![]() ![]() Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck.".Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. “Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic." Even the names trivialize what it is. #Cutting Quotes #Space Quotes #Roles Quotes As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.”. They pay their money and they takes their chances. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage women get cut open. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. “Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. #Attitude Quotes #Choices Quotes #Body Quotes “I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.”. #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Resilience Quotes “Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.”. #Self Esteem Quotes #Men Quotes #Body Quotes “Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”. #Hurt Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Teaching Quotes In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.”. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. ![]() It prevents men from actually seeing women. “Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. #Self Esteem Quotes #Real Quotes #Equality Quotes “Women who love themselves are threatening but men who love real women, more so.”. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”. “We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. #Fashion Quotes #Imitation Quotes #Photograph Quotes “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.105, Random House “We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women”. #Struggle Quotes #Age Quotes #Done Quotes New possibilities for women quickly become new obligations.”. We have not yet reached the age in which we can defend ourselves with an unwillingness to have "anything" done. “Today, women have access to the technological capacity to do anything to our bodies in the struggle for "beauty", but we have yet to evolve a mentality beyond the old rules, to let them imagine that this combat among women is not inevitable. #Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes ![]() “A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.”. #Bad Ass Quotes #Mad Quotes #Political Quotes Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history a quietly mad population is a tractable one.”. “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. #Beauty Quotes #Women Quotes #Independent Quotes “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”. “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.139, Random House So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual-and hence social-confidence while undermining that of women.”. “To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. ![]()
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