@kopenhagen5 wrote:
Also what you don't hear about from the industry are all the ones that have gone wrong and the amount of women regretting it.
You hear about how successful it is because that is what you think and want to believe.
Apart from the medical complications, I am boy and unless medically required by someone, I wouldn't consider someone with breast implants as a future mother of my children. Don't mean to be blunt but I think your daughter may alienate herself from many people with the right priorities in life.
I and many of the nice people I am surrounded by consider a person based on their behaviour and who they are, not what nature dealt them. A persons mind and personality is what is attractive and I sincerely hope your daughter sees that more than the wishful thinking of our far too image conscious society of today.
What is to be considered are the things that can be lost, not the things that can be gained.
Hello,
Would you discard a potential life partner whose personality and mind were attractive to you because they had implants?
I think for some, it may go far deeper than superficial image.
I know that women who may have had masectomies for the treatment of cancer will sometimes have reconstructions.
For some, I think it might be about feeling female. Feeling feminine.
Sure, it is a socially constructed symbology, but being female and having breasts are synonymous and have been throughout history.
It is the same for some men. Men speak of what they consider to be abnormalities in their anatomies and question their masculinity.
I am largely in agreeance with you, so please, I do not mean to argue with or challenge what you have said. Personally, I don't believe in unneccesary procedures. However, what each of us deems as necessary, often differs.
Ones self perception can influence the attractiveness of their mind and personality.
A few things for the mum to discuss with her daughter.
From the movie Cool Runnings, someone asked something like how will I know when I am good enough. The answer was, if you are not good enough (as a person) without (the medal), then you will never be good enough with it.
Then I think it is Whitney Houston - a song along the lines of "learning to love yourself, is the greatest love of all".
