Specifically, regarding the aesthetics of it. I think people who've had it are scary looking. For example, have you seen photos of Burt Reynolds recently? His face is stretched so tight that it looks like a rubber mask. How could anyone think that looks good? Isn't it better to just be old and ugly and normal, instead of looking like a freak? Do Americans just have bad taste?
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It reminds me of the Pig People on Twilight Zone.
48809
they think its cool and it makes them llok grown up at a very young age just like smoking. they think its sexy and will get a guys attention i personally dislike that idea and think its chioldish to get it at a young age and wrong! but as someone else said its better than a tatoo you can get it off priceless!
536498
I agree 110% . But when in the 4th movie ( Goblet Of Fire) he looks HIDEOUS... I don't know why they even showed it.......Thats a good question
377226
I don't think they are neccessarily sexy, but they are unique to the individual.  They tell a story about that persons life and you should not be ashamed of showing it off.  I have a scar on my thigh from a dog bite and I think it is really ugly, but it is a part of me that made me the person I am today and whenever I go swimming or on holiday I never try to cover it up.  Of course people will stare, that is human nature.
130229
Mmm, I think because they are associated with little boys, and grown adults find seeing a grown man in tighty whiteys strange, as if they still are little boys.\n\n\nI personally think they look goofy.  I'm Canadian tho lol
110595
I thought that they were very annoying when they were little. I don't think they suck, I really don't care either way. Their fashion trends certainly are not good examples to our teenagers. One thing I can say is I hope that our girls learned about the dangers of eating disroders from Mary Kate. \n\nThey really need to give it up. Their fame and fortune is wearing them out at a young age, I am glad to see that though because it is showing today's young people that the glitz and glamour of Hollywood is not all that it is made out to be.
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It's a rich and luxerous community. The richer you become, the more focused you would be on problems which less rich people would consider minor or not so significant(like acne, imperfect teath, blemished skin etc), besides, the culture promoted by the very strong and acive media is focused mainly on appearance, which gives it an unpreceded importance in the american society never before experienced in history. Fat or unsocial kids can get harrased and have real trouble at school and sometimes there are suicide attempts because of that, etc.\nYet this tendency of perectingone's looks is not a result of an asthetic sense or of developing  ahgher senstivity towards beuaty, but is mainly due to accumilating great sums of money, the proof to this is that it goes parallel to a very wide spreed symptoms of obessity. If you ever travel to the staes, you would be amazed by te precentage of fat people there!!\n\nThe same symptoms have been present in almost all society during eras or remarkable economic growth(The french used toeat and vomit so they can enjoy more food , the spanishused to make the beds of the nobility from pure gold, etc)\nIt is perfectly naural to act pampered when you can afford it:)\nThe drawback is , of course, is the possibility to become softer, or to be unable tounderstand how do poorer people think, or what types of life they could endure. and this could be a very serious drawback  sometimes.
230691
LOL\nI see a lot of american indians and they aren't ugly to me. I mean as they age they start to look alittle funny. Long face and all but I don't think they are ugly!
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I have often wondered this, too. I found a pretty good article on the subject, if you would click on the link below. It doesn't really promote it, but it doesn't condemn it either. It, basically, lets you take a look at the reasons in your heart for doing it, and where you stand with God. \n\nThe Bible warns us against getting wrapped up in our looks, but it also says that we should try to make ourselves look good for our husbands (different words of course).\n\nIn response to Catlins Playhouse's remark, sin is sin. I say that because of her comment "do you think God is going to be mad at you when all these other people..." God will judge us based on His laws and the convictions He places in our hearts. If you go to have cosmetic surgery and you feel the Holy Spirit urging you not to, but you do it anyway, you will be judged on that. \n\nI'm not telling you not to do it. I think you should pray about it. God will let you know.
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America has the most unrealistic standards of beauty in the world. Especially for women. Males want to see stick-thin women with a little meat on her, but the "meat" has to be lean meat. American women are the most hairless people in the universe since a smooth woman is the American standard. The unrealistic "American beautiful woman" can be seen on cartoons and comic strips.  Long, curly-wavy hair, perfectly waxed/plucked eyebrows, no other facial hair but a properly-placed mole is fine, full lips, quite buxom, a tiny waist that makes one wonder if they have all their organs, and long smooth shapely strong legs.  It does make many women hate themselves and head for the plastic surgeon.  It especially messes with teenage girls' heads causing them to starve themselves, be depressed and even cut themselves to feel better about their image. Male advertisers are to blame.
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WELL IT DEPENDS BECAUSE IS THE PICTURE NASTY?IF IT IS ITS PROBALY BECAUSE ITS LEADING TO SEX. OR SOMETHING. bUT I KNOW WHAT U MEAN WHEN PEOPLE GET ON D**M NERVES IT DON'T MAKE SENSE IT MAKES YOU WANT TO BIT THE SH*T OUT OF THAT PERSON TRUST ME I KNOW PEOPLE WHO DO THAT ALL THE TIME. U HEAR ME?
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It's a natural act, performed by virtually all animals on earth.\nSo it's not bad in and of itself.  It's PEOPLE who make it bad by putting peer pressure on folks or glamorizing rough stuff or porn.\nSex was meant to be intimate and enjoyable.\nNot profitable.
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I didn't see it until years after it came out. I thought it was going to be really lame, because I had seen it lampooned so many times.  But I actually found it quite scary!  I hate the part when they're inside the tent and there are noises outside, but they can't see what's making the sounds or really tell anything useful about them;  there's something really primally frightening about that situation.  And I still sometimes have a shivery thought about the figure of that floating woman covered in horsehair.  For some reason that image really freaks me out.  Sometimes, a scary effect is all in what is hinted at that you --don't-- see.
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It is all part of the unfortunate society we live in today.  People judge everyone based upon outside looks, and they demand change of others before they are accepted.  This of course seems wrong, but it has become more accepted, since people believe that it really does not do any harm.  Instead, they think it does good, case in point the girl on Oprah that looked amazing after the surgery.  But truth of the matter is that she is not truly her after-surgery self.  She was who she was before the surgery, and that is the way others should have learned to love and accept her.  This requires a fundamental change in society, one that I am afraid will not come about anytime soon.  It will certainly gets worse before it gets any better.
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This is an issue that stems back from the 1960s.\n\nAs you may or may not have known, during the 1960s, America suffered huge cultural and social changes. One of them was the rise of the Hippie Movement and Youthquake, which went against what people at the time-- especially Conservatives-- considered "moral", "traditional", and "upstanding."\n\nBesides the obvious sex, drugs, and rock and roll they indulged in, Hippies also dressed and changed their appearances in ways that offended Conservatives and the Establishment at the time. One of the things they did (the males) was grow out their hair and start growing beards and mustaches at a time when men were expected to be cleanshaven and have the shortest hair possible. As a result, any man who started growing his hair out became associated with the whole Hippie lifestyle and was seen as unfeminine, unAmerican, a derelict, and a subverstive.\n\nWhat you are seeing now is a holdover from those days. Many people still assume that men with long hair are in some kind of subversive lifestyle (drinking, partying, drugging, etc.). Either that, or they're just seen as stoners and slackers. Unfortunate type of prejudice, but it still remains there, nevertheless.
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No I agree with you. In many cases you either have bad plastic surgery or repeated surgeries and you get that shiny, plastic look, which is not appealing. Not a natural look.
606539
I think you are really insecure if you need people to tell you what they think of you.  It's what you think of yourself that matters.  Everyone looks good at our age (ok, not everyone) but personality is what matters..........when we are 80 we are all going to sag and droop, you better have something to talk about other than your younger years and how great they were/you looked.  Personality and sense of humor go much, much further with me.  Looks can go at any time.  What if you were in an accident that left you disfigured and unable to work out for ever???  A personality might come in handy....ya think?