Plastic Surgery: a generational divide?

[roseembolism]

I was surprised when I mentioned My Beautiful Mommy on rpg.net, mainly because of the reaction.  The vast majority of people there had no real problems with the book, and were either enthusiastic about the idea of plastic surgery for themselves, or were annoyed that people cared about what other people did to themselves.  

It's weird; I'm feeling like there's a generational gap in attitudes toward plastic surgery, with the younger generation being much more accepting of using drastic methods to seriously mold one's appearance on a large scale. They frame it in terms of individuality, and compare it to dying one's hair.  the actual risks are handwaved away.

 It leads me to think that now body image issues are so integrated that they are seen not as a problem, but as a normal lifestyle element..  In other words, if the dresses in the store don't fit you, it's not the fault of the designer, you need to shape yourself because YOU are wrong.

I honestly feel like I've wandered into the world of Logan's Run.

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[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

There was a plastic surgeon out in LA, I believe, who specialized in reshaping women's posteriors to look like those of various Hollywood hotties. He got his license revoked for skeevy medical practices, iirc. But it's sort of frightening to think that there are people willing to do that to themselves.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

The real world might end up something like World of Warcraft character creation, where there is one body type, six or so face types, and the same number of hair arrangements. The only way you'll be able to tell your date from the hundreds of other people at the mall who look like him, is by locating him with a GPS tracker.