Fake boobs
OK, this one isn't about fake boobs per se. I just couldn't come up with a better subject.
We've all seen this one on the news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/health/14implant.html?th&emc=th
So after making lots and lots of women seriously ill, silicon implants were banned but now, because they might not leak, they are being approved again and only the ones manufactured by one particular company. Am I the only one who smells a rat?
While we're on the subject, I gotta talk about this countries obscession with elective surgery. Let me make it clear that I'm not talking about the lady who had a mastectomy or some kid with a cleft palate, I'm talking about normal, healthy people who go get cut, stuffed and rearranged. I admit that I was born with good genes. While I'll never win a beauty contest, I'm no Quasimodo either. I always thought my arms looked too skinny so I started lifting weights, I didn't go have someone stuff big chunks of plastic in me. It took a while and it hurt like hell sometimes but my body feels hard and powerful now, no amount of surgery can give me what lifing weights three times a week did.
What is wrong with our culture that it seems everyone wants to change themselves in some radical way and they don't want to put any work into it? Is it a symptom of our capitalistic society that advertises drugs and makes people believe they are sick just so they can sell the drugs?
I don't know but I think it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets any better.
We've all seen this one on the news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/health/14implant.html?th&emc=th
So after making lots and lots of women seriously ill, silicon implants were banned but now, because they might not leak, they are being approved again and only the ones manufactured by one particular company. Am I the only one who smells a rat?
While we're on the subject, I gotta talk about this countries obscession with elective surgery. Let me make it clear that I'm not talking about the lady who had a mastectomy or some kid with a cleft palate, I'm talking about normal, healthy people who go get cut, stuffed and rearranged. I admit that I was born with good genes. While I'll never win a beauty contest, I'm no Quasimodo either. I always thought my arms looked too skinny so I started lifting weights, I didn't go have someone stuff big chunks of plastic in me. It took a while and it hurt like hell sometimes but my body feels hard and powerful now, no amount of surgery can give me what lifing weights three times a week did.
What is wrong with our culture that it seems everyone wants to change themselves in some radical way and they don't want to put any work into it? Is it a symptom of our capitalistic society that advertises drugs and makes people believe they are sick just so they can sell the drugs?
I don't know but I think it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets any better.
posted by Big Ed at 8:43 AM
6 Comments:
How about this poor bastard?
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;sessionid=E4HR2KFT2H54JQFIQMFCM54AVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2005/04/10/wruss10.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/04/10/ixworld.html
Talk about wearing your heart on your sleeve...
But was it needed? Was he a 'normal healthy person who got cut, stufffed and rearranged"?
Well obviously he did, in spades, but do you think it is the same a a boob job?
I mean, when the medical definition for your weener is 'micro penis', you got some issues.
But was it needed? Was he a 'normal healthy person who got cut, stufffed and rearranged"?
No, I wouldn't call this guy normal. Healthy maybe, although not being able to have sex with a woman would definately affect your health, but not normal.
Glad to have to Chuckie. You just doubled my readership.
I think you are wrong about fake boobs. I think they look good.
So do I but what difference does that make?
Our society has become so obscessed with outward appearance that we believe that ripping a person open and shoving toxic materials in their body is normal and acceptable. The morning show I used to listen to had a saying, "For every beautiful woman, there is a man somewhere who is sick of her shit." You can only spend so much time naked, the majority of the time you have to connect with a person's mind. No amount of silicone and surgery turns an ugly person into a beautiful one where it counts. The "media", for want of a better villian, bombard us on a daily basis with images of "perfect" people and we believe that those are real people.
On the other hand, our instant oatmeal society doesn't want to work out and eat right, that takes time, energy and will power and we're just too damm busy. We want to take a pill, go to sleep and wake up with perfect boobs. We want to have washboard abs in 30 seconds a day. You know what they say, want in one hand and shit in the other.
That being said, we all need a little help from time to time. Modern medicine has made some great strides and there is no reason why it can't be used to improve our lives. As with everything, it should be used with moderation and go toward a goal of overall better health.
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