Comments on: Beauty is in the Eye of the Money Holder http://thecurvature.com/2007/10/05/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-money-holder/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: brandann http://thecurvature.com/2007/10/05/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-money-holder/#comment-1607 brandann Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:26:47 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/2007/10/05/beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-money-holder/#comment-1607 i just read this article in US weekly (b/c i was in the check out line and bored) about this "celebrity" (i had never heard of her) who got "revenge plastic surgery". it was really a sad thing...she blathered on and on about how she was teased for being "flat" by boys and how she hated the nose she inherited from her father (it was so big she could actually see it when she looked down...oh noes!!!), and how it was her way of getting back at everyone who teased her...hmmm... how is that "getting back at" anyone? doesn't that just fuel the fire that causes ass hats like the kids she went to school w/ to tease girls who don't fit their fucked up ideals? i just don't get it! as a mother i have to ask (cuz in the article she said her mother and grandmother were supportive and "glad they didn't have to do it") where do we fail our daughters? (and apparently our sons, since they seem to think that women should look a certain way?) how in the fuck do we let our children get to a point where instead of learning to love themselves they live in self loathing until they can chop themselves up??? i don't get it, and women like the ones in that article, and the one you quoted above, seem to be so deluded. i cry inside for them. i know it hurts to hate things about yourself, and to want to change...but this can't be the best way. i think we are just as much at fault as parents as the media for this...i wish more parents could help their kids learn to love themselves, and teach them that they never need to resort to a butcher... but this is just MHO. i just read this article in US weekly (b/c i was in the check out line and bored) about this “celebrity” (i had never heard of her) who got “revenge plastic surgery”. it was really a sad thing…she blathered on and on about how she was teased for being “flat” by boys and how she hated the nose she inherited from her father (it was so big she could actually see it when she looked down…oh noes!!!), and how it was her way of getting back at everyone who teased her…hmmm…

how is that “getting back at” anyone? doesn’t that just fuel the fire that causes ass hats like the kids she went to school w/ to tease girls who don’t fit their fucked up ideals? i just don’t get it!

as a mother i have to ask (cuz in the article she said her mother and grandmother were supportive and “glad they didn’t have to do it”) where do we fail our daughters? (and apparently our sons, since they seem to think that women should look a certain way?) how in the fuck do we let our children get to a point where instead of learning to love themselves they live in self loathing until they can chop themselves up???

i don’t get it, and women like the ones in that article, and the one you quoted above, seem to be so deluded. i cry inside for them. i know it hurts to hate things about yourself, and to want to change…but this can’t be the best way. i think we are just as much at fault as parents as the media for this…i wish more parents could help their kids learn to love themselves, and teach them that they never need to resort to a butcher…

but this is just MHO.

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