Make Me Perfect
I’ve just watched an episode of this programme, in horror, wondering if it’s possible that such a programme can exist. All of the participants are women, which is still sending out the message that women have to be physically attractive otherwise they are somehow a failure.
Of course it follows in the wake of plenty of other programmes of a similar nature and is far from the only perpetrator of crimes against women.
The woman I saw in the programme looked okay to me. Maybe she could do with a good haircut, but instead she was subjected to hours of painful surgery, to “corrective”dental treatments and a appointment at tattoo removal London before finally being allowed to sit in the hairdresser’s chair and finally the make-up artists.
What really galls me about such programmes is the way that they carry the message that if we don’t like something about ourselves, we can fix it very quickly by going under the knife. Cosmetic surgery is a boom industry, yet we are not asking ourselves why we are so unhappy with our appearances. We are not asking ourselves what the psychological cause of our misery actually is.
There is an emphasis that youth is beautiful. It might be of course, but getting older can be too. There’s a lot to be said for the older person who is happy in their own skin, who gives off confidence and is at peace with themselves. That to me is attractive. Intelligence, experience and wisdom are also assets that should be celebrated.
Someone who is cut and stapled and frozen into an expressionless being does not say attractive to me. People who have surgery tend not to look younger, they tend to look like people who have had surgery, and that to me screams, “I’m not happy with myself.”This kind of thing encourages body dysmorphia and eating disorders and where are the attractions and self-acceptance in those conditions?
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