La chirurgie esthétique n'amélire pas (toujours) la confiance en soi. This is the text of a current TV commercial for breast augmentation, spoken by a beautiful, thin, middle-aged woman looking at herself in a mirror.
She is telling the lie that nearly every woman that undergoes this expensive, life-threatening, time-consuming surgery is told and soon comes to believe for herself. “I did it for ME.” It’s time to debunk these ever-circulating excuses about the values of this surgery for the 300,000+ U.S. girls and women who undergo it each year. Let’s talk about WHY breast enhancement surgeries are halting female progress and keeping us in the prison of believing we are “to be looked at” above all else. Using the four excuses from the ad above, it’s time spell out why breast implants are not “for you.” Breast augmentation does not improve your self-esteem.
If you have undergone or are planning to undergo breast augmentation surgery to “feel better about your body,” research shows us this just won’t work. Yikes. Mental Power: Social Power: Physical Power: Breast Implants Linked to Higher Suicide. Women who undergo breast augmentation surgery are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide, according to a study published in the August issue of Annals of Plastic Surgery.
This research confirms previously seen links between breast implants and a high risk of suicide, as well as deaths from alcohol or drug dependence. The study, led by senior author Joseph McLaughlin and Loren Lipworth, both cancer epidemiologists with the Vanderbilt- Ingram Cancer Center, documented the increased suicide risk. This risk suggests plastic surgeons should consider mental health screening and follow-up for women who seek breast implants. Lipworth and colleagues performed an extended followup study of 3,527 Swedish women who underwent cosmetic breast-implant surgery between 1965 and 1993. At an average follow-up of nearly 19 years, the suicide rate was three times higher for women with breast implants as compared to the general population (based on 24 deaths) . © 2014 Vanderbilt University. La beauté comme priorité : et soudain, le mur.
Belle toute nue, belle ceci, belle cela : je ne sais pas pour vous, mais je viens d'atteindre mon point de saturation, ce qui signifie que cet article sera partiellement écrit en MAJUSCULES.
Tout a commencé avec deux campagnes récemment très applaudies : -> A Beautiful Body Project, -> Le défilé Rick Owens. A la base, deux manières d'aider les femmes à s'accepter même quand elles ont des torts graves comme : avoir accouché, être noire / musclée / pas moulée dans une taille 34. Et c'est là que j'ai envie de répondre : -> TU VIENS DE METTRE UN ETRE HUMAIN AU MONDE. -> Deuxio, tu es UNE DANSEUSE SOLIDE ET FAROUCHE dont le défilé met quand même des FRISSONS tellement ça sent la PUISSANCE. Ceci est exactement ce qu'on appelle l'objectification. La réduction au cosmétique, encore et toujours. You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. So the other day, folks in the comments were talking about leggings.
I'm pretty agnostic about leggings, but the whole discussion (which centered on the fact that it can be *really* hard to look good in leggings) got me thinking about the pervasive idea that women owe it to onlookers to maintain a certain standard of decorativeness. Now, this may seem strange from someone who writes about pretty dresses (mostly) every day, but: You Don't Have to Be Pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. I'm not saying that you SHOULDN'T be pretty if you want to.
Docu Arte - Je suis grande, et alors ? Pondu par Fab le 25 janvier 2014 Pour occuper votre week-end, profitez de ce génial documentaire sur les filles grandes, celles qui attirent le regard parce qu’elles font « plus d’1m80 ».
On avait déjà reçu le témoignage d’une madmoiZelle d’1m80 il y a quelques années, qui nous racontait la difficulté d’être aussi grande dans notre société. Ce documentaire diffusé sur Arte hier soir s’intéresse de plus près à des femmes grandes, voire très grandes — Lisa mesure par exemple 1m98 à 16 ans. (merci à Klimts pour l’info !) Ça vous a plu ? Ne ratez aucun article de madmoiZelle.com ! Inscrivez-vous à notre newsletter et recevez notre actu deux fois / semaine Cet article a été pondu par Fab - Tous ses articles Fab est le papa de madmoiZelle.com, lancé le 1er octobre 2005, ce jour saint où il a également conçu ce qui sera sa première fille (coïncidence ? Tous les articles Moi, moi et moi Les autres papiers parlant de Arte, Documentaire, Nique les complexes !