To me, she looks like a freak. She was probably a pretty girl before she mutilated herself.
Posted on 03/21/2007 8:11:58 AM PDT by Millee
Do you remember when you first heard about the concept of breast enlargement? I reckon I must have been nine or 10 years old and can recall thinking: "They do WHAT? That's crazy, who would do THAT to themselves?"
"That", in the first agonising years of breast enlargement, was a doctor injecting silicone straight into a woman's breast (nothing as fancy as an implant), a delightful practice the origin of which lay in the prostitution industry of post-war Japan, where US servicemen found the local women's bosoms too small for their taste.
Elizabeth Haiken writes in the book Venus Envy that breast enlargement then spread to "topless dancers and Las Vegas showgirls" and, by 1975, "surgeons suspected that more than 12,000 women had received silicone injections (not implants) in Las Vegas alone; more than 100 woman a year were seeking help for conditions ranging from discolouration to gangrene".
Like the post two weeks ago about women shaving their legs, this one is again outside the zone of a direct men's issue but nonetheless impacts on us because of our role (active and tacit) in the decision so many women make to mutilate their bodies for male approval ...
Compared with some earlier attempts, injecting a pint of silicone into a woman's body seems positively high tech.
According to the book The Safety of Silicone Breast Implants published by Washington's Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, paraffin injections were attempted in 1889 with "disastrous results".
"Subsequently, in the early to mid-1900s, a number of other substances were tried, including ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, Terylene wool, gutta-percha, Dicora, polyethylene chips, polyvinyl alcohol-formaldehyde polymer sponge (Ivalon), Ivalon in a polyethylene sac, polyether foam sponge (Etheron), polyethylene tape (Polystan) or strips wound into a ball, polyester (polyurethane foam sponge)
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.smh.com.au ...
To me, she looks like a freak. She was probably a pretty girl before she mutilated herself.
ewww. ewww Millee, awful.
We're a culture of mutilation it seems :(
Now liposuction on the other hand, COMPLETELY understandable! ;o)
Yeah! Take it away! Take it all away!
I don't understand why people feel the need to mutilate themselves into caricatures.
I totally agree!
How'd you miss that one, Millee?
Not you, Millee. Ever.
Good argument,
the other side, however are the "T&A" threads here.
For every one thread about an average looking woman who's admired as being a great ___________, you'll see 50 about someone who has, erm, assets.
The message is pretty clear.
And the message doesn't reflect favorably on some of us around here.
What's the old saying? "More than a mouth full us wasted?"
Ms. Coulter and Ms. Malkin are considered hotties around here and they're both lacking in upper torso assets.
"In the unlikely event of a water landing, your flight attendent may be used as a floatation device."
vanity - thy name is woman.
I have never, ever told a woman how to look. I'm far too fond of living;-)
My vacation photo of the Toronto Canada Expo Tower!
read thousands of posts over many years like I have...since the Quidam days and before, and you'll notice that any woman will be put in her place not by logical argument but by nasty put down words about their looks......very predictable..
have the most intelligent and talented and conservative woman in the world make a statement, and the FIRST thing from some freeper men will be "oh she's a babe"....or similar....
You sound like a smart man. :o)
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