Sugarclaws
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 |  Subject: Plastic Surgery As Art  Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:48 am | |
| http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=48Some excerpts:
- A woman who befriended me near the tummy tuck and boob job display said
of the tucking and boobing surgeon, “He likes to cut up women.” There
was a cut up quality to his choices of pictures- all headless and
legless torsos, each with a scar that looked like the curve of a valley
on a far horizon stretching between their hips, where the pouches they
had carried their children in had been cut away. When he made his women
into art, he made it so they had no heads to think or express, or legs
to run. But he clearly made his women as Perfected as he could, as his
canvas would allow. He made saggy breasts cartoonish in their
constructed opposition to gravity, and pulled the skin back from their
belly buttons aggressively. It reminded me of Hello Kitty, iconically
and algorithmically pleasing, and mouthless.
- I also found myself shopping. No matter how you feel about your body,
you start remaking it a bit looking at this kind of surgery photography.
It’s a little like how you begin to mentally redecorate your house when
reading a certain type of magazine. You just do.
- I can say for sure, despite the criticisms of team imPerfect, the
Surgically Perfected Woman were not spineless and compliant creatures.
They strutted, proud of what they were, showing off the breasts and lips
doctors had created for them with no shame. And it made sense, why work
so hard on your appearance only to be ashamed? I could admire them as
having taken a stand to inhabit a cultural norm with as much fury and
conscious determination as the extreme modders with their facial
tattoos, horns, and metal studs had taken their stand to reject it.
What was your stance on plastic surgery prior to this article? Has anything changed after reading it?
Would you ever? Where/why?
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