Blog 6 "Cosmetic Surgery"

In Debra Gimlin's essay, "Cometic Surgery: Paying for Your Beauty", she informs the readers that plastic and cosmetic surgery did not have the same purpose as it does today. It used to be used on soldiers that had got injured in war and in battles. It would help cover up the scars and try to maintain their looks from before their injury. Women caught on to this and wanted to start chaning the way they looked to the ideal women. This is increasingly growing into an acceptable norm now and many women are turning to plastic and cosmetic surgery.
I have mixed feelings about cosmetic surgery. There are some people who were born with a deformity of some kind, there are those who have had an accident and something on their body was altered. I think that if these individuals feel so unconfident about themselves and have a low self esteem then they should get the surgery. I will never judge those who have had cosmetic surgery because I will never know their true intentions for having it. That being said, i feel like not everyone needs surgery for things they can ultimately fix themselves, or reasons of just wanting to do to look like someone else or to be skinny when they are clearly not overweight. I think that physical beauty is too much of a focus in our society. So many people are trying to conform to what our society says is acceptable. Whether it be weight, breasts or flawless skin. i think that everybody was made how they were supposed to be made. If you want to be skinner, go to the gym and work out a little more. There is nothing wrong with curves. I think that it is an individual opinion on the idea. Women feel horrible about themselves because society feeds into us that we are supposed to look like the perfect women (Which only like 5%, or something ridiculous like that, of the women actually fit into that category), so we get the plastic surgery which just reinforces society that that is the way we are supposed to look. Its like which came first the chicken or the egg.