At the risk of offending some of my blog viewers, I am going to state a bold opinion with this post. I know many of you don't feel the same way, but when I read this article on msn just now I could feel myself getting angry! I even started talking out loud to myself about how ridiculous it is. I will post the link for any of you who are interested. Basically a plastic surgeon wrote a children's book glamorizing plastic surgery called, My beautiful mommy. In the book (which in all fairness I only read the excerpts from the article) he takes the child through the journey of the mommy becoming "more beautiful" by getting a nose job, breast augmentation and a tummy tuck. It honestly just makes me sick to my stomach to think that women place so much of their value and identity on their physical appearance. what is this teaching children? and why does beauty have such narrow parameters? and what lengths will our future generations go to to feel like they are fitting into this category.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/132240/page/1
5 comments:
hey, i totally agree with you. i saw that book and i honestly thought it was a joke at first! i can't believe in our society we've become that shallow.
I completely agree with you Laurie. What kind of message are we giving our children? I think people forget that the way we view ourselves will have a major impact on our children. Our children see themselves as images of us. If they see that Mommy doesn't like her nose, then she's going to think she isn't pretty either. It is so disturbing. I heard on the news that 50% of all girls between 1st and 3rd grade want to loose weight. It makes you wonder if their mother wasn't so concerned about if she looked fat in her jeans, her daughter wouldn't be so concerned about her weight either. Anyways, just my two cents.
Oh my gosh!!! I cant believe that. I agree with Ashley- our society is so shallow. Its sad that we feel we must be skinner, prettier, or have a perfect body to be beautiful. I hope I can teach my girls to love themselves for who they are- and not what society tell us is beautiful.
So guess what I heard too? (this is random) Carol Todd says that whoever bought my old house plans to demo the entire thing! Sadness!!
Laurie I saw this on "The View" and was disgusted myself!! Luckily those on the View agreed with me. They asked the question, "What is this teaching our children" too. It's CRAZY and wrong!!
Agreed with all of you!!! SICK!!
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