Plastic Surgery and Beauty....

Some of us recently looked at the plastic surgery AQ from RI....here are two links that shed further light on why some of us are not so hung up on looks, hence not tempted to go under the knife, unlike the South Koreans mentioned in the passage...

1) No need to be tall, dark, handsome

"If I am not their definition of beauty, then I will create my own definition of beauty. They are going to learn to enjoy that definition of beauty."


2) I'm an ugly woman, but a worthy person
Note the reasons given by the writer on the various problems or disadvantages one faces if one does not have the requisite looks expected of society....relate also to the harm caused by the media and ads in implanting the wrong values in us....
"Attractive waiters earn more tips. Beautiful people get more job interviews, get promoted more quickly and make more money than their unattractive counterparts. They're even seen as more "morally upright". Studies have even shown a bias in juries when the defendant is attractive.
This is why the ad campaigns that tell everyone they're beautiful are so dangerous. They link beauty with worthiness and kindness, doing nothing for the people thrust into the world knowing that simply isn't true."


Closing BANG using an interesting imagery (unwrapping present):
"I have good things about myself that people have to work to see. Getting through my appearance is just an extra wrapping that people need to get through to the present that is me."

Qn  Consider the argument that the main purpose of television should be to educate rather than simply to entertain. (Cam. 2015)