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Wednesday, July 23, 2003

re: feminists 

Posted by Nick : 11:37 AM

America has a kind of fascination with plastic surgery, as ABC's new "Extreme Makeover" proves. Teenagers are getting some kinds of plastic surgery, including breast implants, as early as 18. But most high-tech beauty treatments, from botox to silicone to microdermabrasion, are just science's best stab at the ageless obsession with youth and sex appeal. A boob job is certainly safer than eating arsenic or removing ribs, things earlier generations of women did for beauty.

Activist Hollywood, being one of the industry's biggest customers, probably won't be standing by their friends at NOW on this one. Jane Fonda and Demi Moore may play tough girls on the screen, and they have plenty to say about reproductive rights and the evils of big industry, but the activists got themselves pumped up full of silicone or saline too. Thanks to a pushup bra, Angelina Jolie can be a fierce Lara Croft with her breasts padded to videogame dimensions.

Feminists always wanted women to control their own bodies. Doesn't this count?

This argument completely stupifies me. Due to the existence of ABC's "Extreme Makeover" (my rant against can be found here) we should conclude that plastic surgery is a healthy thing for society? Yet can't we all agree that "Extreme Makeover" is an entirely bad thing, and therefore any society which builds from its example is on the wrong track?

Here's hoping that feminism pulls itself together to counter the totally asinine logic found on Opinionjournal.com.
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