"I went through two very painful plastic surgery before I became who I am now."
In the movie Notting Hill, when a group of relatives and friends started fighting for the last brownie cake after the birthday dinner, Julia Roberts's big star Ann Scott pointed at her nose and chin.
Ann didn't become the most "miserable" person that night, but this small move really made her friends at the dinner feel her bitterness. There are many people in this world who have undergone facial plastic surgery once or more, but most of them have not become such a big star as Ann.
Plastic surgery is very common in our life, ranging from changing face to pulling double eyelids, which can be called plastic surgery. However, like cloning and organ transplantation, cosmetic surgery has always been controversial. People who have had plastic surgery are always reluctant to admit that they have had plastic surgery, while others look at plastic surgeons like thieves.
Many men think that plastic surgery is a kind of deception, which is not only shameful but also hateful. For example, legal? The absurd husband, who found his wife angry after plastic surgery, took her to court in high school. In the play, the wife who was rejected because of plastic surgery finally found a handsome boyfriend who didn't care about her plastic surgery and started a new life. Not only men who feel cheated, but feminists also oppose plastic surgery. Activists active in the 1960s believed that cosmetic surgery, like makeup and dieting, showed a kind of flattery from women to men. Feminists of this school always realize "equal rights" by letting women show their masculine side, such as the famous "burning bra" movement, in which housewives trapped in the kitchen took to the streets and burned bras representing bondage to show their determination to equal rights.
"Bra Burning" Movement in 1960s
Bartky, a feminist scholar, believes that the fashion trend of women's dressing and make-up can never be separated from patriarchal women's aesthetics: whiter, weaker and younger. Western girls' deformed organs, China's three-inch golden lotus, are all sacrifices made by women to cater to the male-dominated aesthetics.
From the present point of view, "burning bras" may be extreme, but it made many women in that era realize that they can be as powerful and capable as men without being trapped in the kitchen. In today's society, women's roles are becoming more and more independent and diverse, and more and more women are beginning to realize that their beautiful appearance and beautiful posture are first to please themselves, not to succumb to male-dominated aesthetics.