I have reread your article. Where exactly do you mention that there's no reason to have surgery if you're content with your body? Your article is full of disparaging remarks: Everything from creating breasts with a more "pleasing appearance" to "if there was ever a reason to get surgery..." to telling women what constitutes an attractive nipple to comparing tuberous breasts to a cleft palate. Are you for real? Cleft palates interfere with feeding, hearing and speech. Surgery can fix that. Tuberous breasts unfortunately go hand in hand with underdeveloped milk glands...which SURGERY DOES NOT FIX. So be it. Some people wear glasses. Some people have to supplement their babies' diet with formula. What else do you classify as a deformity? So if you have short legs, is that also a deformity? What are you going to do? Get leg extensions because long legs have a "more pleasing appearance"? Should black people lighten their skin? Should everybody be a bleach blond? Should we all wear blue contact lenses? Obviously not, but do you get my drift? Who determines what makes for a more "pleasing appearance"?
Beauty comes in many colors, shapes and sizes. Celebrating that fact is true empowerment. Not rationalizing risky surgery in order to conform to someone else's standard.
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I have reread your article. Where exactly do you mention that there's no reason to have surgery if you're content with your body? Your article is full of disparaging remarks: Everything from creating breasts with a more "pleasing appearance" to "if there was ever a reason to get surgery..." to telling women what constitutes an attractive nipple to comparing tuberous breasts to a cleft palate. Are you for real? Cleft palates interfere with feeding, hearing and speech. Surgery can fix that. Tuberous breasts unfortunately go hand in hand with underdeveloped milk glands...which SURGERY DOES NOT FIX. So be it. Some people wear glasses. Some people have to supplement their babies' diet with formula. What else do you classify as a deformity? So if you have short legs, is that also a deformity? What are you going to do? Get leg extensions because long legs have a "more pleasing appearance"? Should black people lighten their skin? Should everybody be a bleach blond? Should we all wear blue contact lenses? Obviously not, but do you get my drift? Who determines what makes for a more "pleasing appearance"?
Beauty comes in many colors, shapes and sizes. Celebrating that fact is true empowerment. Not rationalizing risky surgery in order to conform to someone else's standard.
August 3, 2009 - 2:01pmThis Comment
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