Feminists & Plastic Surgery?

Question

Questions have been posted about Feminism and fake boobs. Firstly, not that it's any of your business, but I do not believe in putting silicon in my body, and if I one day choose to change my mind, I don't believe this to have anything with women's struggle for gender equality (feminism), so I will go ahead and do what I feel like doing to improve my body. Secondly, the feminism that I believe in promotes choices, not limitations.

Is there anything I'm missing about Feminism and personal choices?

Answer 1

That's your right, your choice, your decision. Who am I to say you can or cannot have any type of plastic surgery or how to live your life. Improve it, enhance it, or just live with the flaws that you have on your body, that's your personal choice.

The only limitations we have, are the limits that we set for ourselves. Other than that? It's unlimited. If People don't know how to push for more choices in life? Then, they have limited and restricted themselves from those choices.

Answer 2

The decision for any type of plastic surgery is up to the individual(s) themselves. It's no ones concern as to why a person would want to have plastic surgery done. If they can afford and that is what they want to do? Then so be it. Who are we to say what they can and cannot do.

I would also want to touch on the matter of "financial slavery." If an Individual is ordered to pay child support no matter if it's a Male or Female, then that is their RESPONSIBILITY. Job or no job. Your obligation is to the child, NOT to the custodial parent. If People don't want to work because they don't want to pay their child support to the custodial parent, then, they are only penalizing the child. And don't think that the custodial parent isn't supporting the child, no matter how they get their support, while the non-custodial parent is out of a job or their payments staggers in.

If One cannot be accountable and responsible to pay their child support, then, they shouldn't be having kids. So yes, you will be a "financial slave" and support the child. They still would have been a "financial slave" even IF they were still living in the household. That's just the bottom line.

Answer 3

I completely agree that medical decisions are personal choices; however, I remain a bit skeptical about plastic surgery in a lot of cases. It seems like it's just a system wherein part of the medical industry is able to financial exploit men's and women's media inspired and plastic surgery enhanced anxieties about their bodies. I think everyone, of course, should be free to do what they want but I do thing it's a way of exploiting some people.

Of course, I'm not including all plastic surgery in this like reconstructive surgeries after illness and whatnot, but on a larger level, I think there is something exploitative about telling people they're not physically OK and then offering to fix it for them for a huge fee.

Answer 4

I agree with you. Your choice to use surgery to change your body would not have anything to do with you feminists beliefs.

The only people who would equate plastic surgery with feminists are those men on this forum who are just trying to show their disrespect of all women such comparisons. I say, don't play into their hands. Drop the topic.

Oh, and to the little orange thing with a name no one can pronounce, child support is money for your children. They need lots of stuff and since your are responsible for their birth, you must buy that stuff. If you don't then you are hurting your children. It's a fairly simple concept. Hope you get it. Actually, I hope your children get it because children who must live in poverty are damaged by doing without.

If you don't want to pay for raising children you helped to produce put a little condom on your little orange thingy. Or don't have sex at all.

Answer 5

Not all personal choices are beneficial to the one making them. Society has some obligation to discourage the harmful ones while upholding the principle of self-determination. This is an inherently murky task, without easy or absolute answers.
___Fake boobs plug into issues of self-fulfilling prophecies. The more society focuses on self-esteem as if it were a moral value, and neglects emotional and subjective self-indulgence as harmful practices, the more it sets up a social context in which the self-mutilation of plastic surgery can come to be seen as a desirable way to enhance one's emotional "health". One the one hand, feminism promotes this sort of thing by feeding into women's self-indulgence, while it also, in ot's focus on superficial criteria of value and equality (economic and emotional criteria), it focuses people on the more superficial domain in general.
___On the other hand, it discourages the valuing of persons in appearance terms. On different levels, it sends messages that conflict with one another.

Answer 6

I personally don't think having silicon bags inplanted in your body improves it but I won't try to talk someone else out of having it done.

Answer 7

Although I’ve never had any sort of plastic surgery either, it is everyone’s right to have whatever type of surgery they think will make them a better person, even if it’s only on the outside.

Answer 8

no, your body is your business

besides plastic surgery is about making you as beautiful on the outside as you feel on the inside

Answer 9

As much as feminists have personally opposed breast implants, we will not try to stop women from having them if they really want to.

Answer 10

I'd say you've hit the nail on the head for the most part, however, I think you missed just a couple of points:
You said "...promotes choices, not limitations." I think it should be amended to read: "...promotes choices for women only and limitations for men (e.g. Father's rights, or lackthereof or financial slavery in the form of C$A).

ETA: aceyducey - I don't have an orange thingy to put a condom on? LoL. And although by 'definition' C$A is for children, no one holds anyone accountable for the money is spent. And yes, it can be misused as a form of financialial slavery for example if he is no longer working, how can he pay? If he were living with them... his income would still be that of an unemployed man - but he wouldn't face jail (debtors prison) for being unemployed... as a 'throwaway-daddy', he DOES face jail for being unemployed.
Yes I know he can request an amendment, but I also know they rarely do any good... Judges don't give men benefit of the doubt. Also account how much interest the government make from C$A while they 'delay' the shifting from 'wallet to handbag' (as Polly Toynbee worded it) ... the C$A is no more than an income for mothers & government. Oh and on the subject, women have 'C$A gap' they should be looking at.. they pay considerably less C$A than men and they fail to pay more frequently than men, why aren't feminists complaining about this?