Posted on 02/01/2015 5:58:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
* Cosmetic surgery is 'aggressive' towards female identity, says Vatican
* The women's initiative was rolled out by a Vatican office before Christmas
* But a clip featuring blonde Italian actress Nancy Brilli was taken down
* It came after the Internet promotional video was ridiculed by some viewers
Plastic surgery is a form of 'aggression' against the female body 'like a burqa made of the flesh,' according to the Vatican.
The working paper for a church plenary assembly on 'Women's Cultures: Equality and Difference' looked at the pressure faced by women and issues of body image.
But even as it acknowledged for centuries offering women 'ideological and ancestral left-overs', the church also faced ridicule for distributing a promo video featuring a 'sexy' blonde actress.
In the Pontifical Council for Culture's working paper, cardinals noted that going under the knife for elective surgery has been linked to eating disorders and depression. 'Plastic surgery that is not medico-therapeutic can be aggressive toward the feminine identity, showing a refusal of the body in as much as it is a refusal of the 'season' that is being lived out,' it said.
The members of the Pontifical Council also warned over the 'indiscriminate and undifferentiated' objectification of women in the media and advertising.
'No political or social battle has been able to do without a mechanism so profoundly rooted as that of the exploitation of the female body for commercial benefit,' the working paper said.
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So when someone is horribly disfigured plastic surgery is out???
This Vatican gets more and more creepy.
Bad translation. Bush’s fault.
First of all, the fact that the whole thing is couched as a problem about “women” is stupid. Just as when “domestic abuse” is portrayed as a matter of men abusing women.
It is impossible to take this 1973-style feminist agitation seriously any longer.
As others have noted, while hundreds of thousands of Christians are being raped and slaughtered by misunderstanders of the Religion of Peace, the Vatican is spending time and energy talking about the problems of the Jet Set?
Speaking of dogs,
Did West Hollywood ever ban cosmetic surgery for pets?
Somewhere they even wanted to ban dying their hair colors (no more pink poodles).
You have a handsome mustache, ma’am.
Gee, the Church hierarchy is FINALLY speaking out a little about NancyPelosi?!
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