Extreme Makeover (and other plastic surgery programs)

For the most part, I am against all forms of plastic surgery. However I know this is a debatable subject and I find in some, very few, cases I see exceptions.

But, I do think that Extreme Makeover is going too far.

I think it’s pretty pathetic that our society has come down to this obsession with the human image that the media has actually created a television show promoting altering people’s true images and then proclaiming how much it changed their lives to be more attractive.

My exceptions: It is true that there have been people who are actually deformed and so different looking that they cannot be accepted into modern day society. These people often become suicidal and depressed being shunned from almost all of humanity, hardly feeling human themselves. These people I can compromise with.

However, notice that Extreme Makeover’s makeovers are indeed, extreme. The people who come out often don’t look anything like the person they did before. In fact, they hardly look real.
Our society has been so lowered to this point that one image is considered the “beautiful” image, and that you cannot be happy unless you achieve it.

Even worse yet is the television program “the swan”
(I’m not sure if they’re from the same producers, anyway…)
This t.v. show not only alters women’s images to a false and plastic looking extent, but then judges them on who came out the best looking as to opposed their “horribly unattractive” look originally.

I find all of them incredibly degrading to women (and men) that they feel the need to go to the extent of resorting to plastic in order to gain confidence.

Your views: are these shows going, or not, too far and if not, your arguments as to why.
(Please make them worth reading)

i think the t.v programs are over the top, i was watching opera one day and some lady was on it and she was 20 something and she had had 28 plastic surgeies, (or close to) and she looked completely different, no where near the same person, they were like two totally different people and it disgusts me, i think youshould only get plastic surgery if you are seriously deformed (like you said) and if you've been in a very bad accident, which demented your face, other than that i think plastic surgery is wrong.

i completely agree. especially with these shows. its terrible that if everyone does not conform to this theyre labeled as ugly while the so called pretty people get poison injected into their face so that a few wrinkles go away at the expense of their face being frozen. i hate what the media has done to young women too. girls in my class watch these shows and the rich ones have parents that get stuff like that done. i swear at a school auction they had a botox package. it sickening...

omg now that is the sickest thing ive heard for a long time, what SCHOOL auction has a botox package?

its reality t.v, in a way its informing us about wat goes on in the world.

I agree! Totally agree! There's enough pressure in this world already to look 'beautiful' without them promoting it on the TV. As if there's not a big enough amount of pressure given by the media anyway...slinky women all over the front of magazines and adverts. Everyone's told not to go by what they see, but it's hard to not take notice of it when it's everywhere and plastic surgery is seen as an OK thing to do...an easy way out!

yeah my school is really scary sometimes. its cause my school is in the rich area of town, even though my family is pretty poor, we commute. anyway, all the parents there are freaky botoxed up moms. they can all afford it, so they all get it done. its creepy. and its a catholic school too, i would expect better from them on this...

A botox auction at school…Now that’s a major example of what society has been whittled down to.
It’s already going too far when people are altered to an extreme extent on television and viewed as a positive change, but promoting this image in schools?
I have this theory that in the next generation, mothers will be giving daughters nose jobs for birthday presents. (not that it doesn’t go on now, but at the rate were going, it’s going to become common.)

(Disposable teen: I saw that oprah!)

When plastic surgery has gotten to the point where it changes the complete figure of a person, and then displayed as a positive event that has changed the person’s life in a ‘wonderful’ way, we know we have gone too-far

I wonder how we even got to this state.

Actually I think plastic surgery is a great thing. If some ones not happy with their face then let them change it. If they're comfortable with themselves they won't need to. If some ones not happy as they are, why condemn the rest of their lives to misery? Everyone has a different definition as to whats beautiful, so I don't see how we can all somehow 'conform'. I agree that the shows are stupid, and I personally find them quite boring, but that sort of thing appeals to some people. Everyone in the world is unique, so why are some people afraind we are all going to somehow sudenly blend into one many headed entity?

Good argument Angel,
However, the reason why I am against it is because these people wouldn't have been uncomftorble with themselves in the first place if it weren't for the media and images on television, and how incredibly important it is to be beautiful.

The kind of surgery your talking about where someone is just insecure about something and when they get it fixed it's just not annoying anymore, is the lesser kind that's not all that life altering and dramatic. and that, I'm still not sided with, but not that much bothered by it.

However, there have been thousands of cases where the women actually become addicted to plastic surgery. You might say that sounds a bit far fetched, but here's what happens:
the women fix one thing, then find something else that's wrong. They then use up all of their money on plastic surgery, and actually go BROKE. Many have starred in porn videos or starred nude just to get money for surgery.

Theres way more to that but I'm too lazy to add it all in right now.

anyway, that's just an example of how extreme it can get.

Eff...I hate reality tv.

Plastic surgery really doesn't seem like a big deal to me, I mean in moderation.

Every girl has something on their body that they'd like to change. For those of you who think you are exceptions to this, you are lying.

Teenage girls should not be allowed to change their appearance except in deformity situations. They're too young, and not mature enough to know when to stop.

Women should absolutely have the choice, why not? If someone is that uncomfortable with their appearance than money buys happiness right?

The thing that scares me is genetic engineering. Soon they'll be able to alter the appearance of your child, then the entire human race will end up looking the same...yay.

plastic surgery is not at all a big deal, its common and its realistic.

tho yes, it dosnt always end well but its a risk, n it changes ppls life. wen u kno u look good on the outside, u feel better on the inside, its tru

p.s breast reduction r good 4 u

True, some surgery can result in the better, and there are exceptions (as I said before) my point is that if it weren't for our society and how it has become obsessed with the beautiful image, the girl's wouldn't feel a need to change themselves in the first place.

of course every girl (and some guys) have insecurities, and why is that? Do you think that girls would care half as much about how they look if it weren't for the extreme importance and pressure that has been set on people to look beautiful?
not to mention our whole idea of beauty. Acient Greeks and Romans thought a woman slim was unattractive, and the more..."well fed" were beautiful.
That's not saying that beaing fat is beautiful and the right way to go...it's saying that humanity has based looks on extreme importance and stress of life that to what we all define as beautiful must be set and must be achieved.
Which isn't right.

Yeah, I totally agree with you. If people hadn't ever started with makeovers and plastic surgery, then everyone would look the way they're supposed to and then there wouldn't be so much pressure on girls nowadays to change their appearance because of minor imperfections.
Of course plastic surgery can be good too, for example if you're in an accident and your entire face gets messed up or something then I understand why someone would really want to have plastic surgery.. Or if you're born with ears the size of your head then you're probably not accepted and you have suffer because of that the rest of your life. In that kind of cases plastic surgery is okay.
Some women reeeally get addicted to it though. Also, if all the celebrities get their faces all changed and make them look beautiful yet kind of "plastic," all those girls who watch them on tv will want to look exactly like them so they'll want plastic surgery and then other girls will want it too and on and on and on and soon everyone is getting plastic surgery and nobody will look the way they used to and there won't be any "natural beauty" in anyone anymore.
So why not just accept what you look like? It's not that importand after all!

Good one Matt

I just want to point out something about plastic surgery that pretty much stated my whole point of how incredibly fake and unnatural it is.

It's in the name..."plastic" surgery.

Sometimes these surgeries go so far that people can hardly be called real flesh anymore. More like dolls

Shows like that are the reason I stopped watching TV. I think it's disgusting and degrading to women. I spent between 4 and 5 years of my life worrying what people think about me and if how I look is okay, and now, I finally don't care, I am finally myself, and if people think it's ugly, (which they do) I don't care. I can understand if, like you said, people with major deformity get surgery, but I mean, if you look actually deecnt, then what's the point?! I think it's a waste of money. Just buy a new wardrobe and makeup if looking better is THAT important to you...that's my opinion.

-Mortalidaga
xxTakeCarexx

Lol! Cute, nice Matt. =)

-Mort