I have to read this really really long case for class, so I’m at a cafe with my laptop and 80 papers stacked on top of each other with a highlighter and a blue pen. Like always, I have to take 10 minute intervals every couple of pages to stay sane. I was stumbling through articles and clicking on links when I started reading this story about how men prefer “real” women as opposed to ones that have had plastic surgery. It was an interesting story but nothing that I haven’t heard before, nearly every man you meet tells you that he prefers a real woman than a perfectly fake one. That’s besides the point, what caught my attention was the last paragraph of this long article.

“This is the part I think women don’t understand. When a guy falls in love, his lover’s body parts become bewitching. I’m not going to tell you that our heads don’t turn when we see a stacked blond walking down the street. But when we fall for you—really, really fall for you—you hijack our sense of beautiful. What’s sexy to us? You—in the “before” picture.”

I just stopped for a while thinking about what he wrote and thinking about love and physical attraction and it just made me stop what I was doing and really evaluate a lot of things. I hope it does the same for you.

I personally don’t want plastic surgery but I don’t mind it, I mean I don’t tell myself that I would never have plastic surgery, yeah maybe when I’m older and if I’m ever not content with the way I look, I don’t see why I shouldn’t have plastic surgery to make me feel good about myself. I wouldn’t do it to please anyone, but I would do it so that when I look in the mirror, I feel like myself. It sounds weird I know but it’s not. There’s this commercial on TV for this plastic surgeon and in the commercial there’s this part where this woman says “I hate looking at the mirror because I don’t even see myself anymore” and it rings some truth to it because I’ve been through a phase in my life where I would look at myself and the way people saw me and I really felt that they couldn’t see the real me, and I did something about it and it changed my life. So I don’t judge people who want to change the way they look, to me it’s just like laser hair removal or doing your eyebrows or applying make up, and yeah those may not be perminant but you are still altering the way you look to please you (or others) so why should you be bothered when someone else does it?

Now, please don’t tell me how it’s 7aram and whatnot, i think that everyone is aware of what we can and can’t do and people can make their own choices in life so let’s leave the religious and spiritual lecture out of it. What do you think about this issue? Would you get plastic surgery? Would you condone it? and why?