How To Love Your Body In An Obsessed Plastic Culture
In today’s age of clickable truth and blitzes in social media, it’s no secret that the culture of cosmetic surgery thrives as never before. Celebrities and influencers who casually share with their supporters their surgical or injectable journeys. Which contribute significantly to normalizing cosmetic procedures. As does our ability to airbrush our selfies before posting.
If everyone looks perfect and polished, why isn’t anyone supposed to? And if something is being done by everyone, it can’t be hazardous or outrageous, right?
While these issues are not intended in any manner to judge anyone who has selected a cosmetic operation, they are intended to encourage critical thinking.
Although it is true that many cosmetic procedures are not sufficiently invasive to pose. Severe physical hazards, psychological conditions pre-existing and/or concealed psychological hazards are often overlooked or omitted from a debate.
Because cosmetic procedures work to “fix” aesthetic problems (which are mainly subjective), it is not surprising that many patients stay unsatisfied after surgery, even if their procedures have been considered successful. This is because dissatisfaction with one’s appearance tends to come from insecurities— which are inherently inoperable!
Good as new?
While some statistics insist that people are happier after cosmetic surgery. In these studies, one has to wonder how happiness is defined (and experienced). After all, happiness, like beauty, is in the beholder’s eye.
While it’s not easy to break away from societal programming that tells us we’d better look smoother, brighter, tighter, or younger if you really want to cultivate true self-love — including your body’s love.
How Appearance Cultural Obsession Hurts Girls And Women
Appearance-obsessed culture “beauty sick” — referring to “what happens when the emotional energy of women becomes so linked to what they see in the mirror that it becomes more difficult for them to see other aspects of their lives,”
Women and girls involved in social media report an increased incidence of eating disorders, increased symptoms of depression, and increased cosmetic surgery desire.
It was found that 82 percent of college-age women report unfavorably comparing their bodies to the body of a model, and 70 percent of young women say they believe that others would treat them better if they looked more like the idea of beauty they see in the media.
Some celebrities, including Alicia Keys and Katie Holmes, have recently resisted elements of the “beauty-sick” globe by appearing in public and taking selfies without making-up. But the movement against cosmetics remains a niche: the woman has a mean of 40 cosmetic products and spends approximately 55 minutes preparing every day, and more than a half tells us that no product is being prepared in the morning. As a consequence, females are sacrificing time and money that otherwise could be used to pursue objectives in education, career, family, or hobbies.
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