Plenty wrong with calling her plastic, judging her looks and how long people would do her for. Weird and creepy as fuck.
Yeah good point.
I'm sure she is a lovely person, but she is a role model and it's hugely disappointing that feels the need to alter her looks in such a way and that plenty of other people will follow her example. Because of the level of work done she doesn't look anything like her natural self, hence the word plastic.
Still, didn't quite come across in the manner I meant it.
If only women didn’t feel the pressure to care too much about their appearance. Think men might need to have a good old think about the example they set first.
I don't really think we need to prolong this, but just for academic interest, two of my former girlfriend's best friends at Cambridge did a lot of postgrad research on gender studies and it was both surprising (to me, as a male, with my own presumptions and so on) and illuminating to hear them talk about how much contemporary pressures to conform to beauty standards are actually dictated by female influences and are unrelated to male preferences.*
An example they often cited was the 'does my bum look big in this?' phenomenon, where research has repeatedly shown that a woman having a larger arse is seen by a vast majority of men as either a neutral or a positive, whereas it's still a source of anxiety for a large number of women.
*(This was qualified with the awareness that, potentially, such theories are shaped by women's post-feminist desire to reject male objectification and therefore deny men that power of influence, to whatever extent it exists.)
