On Plastic Surgery

WARNING: INCOHERENT RAGE AHEAD

You know what I've heard a lot lately? People saying things like, "Plastic surgery is for shallow people" and "you should be happy with the way you are".

Now, maybe it's just because this issue affects me directly, but if you think that, I would like to invite you to jump in front of a train and do the gene pool a favor. For, you see, if you hold these beliefs, you are:

Stupidly idealistic and naive
Self-righteous
Selfish
Judgmental
Stupid
Callous
An asshole.

NO EXCEPTIONS. There has never been, and will never be, an exception to this rule. I don't care who you are. Try to tell me you're different and you're lying, because everyone who believes this is exactly the same. This is not a generalization, this is not a rule of thumb, this is the absolute truth.


See, here's what I don't think certain people understand: Not everyone is normal.

I know, that's shocking, isn't it? Not everyone gets to be judged as an equal by society. Not everyone in the entire universe gets the privilege of looking in the mirror and being able to be at least moderately satisfied. Some people out there are considered freaks, you know.

There are a lot of these people out there. And now you're trying to say that they shouldn't be allowed to function normally and be not ostracized because you think that they should be happy with themselves? You're saying that they shouldn't be able to save themselves from depression because you think it's "shallow"? Fuck you.

And then there are people who support reconstructive surgery but not cosmetic surgery are even worse, because they think they're so damn smart. "I wouldn't support it if it were just some girl who thinks her titties would look great bigger, but if someone was a burn victim, sure". That's an easy position to take. I have a question: what about the virtually-fuckin'-infinite gray area between those two? Life isn't all easy questions and happy dilemmas that show you the clear path for the right thing to do.

So the burn victim and the girl with the itty-bitty titties are both after the same thing: they want to look better, and, thus, not feel like shit. Why not? Why can't this girl find a way to not feel like shit?

Hey, what were those things that this country was founded on the right to have? Those things in the Declaration of Independence...what were those? Oh, yeah, I remember, "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Plastic surgery would definitely fall under the heading of "pursuit of happiness", because it's happiness with the way one looks. Or did I miss something? Did it actually say "pursuit of happiness only if it doesn't have anything to do with anything society finds unappealing?" Or is "pursuit of happiness" Farsi for "right to go around imposing rose-tinted idealism on others"?


Please forgive my bias on the subject, it's just that people like the above mentioned leave a badness on my brainmeats. It's a personal issue.