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What do you think the popularity of plastic surgery says about our culture?

Specifically, regarding the aesthetics of it. I think people who've had it are scary looking. For example, have you seen photos of Burt Reynolds recently? His face is stretched so tight that it looks like a rubber mask. How could anyone think that looks good? Isn't it better to just be old and ugly and normal, instead of looking like a freak? Do Americans just have bad taste? OK, you all read misunderstood my question. I agree that people have the surgery out of vanity or insecurity. I should have phrased the question like this: Why do people think that it looks good? I am uncomfortable looking at people who've obviously had plastic surgery. I think they look freakish.

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Nope there just absessed with looking good. Not me i just use some proactiv and i think i look good! lol
per capita, Brazil has the most plastic surgery in the world, not the U.S. Otherwise, in answering your question, people are vane. Vanity is the sludge that saturates the average idiotic mind, fed to us from Hollwood. Sure do like those big fake titties, though.
That your culture strives for perfection which is actually a disease. If people are diagnosed with being perfectionists, they are sent for physotherapy- Wait the psycotherapists are getting plastic surgery as well. That spells doom. No one can be perfect.
Many ugly people in our society
I think sometimes it is necessary But I also think a lot of it is for Vanity, And Pride Being ugly is not nice But what counts most is peoples personalities and the way they act with other people. No matter what a person does in the long run the person will still age and show signs of aging which will never stop. A person needs to accept the way they are and try to enjoy life without being so fearful of what people think of there looks, It's whats in a person's heart that really counts
It depends on the circumstances, those that do it to fix something I don't have a problem with. I had my nose done several years ago because it had been badly broken, I don't see that as a problem. But for those that do it for their own vanity to stay 'young looking' or rely on it for perfection need to talk to someone about their 'issues'.
There have been a lot of plastic surgeries go bad and not always do the recipients of these procedures look good afterwards. One of the supermodels from years ago (Hunter Tylo) who can be seen on The Bold and The Beautiful has mutilated her once naturally beautiful face and body. The search for beauty seems to take its toll on society and I personally am not one for the plastic enhancements for myself. I think I will just grow old gracefully and let nature take its course... And I don't think it is that those who choose plastic surgery have bad taste as much as it is their wish to see something in themselves they can't see otherwise. It isn't only Americans either.
I don't think it says much. It's not nearly as popular as you might think. I don't know the percentage, but it is surely very small.
it doesn't really say anything it is just letting people know that you wasn't happy with your self and you wanted some work done that's all
That's just ur opinion. I'm not saying they look good. I'm saying keep ur opinions 2 ur self. I'm bing a jerk either.
I think those people look creepy too. There are some people who have had something done and you can hardly tell but alot of them do look crazy. People should just grow old gracefully and I think that many people actually get better looking as they get older.
i thinks thats for people who are very insecure about there looks and thats sad , cuz you should be happy with what god has giving ya , some people dont even have what you have . they should be thank full
I think that it is a symptom of losing our "God consciousness". People don't think about eternity only the here and now. It's rather ironic when you consider the spiritual picture of people like you mention being reflected in the physical results of their misplaced priorities. It reminds me of the story "The picture of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_Gray In the novel, Gray's portrait ages, while Gray himself appears to remain perpetually youthful.Dorian Gray is described as an extremely handsome individual whose innocence and good looks are the definition of his personality. Lord Henry Wotton's thoughts of Dorian as he first lays eyes on him express this clearly: ...he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely-curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Until Dorian meets Lord Henry, he does not think much about anything, especially his own life and his good looks. Lord Henry convinces Dorian that his looks are in fact his most important virtue and at the same time Lord Henry reminds Dorian that his looks will disappear as he grows older. Dorian takes this conversation very seriously and becomes aware and extremely worried about the fact that his youth is not eternal. When Dorian sees the finished portrait Basil had painted of him, he determines: ...I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June.... If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that! By saying that Dorian sells his soul, much like the title character in Goethe's famous play Faust, his desire for eternal youth soon comes true and the image in the picture ages instead of him. Possessing his desired youth, Dorian's personality begins to change drastically, all due to his relationship with Lord Henry. Dorian's metamorphosis is revealed the night he tells Sybil Vane, an actress with whom he is in love, that his love for her died simply due to her terrible performance as Juliet that evening. The further death of his innocence transpires as he engages in a hedonistic lifestyle, like Lord Henry. He completely transforms himself into a different person and his personality changes. When Basil sees him again he cannot believe that it is the same Dorian he used to paint and immediately begins to try to help Dorian heal himself. Dorian becomes fully corrupt when he then murders Basil. With that act Dorian discards all hope of being saved and chooses to continue his corrupt lifestyle. Although Dorian does not physically age, and his sins are not apparent on his face (it is Oscar Wilde's intent to show that the face of a person directly reflects his personality), they are all fully expressed on the face of the portrait. This makes Dorian aware of how terrible his life really is, but he does not share his secret with others. At the very end of the novel, Dorian realizes how wrong he was to have followed the path set for him by Lord Henry, saying to him "Henry, I have done too many dreadful things in my life. I am not going to do any more." Indeed, Dorian desperately tries to change his lifestyle but, after all the terrible things he's done, it is too late. His attempts at reform are selfish and superficial and ultimately only make the portait more hideous. In the end, Dorian decides to kill his sins and his past by destroying the portrait, but in doing so he kills himself instead. The last sentence in the novel describes the finding of his body near the portrait "When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was."
It reminds me of the Pig People on Twilight Zone.
I have seen both sides of the coin. Some people who have it done look great. I think it starts to look bad when you do it 60 times cause you are contstantly trying to fight old age instead of accepting it and enjoy the years left in life.
Because the issue is not whether you are comfortable with the appearance of others, but that one is accepting and/or comfortable and/or happy with one's own appearance.
There is an empty void in their life and they fill it up with surgery. Same as alcoholics or druggies. Temporary preservation and fulfillment.