ok if this were real i would first ban like being a billionaire, puppy mills, etc but i think most people feel the same so those feel too obvious.
it is a hot take to some but i really hate plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes. tho i will say i can make an exception for ffs and restorative type surgery after an injury
so for one, cosmetic surgery is way more dangerous than media and celebs say it is. for example, 1 in 3000 people die from a BBL !! a cancer-causing type of breast implant was only banned in 2019 ! nose jobs can lead to collapses and deformities! unnecessarily changing your appearance is absolutely not worth risking any of that!
but the biggest reason i would ban cosmetic surgery is because it just fuels beauty standards. and the whole thing with ideal body standards is literally just informed by eugenics (racism + ableism) and misogyny. think about nose jobs! many nose types, like hooked or wide noses, are never chosen as the “ideal” nose, you only ever see like 3 exact noses in people who got a nose job. even when you google “aquiline nose” half of the images are plastic surgery before/afters of people who had aquiline noses “fixed”
almost all cosmetic surgery is basically done to achieve WASPy beauty standards and i think that’s really fucked up. i would never want to reinforce those ideas for myself or others by conforming to them. i think cosmetic surgery also sends a really toxic message to young people, especially teen girls. i know i always wanted a nose job growing up and i think that’s super fucked up!
if you are so so dissatisfied with your appearance that you want to permanently change it, you need therapy not surgery! i am 1000% not a “my body my choice” person when it comes to cosmetic surgery because that “choice” has not occurred in a vacuum, it’s almost always from wanting to conform to conventional beauty standards. you are not immune to norms
besides, isn’t it beautiful that people look all kinds of ways? i wish we appreciated that more
Oct 2, 2024
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I think the best way to describe it is an absence of features that you would typically see in a period drama that align with the beauty standards of a given time. The ubiquity of cosmetic procedures is definitely part of it too because it has a tendency to make people look more interchangeable instead of unique, and the blatant tells of having had work done to their face would take you out of a film set in a certain era because it would be immediately noticeable. The artificiality and homogeneity negates the sense of timeless beauty đź—ż
Dec 19, 2024
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there are sososo many worse things than beauty to devote yourself to
Jan 29, 2024
not certain that the world is ready for this yet, but i sure am, & that is all that matters. personally i think that this should be the next big thing, but it requires especially bushy eyebrows, which unfortunately aren’t guaranteed to every person brave enough to take the cool plunge. i feel so powerful & sexy…….. magical in a terribly dangerous kind of way - like i should live high in some barren mountains & tell the (accurate) fortunes of travellers with sheep’s bones
May 13, 2024
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being traditionally cool is really quite boring and iterative, and it’s actually very cool and sexy to geek out about something you like or share bits of knowledge on a topic you’re passionate about
Aug 17, 2024
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WORKER’S DAY!!!! i love having a union, i love being a union steward and getting to support my unit. when my union won its contract, i got a pay bump, better benefits, and increased protection as a worker. 🥳
unions help address racial and gender pay gaps, issues workplaces impose on families and those having kids, addressing unsafe conditions, plus things like better health insurance, wages and overtime, weingarten rights to representation, and more!!!
if you don’t have a union but are thinking about forming one, check out AFL-CIO’s page (linked) or Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. there’s always more power in a union!! ✊🥖🌹
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i had it for a little over a year until i was like wow this is actually terrible! i genuinely think it has negatively impacted society by ruining people’s attention spans, having a horrific algorithm, and most of all by the most mind-numbing or outright harmful trends -
fake words that people now use IRL (“unalive”), trad wife tiktok, shein hauls, body-focused fitness vids that encourage fatphobia and unhealthy habits, shallow political/feminist theory and queer discourse, “alpha male” podcaster tiktok, encouraging overconsumption in general, trends ruining local spots or niche things… the list goes on
Aug 17, 2024