I know a couple people who get cosmetic Botox regularly, and it genuinely looks good on all of them. They got good doctors.
One person is a close friend who struggles a lot with their body and is anorexic. They do a lot of stuff to look good for their partner, including Botox. They are open with me about their horrible mental health issues.
I know plastic surgeons try to screen and reject people with body dysmorphia, but they do a shit job of it.
Using Botox is a sign that someone isn’t accepting of their body, and refusing that aging is natural/alright. It’s someone giving into the idea that you shouldn’t look wrinkly which just feeds a weird unnecessary culture for everyone to want cosmetic surgery.
It’s not as bad as the cultural normalization of steroids or ozempic, but I wish everybody would push past the need to please others and be happy with their bodies
I thought that was the entire point of plastic surgery, if not for helping mild dysmorphia then what’s the situation where someone would get plastic surgery?
Oh it totally is a sign someone wants to change their looks. I think it has to change at a societal level for you to get individuals to be less interested in it. And it is pervasive. For example, research shows that attractive people are more likely to get promoted into positions of leadership. But that’s just one (albeit weird) place it happens.
What is considered attractive seems to be made up. From small dicks being all the rage in ancient Rome, to obesity being a beautiful sign of fertility all across the world and its history (especially in modern Pacific Island countries), to having black teeth in southern Asia and Meiji Japan being the hottest thing.
Attractive people getting promoted is real and true, but what your culture considers attractive is mostly invented bullshit. Short of primal, instinctual reactions to visible disease and disfigurement on somebody, it seems like anything can be made an “attractive” trait.
American culture loves to promote artists, actors, and entertainers who get plastic surgery and take BGH/Tren/Test/Ozempic. Mainstream industries like Music labels, Social Media platforms, and Movies/TV studios are painting the image of “attractive” to people from the time they are born. I’m not exempt from thinking Chris Hemsworth is attractive, I doubt many Americans are. Except the autists. They’re too mentally transcended.
Getting Botox is falling victim to fake beauty standards, and in a minor way helping perpetuate that standard to the people around you.
I know a couple people who get cosmetic Botox regularly, and it genuinely looks good on all of them. They got good doctors.
One person is a close friend who struggles a lot with their body and is anorexic. They do a lot of stuff to look good for their partner, including Botox. They are open with me about their horrible mental health issues. I know plastic surgeons try to screen and reject people with body dysmorphia, but they do a shit job of it.
Using Botox is a sign that someone isn’t accepting of their body, and refusing that aging is natural/alright. It’s someone giving into the idea that you shouldn’t look wrinkly which just feeds a weird unnecessary culture for everyone to want cosmetic surgery.
It’s not as bad as the cultural normalization of steroids or ozempic, but I wish everybody would push past the need to please others and be happy with their bodies
I thought that was the entire point of plastic surgery, if not for helping mild dysmorphia then what’s the situation where someone would get plastic surgery?
Oh it totally is a sign someone wants to change their looks. I think it has to change at a societal level for you to get individuals to be less interested in it. And it is pervasive. For example, research shows that attractive people are more likely to get promoted into positions of leadership. But that’s just one (albeit weird) place it happens.
What is considered attractive seems to be made up. From small dicks being all the rage in ancient Rome, to obesity being a beautiful sign of fertility all across the world and its history (especially in modern Pacific Island countries), to having black teeth in southern Asia and Meiji Japan being the hottest thing.
Attractive people getting promoted is real and true, but what your culture considers attractive is mostly invented bullshit. Short of primal, instinctual reactions to visible disease and disfigurement on somebody, it seems like anything can be made an “attractive” trait.
American culture loves to promote artists, actors, and entertainers who get plastic surgery and take BGH/Tren/Test/Ozempic. Mainstream industries like Music labels, Social Media platforms, and Movies/TV studios are painting the image of “attractive” to people from the time they are born. I’m not exempt from thinking Chris Hemsworth is attractive, I doubt many Americans are. Except the autists. They’re too mentally transcended.
Getting Botox is falling victim to fake beauty standards, and in a minor way helping perpetuate that standard to the people around you.