Signs of the Times

Campus Report ^ | February 12, 2009 | Deborah Lambert

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Signs of the Times

by: Deborah Lambert, February 12, 2009

How you can tell if the country is still in a recession? Here are some clues:

(1) Colleges are still biting the bullet and lowering tuition costs; (2) Fewer teens are playing playing pricey video games; and (3) Your next-door neighbors aren’t getting boob jobs for their teenage daughters.

How times have changed.

In 2007, “the American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported that American consumers spent more than $12 billion on cosmetic surgery,” said Maura Moynihan in The Daily Beast. But the 2008 profit plunge took a toll on boob jobs, which dropped by 62 percent in just one year.

Reporter Moynihan attributes the breast augmentation hoopla that took off in the 1990s to the increasing trend toward subordination of women “within the patriarchy,” which urged them to compensate for their female inadequacy by getting “Barbie Body” implants. “Surgical alteration was perceived as a means to ‘salvation,’” says Moynihan....

[raybbr]

Boob jobs are for boobs and the boobs that like them.

It’s a colossal waste of money.

[OneWingedShark]

Funny thing is that I’d like a woman with a figure, not a stick with surgically attached silicone jello-bowels...

Or am I the minority in the male population?

{Of course, that’s only taking into consideration the outward, character, or lack there of, can REALLY overshadow that.}

[RebelTXRose]

The boob jobs were paid for by insurance companies covering UNIONS! It’s in the teachers’ union contract here in Western New York. That’s how that much got spent for something that isn’t usually covered by insurance and, I believe, is not deductible is not covered by insurance...

[SES1066]

Is Pamela Anderson, formerly of Babe Watch, a million dollar woman yet? I got a 4th hand video clip of her with Playboy Hefner at his birthday, she was in skin and I swear that I don’t think anything bounced above the waist and below the neck. SCARY!