Definitely another avenue to critique it. After all, beauty is always constructed socially and the pressure of unattainable norms can drive all sorts of tragic behavior. I had things like eating disorders in mind (so trying to look like someone who did plastic surgery but doesn’t say as much), but the pressure to conform can lead to other tragic outcomes as well.
To be clear: nothing ontologically wrong with plastic surgery - go get giant boobs or lipo or Botox. We should affirm people’s desire to shape their body as they wish. But the motive can be either empowering or tragic and that’s like, I think, where the capitalist hellscape and advertising/culture can rear their head in a real way.
Agreed. I was mostly just posting I guess a preemptive selfcrit here because I was one of the upbears 😓 I want to say I had that more charitable reading of an otherwise offensive sentiment in mind when doing so but it’s just as likely I was projecting my own perspective i described above on garden variety chauvinism I was too sloppy to recognize and I don’t want to give the illusion that I support that. I feel a bit silly for it but I will own that
Definitely another avenue to critique it. After all, beauty is always constructed socially and the pressure of unattainable norms can drive all sorts of tragic behavior. I had things like eating disorders in mind (so trying to look like someone who did plastic surgery but doesn’t say as much), but the pressure to conform can lead to other tragic outcomes as well.
To be clear: nothing ontologically wrong with plastic surgery - go get giant boobs or lipo or Botox. We should affirm people’s desire to shape their body as they wish. But the motive can be either empowering or tragic and that’s like, I think, where the capitalist hellscape and advertising/culture can rear their head in a real way.
Agreed. I was mostly just posting I guess a preemptive selfcrit here because I was one of the upbears 😓 I want to say I had that more charitable reading of an otherwise offensive sentiment in mind when doing so but it’s just as likely I was projecting my own perspective i described above on garden variety chauvinism I was too sloppy to recognize and I don’t want to give the illusion that I support that. I feel a bit silly for it but I will own that