Thursday 3 January 2013

Plastic Surgery texts to 16 year olds

      I was a female hippy in the swinging 60's. We discovered that we could be ourselves, we could be quite natural - no bra, no corset, no makeup, long 'undone' hair and weird clothes defying any previous ideas of convention.
     It was OK to have hairy arm pits and hairy legs and no-one except the Muslims had yet dreamt up the idea of shaving your pubic hair - yuk.
      The exception to this was childbirth, when to our howls of protest, our pubic area was shaved before the dreaded enema.
      Before all that, a woman was expected to 'always make the best of herself - of her appearance',   - because if she didn't, she might get left on the shelf and there was no worse disgrace except to be a single mother.
      What has happened to society now? There has been a complete turn around and the situation is even worse than it was before the hippy revolution. I read that cosmetic surgery companies are texting 16 year old girls with messages such as
            "Only two years until you can have your plastic surgery"
I find this unbearably sad.
How can women (and men) learn again to accept and like themselves  - as they are?
How can they also be taught not to worry about aging?
I am old now and I promise you - it is OK


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