cosemtic surgery over-rated

[Christ_empowered]

I think cosmetic surgery is acceptable, morally...to a point. Rose McGowan (I think that's right...she's the actress from charmed) had a bad car accident and got good plastic surgery to get her face looking good enough so she could keep on working. To me, that's logical and perfectly reasonable.

Now, it can go too far. I had a friend back in the day...he was part Jewish, and his old nose and facial features showed it. He had a mega-session of facial surgery and now he looks more WASP-ish. He is more attractive, but he's also vain and deep into self-help, self-esteem building, etc. But, in that case, the surgery wasn't the only problem; the choice to pursue surgery sprang forth from a messed up, sinful worldview.

I dunno. Society is hard on people, more so women than men, but...still. If you look at the stats, women have surgery more than men. Homosexual men have surgery more often than heterosexual men. More affluent people get surgery more often....I think that's both because they can and also because in some subcultures...women just aren't supposed to age without putting up a fight, lol.

Cosmetic surgery is an understandable reaction to a society that judges us based on appearance and values perma-youth.

I just posted this because...well...to me, its interesting, how the media hypes cosmetic surgery, laser peels, etc., but the end results aren't always all that impressive.

 

[th1b.taylor]

I don't think staying is shape is overrated. I stay in shape to stay healthy. My doctor wants me to. If staying in shape is taken to the extreme then yes, but exercising/eating well for health is generally a good thing.

Hey G-girl,
Solid advice. I am 71 and my favorite lady and best friend is 72. I weigh in at 165 from a working weight of 180 to 190 and remember i am in bed and muscle weighs considerably more than fat. My sweetheart still wears my old work uniforms when she works in my old workshop and looks very, very good in them... much sexier that I ever did. She gave birth to two of my children and except for the normal widening of the hips, caused by child-birth, she looks just as good as she did as a teenager. Neither of us runs anymore and we do not lift weights. She never ran, that was my bag but both of us ate healthy and we enjoyed junk food when desired because we paid attention. Our faces, neither of us look 16 but moma, what a body that woman has. A good Godly life has it's rewards.

 

[jasonc]

Ce point noted.

Even exercising is part of the vanity but it's subjective to how extreme it gets.