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ItsMargo wrote:If she had wanted a nose job I imagine most folks would be cheering her on.

Why?

You know whats sad, racial genocide in Darfur, that's sad, fake boobs, yeah not so much

Have you posted that on EVERY thread thats been started on these forums, or are you just having a pop at someone? If Darfur is weighing so heavily on your mind, maybe you should start a thread about it, just a thought.

I believe Loser might be trying to belittle my concerns about teenagers and trying to put it in proportion to a 'real' problem. Only Loser may one day regret not worrying about it when his/her pension fund is spent on the latest cosmetic surgery procedure for the toes/fingers/thumbs/whatever's left untouched by the surgeons knife at that point and never get to the company coffers.

I haven't read a newspaper since I was 17. I personally take no notice of media hype although I am aware of it because of my job, I don't watch TV, and I don't fall victim to fashion. However I work with teenagers and have my own, so I'm only going from personal experience of what I see around me, and what I see worries me. If that's not your personal experience then that's fine but it is mine. The teenagers where I live worry that they don't fit the perfect media image, most of them want boob jobs, lipo etc, to me that's sad. You may have noticed from my pic that I'm not particularly well endowed in the chest department and during a discussion about plastic surgery I was told by one girl that I need a boob job but probably not worth me having it as I'm old and saggy already so noone would want me anyway. Apart from being hysterically funny (which it is) it showed the mentality of teens, that anything less than media perfect is worthless, not withstanding the fact that at 18 anything over 30 is practically dead. So to me this discussion isn't about one spoilt girl, it's about a generation brought up to value physical perfection rather than intellectual and emotional values and how that will effect society as they mature.

This is not a story about a generation of kids. It is one girl and nothing more.

WRONG.

It IS about the latest generation of young and teenage girls,and it's appalling
I do read the papers and watch the news,documentaries,current affair programs,etc,and it(plastic surgery)is rampant amongst young women.
Here,in the news today is a story about a beautiful 26 year old girl who had surgery on her BUTT.

She died as a result of it and all in the name of trying to become more beautiful by societys standards when she was already NATURALLY beautiful.

Roxy127 wrote:Here,in the news today is a story about a beautiful 26 year old girl who had surgery on her BUTT.

She died as a result of it and all in the name of trying to become more beautiful by societys standards when she was already NATURALLY beautiful.

That's sad Roxy. The worrying thing is the teens I talk to seem oblivious to any dangers, they want the perfect body, they see the pórn stars and want to look like them. And yes it's the pórn stars they look to for perfect, not the movie stars. That in itself is scary.

Loser_Ville wrote:

it's about a generation brought up to value physical perfection rather than intellectual and emotional values and how that will effect society as they mature.

Well lets hope they do a better job than the current group of helicopter parents that think it is beneficial to the world to pave the road to adulthood with rose-pedals and fuzzy slippers, because all that coddling is turning kids into a giant bunch of over medicated whiners.


IMO
If parents really want to save their kids and save society.

They should do something about drug companies that run studies to identifies common human traits so they can classify them as an illness and then be able to sell drugs to treat the affliction they just created.

I couldn't agree with you more Loser. Maybe it should be on another debate thread because you've raised an important issue imo.

It saddens me to think the most important thing about this child's graduation ceremony is how her titties will look. Daddy's little girl is going to be some mans arm charm. I doubt he understands what he is teaching her, but then again maybe he does.

I own gyms/spas & I am amazed at the number of fathers that bring in their 10 year old sons & want to sign them up for classes so they will get buff. 10 years old! I'm also shocked because these same fathers subject their sons to growth hormones because being under 6' is not acceptable.

Ten year old little girls with high light/low lights & hair extensions, fake eyelash implants & fake nails accompany their mothers to my spa in hopes of getting their lips pumped up. 10 years old!

Unfortunately, this is not as uncommon as one may think.

Humility is a bygone virtue. Shame.

Teenage breast implants -- that thar is just not right. I don't care how ya stack it up. It's a shame that society's definition of "beauty" is being brought to you by corporate American, sleazy magazines, and movie stars that spend countless hours being made to look "perfect" and still having photo agents "photoshopping" their "blemishes" to make others, often more beautiful but "ordinary," feel inferior.

Meanwhile, they worry more about their looks than worry about becoming solid American citizens.

Yep. I have sat through many years of many nights trying to get my one daughter to choke down an Ensure shake when thats all she had that day.
I've sat through several of my son in laws deployments watching her waste away and being able to count her ribs.
Good old corporate America has done wonders ehh?