miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2008

Resorting to the knife

I understand how feminism encourages women to do what they want, but I just don't agree with it being a cause of this dramatic increase of plastic surgeries on teens and young women. Feminism encourages women to analyze the system, question societal expectations and seek for gender equality and I believe the cause is a rather commercialized and wrong idea of feminism, that is nothing more but male ideals of women. This "perfect" thin, voluptuous & sweet body is nothing more than fragility and vulnerability; and that's not what feminism seeks or promotes. This body makes us objects that look for esthetic and sexual values, rather than thinking and intelligent beings.
Getting breast implants, a liposuction and a nose job might be somebody's greatest dream and desire, but would that really satisfy that person? It is so ingrained in people's minds that we are not even trying to satisfy others, but trying to deny us the chance to be ourselves, to have different natures and fit into what some minority has set as a "norm". Are there skinny women with breasts bigger than a 36C size? Probably, after getting their implants. People tend to ignore it, but the fact is breasts are mostly fat, and disappear when we loose weight, and they get bigger when we gain weight. So these patterns are not exactly real, but who says we're playing a real game?
We are modifying our natures and that is certainly not due to biological causes, but to a powerful drive to fit into created ideals of female attractiveness .
Women are not increasingly doing this to equal men in their ability to do what they want and take a stand for their beliefs, we are hardly thinking when we resort to the knife to feel we are somebody. It is not a bizarre happening; after all we have not been seen in a good way when we try to speak up our minds or do things with our lives and careers that clearly break societal expectations. Trying to match with the beauty canons in our culture is difficult, nevertheless rewarding as we get rid of the burden of being pointed at or sometimes ignored. Still, we are not challenging ourselves and giving us reasons to leave beyond acting for others as we have been conveniently educated to do.

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