I've been pre-processing all the submissions for the update (on Friday I think)… Wanted to share the kooky mail I got (above) as well as the picture below which is 100% real and not doctored at all.
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The debate over in the cosmetic surgery forum is fascinating… Maybe it's because my interest is body modification more so than piercing or tattooing in order to “look the part” of hip young indie-kid or whatever, but I find it truly bizarre that people with tattoos would take issue with a person who wants a boob-job or whatever other cosmetic procedure is out there…
As far as I'm concerned, if there's a procedure that makes a person happier in their body, I say go for it. Get a tattoo, and a bunch of people without tattoos have problems with you. Get “perfect breasts”, and a bunch of people without “perfect breasts” will have problems with you. I mean, I understand that one could worry that someone is getting a “societally perfect” body because other people told them too (that's my only issue with cosmetic surgery — that in some cases it's in effect non-consensual), but it wouldn't be the “societally perfect” body unless a significant number of people genuinely preferred straight teeth, evenly shaped large breasts, or whatever else…
Now, that doesn't mean that you can't be stunningly beautiful at four hundred pounds or without breasts or with a page out of the big book of British smiles for a mouth — what it means is that different people like different things… And maybe instead of saying “oh that's horrible, why would you want to have such perky breasts?”, perhaps a “cool breasts, check out my tattoo, isn't it neat-o?” comment might help us a bit more?
Anyway.
I just think it's really weird that when a lot of people here see a tattoo they're happy for the person, but when they see a nosejob they say stuff like “why can't you just be happy the way you are?” Sadly I think it may be a reflection on why the people asking the question got into tattoos in the first place… a kind of a “better to rule in hell than serve in heaven” kind of self-esteem issue. But I don't want to play pop psychologist today.
If you're on the anti-surgery side, please just think how you feel when people approach you with comments like “oh, tattoos just look so bad… and they really look bad a few years down the road… it's too bad you can't just be happy the way the good lord made you…”
It's interesting — it almost feels like people think it's OK to attack this type of body modification. It's sort of like how you “can” make fun of East Indians on TV and people don't peg you as the racist that you are. Why is that? Do we need a little hypocrisy in part of our lives to keep it out of the rest? Maybe one day a year we should go kill a hobo to keep us polite the rest of the year?
Oh wait, I've revealed too much about my good manners.
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