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 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.
It’s self mutilation in response to a mental illness cause by societal pressures and misogyny. Chopping up your face to appear younger, should not be something anyone feels the need to do.
Not all cosmetic surgery is this. Helping burn victims or people who have suffered injuries, nothing wrong with any of that. There’s lots of legitimate reasons for cosmetic surgery to exist. But so much of it is the symptom of a broken society.
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.
Vast majority is unnecessary and winds up looking worse.
i wonder if there are more “good” ones that simply go unnoticed
Oh, for sure.
Then does that change your first reply…?
Is your answer based on any real data at all or just feels?
Nope. Not one bit
Citation needed.
Laura Loomer. Jere Burns. Stallone. Priscilla Presley. Seen Carrot Top lately. Maybe Lil Kim. How about Burt Reynolds. The entire Jenner family. List goes on and on. I have no idea what citation you want besides my own eyes. And please note I’m talking about plastic surgery. Not reconstructive.
I will counter with Martha Stewart, Helena Bonham Carter, Courtney Cox, and I’m sure so many more who really look like they have had face/neck lifts but just look good.
My daughter says she hates it because it means money can make you look better.
I kind of like that though - it is more democratic than “natural beauty” being the standard. If beauty is something you do or buy, maybe people think it’s cheating, but how is that worse than it being luck?
Don’t imagine I’ll ever have enough $ to want to spend it on cosmetic surgery, but I knew a lady with bad skin tone - she had a baby and was overweight, lost the weight but her torso skin stayed stretched out, all saggy. She got a tummy tuck and boob lift and holy cow it looked amazing, she felt so good about her body and said “it cost as much as a car but I will drive my body much longer than my car.”. Nobody is going to convince me that’s a bad thing that she ought not have done. She wasn’t disfigured before, she did it to look good and she sure did.
Every person owns their own body and should modify it however they want. I am not against even creative cosmetic surgery, you want elf ears, go for it. And I do not think ugly people are under any obligation to get modified so that they look “better” either. Whatever the individual wants, it is their call. This is one situation where I really feel it is not my business at all.
It often makes people look terrible
Yup. Lip injections? Quack quack.
gee I don’t know, maybe it’s because these poster children are bonkers?
For me, I find it sad. There is so much pressure on people (especially women) to look a certain way. I find beauty in uniqueness. When a certain “look” becomes fashionable, you see a lot of people get the same face. Then, you see people get “addicted” to the surgeries, and end up looking totally alien.
The buccal fat removal trend is going to age like milk.
I will tell you from personal experience it sure makes you feel a certain way when your insurance denies a treatment for a life-threatening condition and that same system says that unnecessary treatments are a fine use of resources.
have you tried being richer? i hear that drastically changes how your insurance feels about your operations.
Cosmetic or elective procedures aren’t covered by insurance though. If you mean resources like doctors, I agree somewhat, but insurance denying/underpaying/jamming access to essential procedures to force profit is a separate issue, and a much bigger one.
Some cosmetic procedures are covered. Eg, reconstructive surgery after a car crash.
For health reasons, nothing to object. For pure vanity, it makes no sense.
Vanity is cringe enough even without literally chopping yourself up in its pursuit.
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.
Probably because they look terrible.
They hate 'em cause they ain’t 'em. Most cosmetic surgery looks good, and you just don’t notice it. And then these people get treated nicer and go farther in life, because good looking people garner more support and sympathy than less good looking people.
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.
