http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvZxCH2wOQM
As technology advances, more and more people are tempted to have plastic surgery. This is a new social trend in the modern society where people believe physical appearance is directly related to forming impression. Because today people tend to judge other’s characteristic by the way they look at first, many people in these days believe appearance is one of the most important abilities in success, spending a lot of time and money on taking care of their appearance.
The video I linked is one of a cosmetic plastic surgery commercial. A doctor first says good looking people have more fun, make more money, and have more looking good friends. And People ultimately look your face and determine if you are ugly. Then, with a lively music playing, two female patients describe how amazingly their life changed after the operations. One got a new job and boyfriend and another got the confidence to live good life now. It sounds like their life has completely changed since they underwent the surgeries and it seems like it can even change everyone’s life positively if we have better look.
People today believe physical appearance enormously influences their life over the relationship with others, marriage, job, promotion, and so on. Physical attractiveness becomes an effective means to express their personality traits and identities. For these reasons, people are easily forced to lose weight and even to go on surgery table in order to form good impressions and to survive in theses tough society. I personally believe better looking will give you more opportunities to success in life. It’s not a key, but it’s important. It’s not everything, but it’s necessary in this society.
As I looked around the Internet last night, I found a blog about facial surgery given to a teenage girl because she was being bullied. The ethics of performing certain facial surgery on teens concerns me, because as a teenager one’s face has not fully matured. Sometimes the corrections are medically advised. Realistic expectations are important, as are the motivations for surgery. Surgery can help with self esteem, but hopefully all factors are considered. Surgery is not a panacea and I believe that informed and thoughtful guidelines must be observed during a consultation. I will provide a free consultation to help you access the viability and need for such surgery here at Little Rock Cosmetic Surgery Center. I believe ethics are important.
Nowadays good looking face is sure important. Let’s take an example, I am a young college student female. I seldom wear a make up, since I feel more comfortable by not putting make up on my face or I don’t have time to put make as I rush to my morning Sociology class. But when I put make up, I get more warm attention from my surroundings, let it be a cab driver, other fellow students or even a professor. People judge on how you look, and it is sad, that you can’t really impress others with what you have in your brains. For example, for half a year I lived a life where I wanted to test a society on how they respond on my looks. I created an image of two people. One that would fit a society, another that would not fit the societal norms.
First image was of a young college girl, that would wear nice clothes and put a make up, and have a pleasant personality. Well, it is what I was previously and now I am. Second image was a young college female geek wearing glasses, and having clothing covered in some kind of fun paint, wearing long pants and no make up at all, just a lipstick time to time. Who do you think people would come and wanted to talk to? Of course, the first personality. On the second image, people laughed, and would not take conversations serious.
This experiment was my personal proof that people judge on the way you look. Even though if a girl is dumb, but wearing nice clothing, people would be attracted to her, and start conversations, although she has anything to say smart. People judge. Unfortunately, I couldn’t live double personality roles, so I realized I have to fit this society, and can’t change it’s norms. I took off the glasses, hid the fun painted pants, and now wear skirts and put make up to fit this society.
Regarding the surgery, I believe everything has to have a balance. If there is a wrinkle, and it is bothering, sure a woman can allow herself to do a little trick and feel herself confident. But when it is not enough, it will never be enough. People have destroyed their lives to try to fix their “wrinkles” surgery after surgery. I believe as more natural you look the better it is. Anyway, we are all humans, and aging is a process we need to accept and respect.
Psychologists and sociologists have repeatedly argued that attractive people make more money. So, appearance is an important thing in a career.
However, appearance as a “weapon” can not only help in a career, but also could destroy it no matter how professional the person is. It is paradoxical, but there is a term called discrimination on the beauty. The employers are often skeptical about the professional knowledge of beautiful woman or attractive man. Sometimes the beautiful people are excluded from the list of candidates for the position. Potential employers fear that their appearance will distract colleagues from the working process.
Sometimes beautiful people have a hard time in communication not only with their bosses, but with their colleagues as well. They are thinking that beautiful women could not be professionals and they are successful in the career just because of their appearance. Therefore their coworkers don’t easily forgive their mistakes and biased to any success of attractive person.
I think the person don’t have to look as a Hollywood celebrity in order to succeed in a career. In the business world intellectual potential of the human is worth more than the attractiveness.
But the intellect could not fully abolish the appearance.
I think for the successful career it is more important to present the appearance skillfully and less important the appearance that given to individual by nature. Moreover, people are successful in their career if they could competently manage all resources: time, confidence, knowledge and, of course, appearance.
So, if a person can competently present his appearance and professionalism, than he is on “the way to success”.
I personally think it’s a shame that people go as far as reconstructing their face in order to “feel” attractive. Though, I understand that a society places a huge burden for individuals to have the need to feel attractive, however the certain actions that are taken is a disgrace. In today’s world, with all the “beautiful” faces we see on magazine covers, advertisement posters, and in movies, there’s no question we’re made to believe that if we’re not attractive we won’t achieve our goals in life, and unfortunately in most cases that may be true. However, going as far as plastic surgery isn’t going to change nor justify what society has created. Therefore, in my opinion I believe it all comes down to what a person consciously thinks of themselves when they look at themselves in the mirror.
For instance, we know that those who seek in plastic surgery are trying to enhance their appearance in order to live a better life; a life of wealthy, success, and good fortune. However, in most cases those who seek plastic surgery are able to afford the outrageous cost that come along. Furthermore, based on what society has caused us to believe, only those who are wealthy are those who are attractive looking, therefore those who are able to afford plastic surgery aren’t unattractive because they couldn’t afford to surgery to begin with, consequently they “feel” unattractive. In short, this allows me to believe that those who try to enhance their appearance with plastic surgery aren’t doing so in order to live a better life, there doing so because they’re unhappy with the lives they already live.
Was this commercial for real? I was really laughing the whole time. I hope that was a joke.. otherwise I think we should all be worried for our species. He cannot be an actual plastic surgeon.
Anyways, I feel that society has always overestimated beauty. Now that I think about it, the concept of “pretty” and “ugly” has always been introduced at such an early age. I remember watching and idolizing many Disney Princesses as early as 4 years old. Disney Princesses were always, without a fail, depicted as perfect beauties- perfect tiny waists, tall and lean, beautiful long hair, many of them white.. Good characters are usually portrayed as being pretty or handsome while the bad characters tend to be shown as ugly, old, and/or overweight. Therefore young children may begin to associate beauty with warmth and affection while what may be considered as ugly is often associated with evil. In a way, children we were trained to actually “judge a book by its cover” without even realizing it. It’s no wonder why so many girls are so cruel and heartless towards their peers..
Young girls begin to drift away from Disney Princesses and Barbies but are then introduced to pop singers and teen celebrities such as Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Lindsay Lohan.. where body image becomes a major issue for young girls. Adult women are then exposed to further influential sources such are “Extreme Makeover” on ABC, “Nip/Tuck on FX and “Dr. 90210” on E. The vicious cycle of society promoting beauty and plastic surgery is never ending. It’s come to the point in which a nose job is considered a small tweak when in fact its a risky surgery like any other.