#cosmetic surgery critical

[pillarsalt]

[vouam]

Honestly when I hear people say “not receiving gender affirming surgeries will make me feel suicidal” I hear the same thing as if someone said “if I don’t get a nose job I’ll feel suicidal”

It’s a physical insecurity that wouldn’t exist in a vacuum. I’m sorry that you were influenced to feel this way, but surgery will not fix something that is rooted in self-hatred. If you change it with surgery, you will find another insecurity to fixate on within a week.

Also, can we talk about how rebranding gender affirming surgery as some life-saving procedure is just promoting and glamorising a very misogynistic and corrupt industry.

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

if you don't want people to bind for years because of dangers to ribs and lungs, you should be advocating for easier access to top surgery...

Lmao as if top surgery doesn’t come with its own risks. You might as well say ‘shapewear isn’t good, so what women should get is liposuction :) ’. How about coming to peace with your body? Whatever happened to that?

[uncanny-tranny]

I know I've talked about this before, but as somebody with Strong features who has been mocked for it, it really infuriates me when people bully others for changing their strong features through surgery instead of criticizing beauty culture, you know, a big issue as to why people with strong or ethnic features are often bullied or even discriminated against. When you bully people for altering their appearance through surgery, you may just be victim-blaming somebody. Beauty culture is the issue, not somebody using their bodily autonomy as they see fit.

[familyabolisher]

i think if you're going to get big mad at me in my notes over a version of my post that you just made up then you should at least check to make sure that your complaint isn't the literal first thing i addressed in the reblog that for some reason isn't circulating anymore

[fivestrandbraid]

‘You either believe in bodily autonomy or you don’t’

Sure but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t analyze the reasons people make the decisions they do like….

[pillarsalt]

[watercreature]

guys seriously i cant believe we’re arguing about cosmetic surgery. there’s nothing wrong with your body! when we start acting like our bodies are play dough figurines to mould we disconnect from ourselves! they are encouraging insecurities to make money off of you getting these surgeries like i thought you guys were anti capitalist yeesh

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

these ppl forget the surgery has the risk of never being able to raise your arms above your head again. how are they about pro body positivity until its about having boobs, then its alright to hate yourself and your body for it.

Exactly

[slugpussy]

oh EW why was this very adamant radfem blog in my orbit??

[skypalacearchitect]

sorry we r not going to openly admit that the plastic surgery preys on young women and gives them lifelong insecurities on purposeto make money off them

and then in the same breath say but we should ignore that and let it keep happening

bc arguing against it might give ppl who r already transphobes another excsue to hide behind. like what!!

stop doing their work for them stop handing over these entire issues to their cause!!

the issues dont go away ur just givibg them more ammunition if u refuse to address it!!

what do u think is gonna happen if all the libs r like uuuh no sorry the plastic surgery industry is good actually

while conservatives r like no its a predatory industry

if we arent the ones to make the distinction that conservatives r using legitimate broad issuesto hide their bigotry behind

then no one else is gonna make the distinction either

and young girls who r harmed day after day by misogyny in societyr gonna grow up thinking the only allies they have r with fucking moms for liberty or fucking whatever

or if theyre smarter than that. that they have no allies at all.

why do we keep ceding feminist issues to transphobes fucking why it isnt helping anyone!!!

Look. I’m going to be honest with you. Adopting that hard anti-plastic surgery stance while trans people’s lives and right to transition is at stake is absolutely horrendous timing. Knock it off.

[rpgbabe]

what that post is saying is not that people with bbls and botox today are hypocrites for decrying corsets.. it's saying the people who should be criticizing current-era barbarisms (whether or not they engage in them) choose to focus on barbarisms of the past instead? we don't have to neglect the fact that corsets and in general the dress and treatment of women in the past was a problem.. but maybe we start with what's literally happening all around us and being pushed in our face 24/7 TODAY in 20 fucking 24. like how can we nitpick about the beauty expectations of women a century or two ago when we're arguably even worse now.... it's about the irony.... it's not saying you can't criticize corsets and equally criticize excessive surgery + makeup practices of today.. it's saying.. why would you pick one? and, at that, the lesser one.

[ahkwewa-ihkwewa]

Always grounding talking to other women about bullshit misogyny in the current day, and once you rock the boat just a bit they find that it’s ok to speak their minds freely

Also can’t believe my roommate seemed genuinely surprised that individuals would transition for fetish-based reasons

[snjzjdnsksoeoels]

Some of y'all try to be sooooo liberal that you literally circle right back around to conservative ideology and you don't even realize it

[sqoks-aesthetics]

FINALLY someone put into words what ive been feeling about this shitty fucking argument 'maybe YOU have a problem with someone getting off to beating their partner but they ~consented~ so ur Wrong and just a Evangelical Christian Puritan who needs to stay in their lane uwu' cool argument. its still abuse. you are using sexual gratification as a justification for literal abuse and domestic violence and its 100% valid and moral to call that out actually!

One of the ways in which modern liberalism goes wrong in ethics is its singular focus on consent. Don’t get me wrong, consent is always necessary is any type of relation or exchange between individuals, but it isn’t sufficient.

This is why modern liberals will see nothing wrong with bdsm, pornography, surrogacy, or cosmetic surgery. “If both parties consent, then what’s the problem?” they’ll say.

There needs to be ethical standards for how we treat other people, regardless of if individuals think they are worthy of being treated by those standards. This concept is already recognized in most legal systems. If I sign a form saying that you can kill me whenever you feel like it, you would still be culpable for murder if you followed through.

Women are the ones who lose out when this concept is not applied. We have been conditioned to believe that we are not worthy of being treated right, so we allow others to take advantage of us. Consent being by the only moral consideration people care about takes advantage of this fact.

[venusgrl]

words fail to describe the second hand embarrassment i feel in my body when i see a feminist criticize something like sex work, makeup, cosmetic surgery, etc and someone comes up and says “isn’t feminism supposed to be about women’s choices :((” or something adjacent to that, and then we have to remind everyone that no, feminism is about FEMALE LIBERATION and not what makes YOU feel comfortable as an individual. with the rise of liberal feminism we’ve forgotten that feminism is a political movement and it’s not meant to be fun. it’s supposed to question and tear apart what’s seen as the status quo for women. if you can’t handle even the smallest criticism of things that you as a woman enjoy and take part in then feminism simply isn’t for you