"I think the smartest, and most evil, thing the corporate geniuses that marketed plastic surgery ever did was wrapping up these desires for idealised beauty as not being about conformity, but about confidence. I’m sure you’ve heard the sell that these invasive and risky procedures are simply about giving people back confidence in their bodies. Suddenly it’s no longer about selling people something they don’t need, but putting them on the road to self-actualisation.
…The problem with this argument is that confidence is a state of mind, so something that you to a certain extent can control. You can be equally confident with A-cups as you can with D-cups so long as you’ve come to the viewpoint that both are equally valid and beautiful ways of looking, or even better yet that you don’t particularly care whether your bra size is the societal ideal. This expectation that we should all be good looking is not only oppressive, but a complete waste of money and mental energy… I don’t want a future where we’re happy to risk our health so we can all look like a string of identical paper dolls. Symmetry might be beautiful, but it can also be boring.
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