Natural expectations and beauty enhancement !!!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

September 27, 2006
Vox Populi
By Denise Noe

......."As pleased as I was by the breast enhancement affected by my time on the Pill, I recently decided to add a little more. I had breast augmentation so I could fill out a C-cup. I went deeply into debt because of the operation. But I donÂ’t regret having it. For the first time in my life, I can have cleavage when I wear a bra and something low-cut. "



In an essay entitled, “Cultural mirror distorts natural beauty,” Ellen Goodman assumes that societal pressures push women to want breast enlargements. She overlooks the possibility that there is a natural desire to have more of a good thing. Spongy, round breasts are one of the chief physical attributes that distinguish women from men so they can easily be seen as quintessentially feminine.

Up until my early twenties, I had “fried egg” breasts invisible below clothes. When I mentioned my dissatisfaction with them, the “societal pressure” from most people I talked to was not to have them enlarged but to just forget about them.

One person I talked to gave me some good, matter-of-fact advice when she told me her breasts grew when she went on the Pill. Although my sex life was not of a sort that made pregnancy a possibility, I began taking the Pill and was happy to see that I soon had a small amount of growth. My breasts were not even up to average size but they were more than the empty-feeling, cherry-sized bumps they had previously been.

Since the 1970s, the number of breast augmentations has skyrocketed. During that same time period, occupational and professional opportunities for women have also expanded. The one change may not be directly connected with the other but it should show that an attractive, feminine appearance is hardly incompatible with womenÂ’s participation in the public and economic realms.

For centuries, women were excluded from much of public life. In this writer’s opinion, this was not the result of a vast, male-orchestrated cultural conspiracy. Rather, it was the inevitable result of the truth that sexually active women were so often disabled by multiple pregnancies. Constant, often dangerous pregnancies, kept most women confined to the domestic sphere. In the twentieth century, modern medical improvements in managing childbirth coupled with wonderfully improved contraceptive methods – both largely brought about by men – helped to alleviate these natural female burdens.

This is not to deny the very real existence of cultural prejudices, sexist attitudes that grew out of seeing females almost always in traditional roles. The first generations of women in the professions were fiercely discriminated against due to stereotypes like those espoused by Clarence Darrow when he said to a group of female attorneys: “You can’t be shining lights at the bar because you are too kind. You can never be corporation lawyers because you are not cold-blooded. You have not a high degree of intellect. You can never expect to get the fees men get.”

Women have since decisively proven him wrong. They are now the majority of those in law school and have made extraordinary strides in an array of previously male-dominated fields.

At the same time, they have spent ever more on cosmetic procedures of all kinds, including breast enlargement. Goodman and other critics overlook the probability that women are not responding to a distorted cultural mirror but to an intrinsic, natural desire to express their femininity. Just as contraception enabled women to make full use of their gender-neutral, human talents, so scientific advances have facilitated their natural desire for adding to their specifically female attributes. Indeed, the greater disposable income that todayÂ’s American woman has means she can spend more of money on looking pretty.

As pleased as I was by the breast enhancement affected by my time on the Pill, I recently decided to add a little more. I had breast augmentation so I could fill out a C-cup. I went deeply into debt because of the operation. But I donÂ’t regret having it. For the first time in my life, I can have cleavage when I wear a bra and something low-cut. I like that.

[Nagin]

You know its funny how many women are getting these breast enhancement .(Implants)... I had this friend of mine (not muslim).
I asked her why???? You haveing breast implants..she said ..To look and feel more like a women. So I I agree with him/her (Ellen Goodman)..saying "ITS SOCIETAL DO PUSH WOMEN TO WANT BREAST ENHANCEMNT".....because these poor women are being forced to beleive that fixing your body the right way is beautiful... ......

[Gacalisa]

Wallahi, the American Soceity is very hard to please.


all these people have all these disorders, eating or what not, just to please people they dont know, and to fit in.

wallahi is sadness, and our children will grow here.