#anti plastic surgery

[sapphsorrows]

cosmetic plastic surgeons do not give a fuck about you. their offices are like assembly lines. they do not care about you. they do not care about your feelings. they only care about how much money they can make off of your insecurities.

this especially includes so-called "gender affirming" cosmetic surgeons. "oh i found this great surgeon who affirms me" no you did not. you found a snakeoil salesman who is going to have you chasing a dragon you will never catch.

#remember when this started because they wanted to help guys with facial deformities after ww1.... #what happened #capitalism! that's what happened #gender critical #radical feminist #anti plastic surgery

[redditreceipts]

#radblr #anti beauty standards #anti beauty industry #fuck your beauty standards #plastic surgery #anti plastic surgery #radical feminism #radical feminists please interact #anti beauty culture

[live-love-laugh-lesbian]

Cosmetic surgery is NOT the same as reconstructive surgery ffs. Someone getting a nose job so they look "better" is not the same as someone trying to restore their nose after an accident and you all know it.

"Oooh you can't criticise plastic surgery, some people NEED it" ok well I can and I will, just like I'll criticise the diet industry even tho sure there are people who might need to lose weight out there.

Let's be real here, it's very telling that feminists will be like "hey so X exploits women" and suddenly a bunch of you will be like "whoa there, have you considered not talking about that?"

It's worse when those of you claiming to be all anti capitalist do this tho. Oh you think capitalism is bad, but also we shouldn't critique the rise of dangerous and unnecessary cosmetic surgeries? Go fuck yourself

#anti beauty industry #anti beauty culture #anti plastic surgery #radfems interact #radfems please touch #radical feminism #vagueposting #vague post

[radicallyles]

the TOP post (currently) on what is supposed to be a woman positive subreddit is about undergoing harmful and unnecessary surgeries that will just cause both physical and mental health problems later down the line. and it was posted by a TIM btw. just saying.

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[sad-cinnamongirl]

I'm in my teens and I am often told I need Botox or some kind of plastic surgery to get rid of my fine lines. I used to use drugs. I had an eating disorder. I smoke. I experience stress. I don't look old. I look like a teenager with a face completely appropriate considering my situation.

aging is a gift

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[they-called-me-terfy]

Women and girl don’t need plastic surgery. They need knives, guns and weapons of mass destruction.

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[insectfem]

banger from my 8th grade sketchbook

#ive posted this before but it was on another blog #but i just found it so #radical feminism #radblr #radfem #radical feminists please touch #anti beauty industry #anti plastic surgery #anti makeup

[mintcirrus]

Thinking about choice feminism again

Superficially, there's the women that claim that their botox, their plastic surgery, their 1-hour makeup routine is their choice. They deserve no ire on our behalf. Their predicament reminds me of a passage I read about the practice of Chinese foot binding, how the women would be delighted at the colors of their "golden lotus" shoes, the fanciful embroidery -- some shoes even had secret vials of perfume built into the heel. This, of course, ignoring the fact that these women's feet were purposely broken to keep them tied to a household -- a situation that draws parallels to modern plastic surgery that removes vital fat, muscle, and skin so that women "can finally wear that cute bikini I've always wanted to!" or "keep my husband interested"

The real source of anger should be the beauty industries and plastic surgery institutes that claim that getting a nose job is equivalent to keeping your natal nose, that having your inner labia removed should be just as acceptable a choice as leaving them alone. This marketing is made to be insidious, as if a woman feels ashamed for having a hooked nose in a culture that desires small, pointed noses, she is not comforted -- instead, the shame is placed as her fault alone, because she made the "equivalent choice" to not change her nose, and thus she has to deal with the societal consequences.

These industries, after establishing this false equivalency, make sure to leave their doors open for this type of woman, as if to say "Pay us, and you never have to feel ashamed again. Have you finally made the right choice?"

#anti makeup #radfem #radfems do touch #anti plastic surgery

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

The Female Hunger

There is an eternal void inside my heart that is gnawing my blood, bones and sinew. The mirror haunts me, reflecting what I am and mocking what I can never be. I see the asymmetrical eyes, the pudgy stomach and scarred legs. To be seen by the world is to be fulfilled. The void is hungry for beauty, it demands it. So I sew my eyes, my stomach and my legs. Yet, the void only grows hungrier. It doesn't care that I am skin and bones or that my body is black and blue. But Before I can satiate its hunger, it devours my soul.

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[dieletztepanzerhexe]

#pro buccal fat #found #reddit #cherub faced queens your time will come #anti plastic surgery

[furierouge]

it’s kind of insane that when i talk about all of the issues with the makeup industry and plastic surgery that people will agree with me but the second i say that i’m against them both, they get so defensive. like you can agree how makeup and plastic surgery can be harmful and are examples of the way women’s bodies are commodities and only exist for male consumption and you get mad when i say i don’t think people should wear makeup or get plastic surgery??????

#radfem #radfem please touch #radfem please interact #radfem safe #anti makeup #anti plastic surgery

[terfrepliesonly]

Throughout my teens I was determined to get breast reduction surgery. My mother had had it in her 50s after years of back pain & fruitless bra shopping - she had a relatively easy recovery & is happy with the results. When I was 20 I asked her to set up a consultation with the same surgeon for myself, & she readily agreed.

The surgeon examined my breasts & confirmed that I was a good candidate for the surgery - in fact, due to a relatively low proportion of dense tissue vs. fatty tissue, I could potentially see a much greater reduction in size than my mother had, with the possibility of reducing my E-cup breasts to a small C. The surgery would be covered by OHIP, which does not cover cosmetic surgeries, as the surgeon would say it was treatment for back pain. I booked a date.

Thing is, I didn’t really have back pain - neither did my mom at 20 years old, with much bigger breasts. Looking back what I had was mild dysphoria. I’m a lesbian who was a tomboy growing up; my early puberty mortified me in so many ways. Big breasts were the first devastation, closely followed by the revelation that the growth plates in my hands had closed by age 12, meaning that I would stay short & slight with big breasts as an adult. I was miserable; I felt I looked like a cartoon character. Everything I had liked to wear suddenly looked ridiculous on me. I could no longer pass for a pre-pubescent boy. Men on the subway stared at my chest, even in my school uniform. It’s likely that I will develop back pain, like my mother, later in life, but the truth is I fixated on this surgery for purely cosmetic reasons, and was able to get support in passing it off as a real medical issue.

Shortly after my consultation, pandemic happened, my surgery was postponed, & I started reading gender critical & radfem content. I reacted with visceral horror & deep empathy to women whose self-loathing had led them to mastectomy & other medical self-harm. I realized the importance of bodily integrity, how we take it for granted, & I was forced to consider my own hypocrisy. I was in my early 20s and healthy; I’d only had one surgery in my life with a general anesthetic, an oral surgery as a child. I hated going to the doctor, could never remember to take pills - I would be especially ill-suited to medicalized life. I learned that the human body can only go under anesthetic so many times, that surgery is always risky, that the body perceives a traumatic loss. I was so young & had no idea what the future held - I could be badly injured, or get severely ill, at any point in the next decades. I could need surgeries to save my life. Did I really want to weaken my body by going under the knife because I didn’t like how I looked?

I decided against it. I took a highly physical job involving lifting, to which I had to walk a fair distance; losing a bit of weight & building some extra muscle improved my self-image to the point where I barely thought abt my breasts. I stopped wearing underwire bras & learned what clothing I felt good in. Today I feel completely neutral about my breasts - I’m grateful to have a body that is healthy, intact and whole. I never would have gotten here without radical feminism.

#radfems please touch #breast reduction #anti plastic surgery

[sapphsorrows]

Really disturbing documentary on the plastic surgery industrial complex in the US, specifically in regard to BBL's.

Plastic surgeons do not care about you. They only care about making money.

#video #anti plastic surgery #Youtube

[terfezis]

actually at a loss for words. toe shortening surgery? toe shortening surgery????

#my posts #radfem #radical feminism #anti beauty industry #anti plastic surgery #anti beauty #terfs please interact

[coochbasedoppression]

this (very beautiful) woman posted about normalizing aging without getting work done and growing to love parts of her body that she used to hate. i knew the comments would be bad but i’m pissed off

a lot is just general run of the mill sexist looks bashing and women in denial that they will also age one day.

but the comments that made me angriest as a feminist were the “pick me” comments and providing unsolicited skin care advice

1. “pick me” has just turned into a way to other any woman that isn’t buying into hyperfeminine consumerist bs. nowhere does she say ALL women born that year look like she does. she’s just trying to show someone confident in her own skin while also knowing that she has some gray hairs and some wrinkles. and people jumped down her throat for being proud of herself and happy with her looks. the projection is so real

2. i think the skin care shit might be worse than the makeup industry (ik they’re really one and the same). at least with makeup we’re all aware to some extent that we’re putting stuff on our faces that we have no idea what ingredients are in it. and if you have just a smidge of feminist consciousness, you know it’s bizarre to paint a fake face on your own face every day.

now with skincare, they’re able to easily disguise it as something good for us. something above criticism because it’s “self care”. but the result is still that women that look like adult human females are disgusting and need to be put in their place

#radfems do interact #radical feminism #radfem #radfem friendly #anti plastic surgery #plastic surgery

[ladyhearthkeeper]

I recently read that the latest trend for women was to hollow their cheeks wit plastic surgery.

Apparently it's all the rage on instagram... I don't know if it's the case since I'm not on it.

It makes me so sad that some girls and women feel like they have to do this to be beautiful, desirable, worthy... Why are they doing it? It's a form of self mutilation.

The women portrayed on the article, including some celebrities, looked ill or like they had survived a famine.

Do men find this attractive ? Is that what's it's about? Is our sense of what us beautiful tainted by what the algorithm want us to admire?

What happened to natural beauty? Have we reached a point of no return?

So many questions... Add to that the number of women who have body dysmorphia because of social media and apps that filter and tweak their pictures.

If you feel like this.. Please remember that you are beautiful. No image can rival with how beautiful you look when you laugh or talk about something you love. You are lovely.

And dear men, protect you eyes and your ability to see true beauty. Don't let algorithm and images distort your appreciaton of beauty. It's your duty to protect your gaze.

#traditional femininity #traditional masculinity #Beauty #anti plastic surgery