I don’t hate the people who got cosmetic surgeries done on themselves, but I hate the culture that made them feel like they needed them. I also think it often just doesn’t look good.
Because it perpetuates the myth that you’re somehow a bad person if you show signs of aging.
…there is a myth like that?
Women and men are not supposed to hold the secret to beauty for infinite amount of years, for actors and actresses who are dependent on their looks, they would always have the choice to stop being dependent on their looks or improve their looks.
The choice is not related to any sort of culture, but the consumption choices of consumers.
If a person liked the look of another person in their 20s, they don’t need to like their looks forever in their 40s and 50s.
This feels like not really the reason.
Probably because they look terrible.
I think it might be similar to CGI in movies: you do not notice those good ones, they blend in and look natural. But you DO notice those that went wrong or way too far.
Yep. The “Uncanny Valley” is deep, and it is not limited to robots and mannequins.
Can’t say I’m proud of my reaction, but it is what it is.
- It makes the person look uncanny, which is naturally unsettling
- I can’t empathize with the decision to surgically change your body for whatever reason. So we’re less likely to relate to each other.
It’s also really not that high on the scale of seriousness. It’s like the same weight as if I saw you wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey or something.
Do they hate it? I mean, not liking something does not mean hating that something (I don’t like bananas, I’m fine with people eating them and have never campaigned to ban bananas from our tables, not even from mine ;).
And if they do hate it, why would that be an issue? Why does it matter?
The reason I am asking is because I saw a lot of women who look great after surgeries and I see nothing wrong with them, but when I browse Reddit I see people hating on them so hard, why?
I find most ‘cosmetic’ plastic surgery… rather not cosmetic at all, to be 100% honest and I often find the end result a lot less pleasing than the original version was, but people are free to do what they like with their own body whether I like or not—exactly like I’m free to not like it, and say it.
I see a difference between e.g. restorative cosmetic surgery, e.g. after an accident on one hand, and creating cow tits and Mar-a-Lago lips on the other.
Excess vanity is not a good look.
It is really a class issue. Elective cosmetic surgery can be tough to get covered under insurance. So it is an economic thing. Millions of people on SNAP while the elite play with aging and off label prescription medication usage.
I don’t think people respond to it that way, but I think that there is something there.
There was a meme about ten years ago that went around showing a lot of celebrities before and after cosmetic surgeries with the caption “you’re not ugly, just poor” and that seems to align pretty closely with your sentiment.
and i am both ugly and poorly
And taking the time off work to recover is unrealistic for working class
Because they are hypocritical
Pretty much everyone mocks men that get hair transplants.
I know this is not what people want to hear, but at least one aspect of it is misogyny.
There was this recent clip of Kate Beckinsale going around and people went batshit over how she had ruined her beautiful looks. The thing is, she definitely had things done before, just go look up pictures of her when she started her career. She was beautiful even then but in a more “normal” way. And no one was outraged or concerned for her then. But now she dares to not be as beautiful as she was before. People have a right to see her be hot!
Don’t get me wrong, I wish there wasn’t such a pressure for people to look perfect and have work done. But I think a huge part of the outrage is actually men feeling that they have a right to decide how a woman should look.
How does that rhyme with increasingly many men also being obsessed by their looks and more and more having surgery done? Hair implants are on the edge of surgery and very common for men. So are nosejobs, eyelids correction, eyebrows raising etc.
While some hatrid is probably misogyny, I have the feeling the divide between people liking “corrective” surgery and those who don’t is more like the age old difference between “high culture” and “folk culture”.
My personal opinion: it’s usually ugly. Almost always do I find it ugly. Chances are I find a naturally aged person 40-65yo more beautiful than ones where it’s super obvious they had stuff done. Especially the trend of getting stuff done super obviously really makes my stomach twist. The natural looking older people to me often just emit a “i’m only human”, “i’m nice” vibe while the overedited body (including having supermany tattoos by the way) usually just screams insecurity, uncertainty, … at me.
And excluding things like corrective surgery after accident or making boobs smaller because of backaches: I find plastic surgery just for the thrill of it an enormous waste of healthcare resources, while many people can’t afford the most basic of health care.
Depends on who you ask. But I can see why it goes against the values of various groups.
I don’t hate it, your body your choice. In excess it looks silly but I don’t have to look.
There was a time, when it was actively pushed onto women, and also people made fun of really bad ones on the internet later on, so plastic surgery became synonymous with weird oversized breasts and duck beak lips.
1000% preference. Like fake tans, comestic surgery items like “Bolted on tits”, lip fillers, and fake muscles look weird and unnatural. To me it looks like a slightly deformed human and instinct says stay away from that. However, I have cowokers who love that stuff. If there is a time in future where it looks more natural id probably more for it.
you don’t notice it if it looks natural
That’s an argument many pro cosmetic surgery folks say. Just like I prefer a good burger versus a bad one, if you could guarantee the same standard on every human then its just a money thing. I did quite a bit of research 10 years ago and it seemed it wasn’t worth it when I spoke to professionals then. Im certain it will improve as time goes on. But at my age going to be like putting new lights in a haunted mansion 😅
Unless what you are saying is some people want to others to notice like the human Ken doll. After watching him talk in a documentary that guy screams “I needs therapy”. He literally said he wouldnt do this if everyone did it. It’s not healthy to mutilate yourself for attention mate.
Agreed. I touched a pair of tits once that had implants, but you couldn’t tell just by looking.
Function >> Form
It’s useless to paint your skin to make it look like something healthy, when the body’s insides are not really so.
And if I am going to pay an exorbitant amount of money to have an extra layer of skin, it better be giving me
+10 slash/pierce resist.
