The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.
-Naomi Wolf
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#sexual-violence
#self-esteem
#pornography
#plastic-surgery
#objectification
#mass-culture
#marketing
#magazines
#images
#feminism
#fashion-industry
#equality
#eating-disorders
#double-standards
#diet-industry
#culture
#cosmetics
#cosmetic-surgery
#body-image
#beauty
#sexuality
#society
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