Vanity is cringe enough even without literally chopping yourself up in its pursuit.

I can tell you why certain boomers hate/hated it, from what they’ve shared out loud:

Because apparently it means you might end up with ugly children but not know. So they say it’s a form of deception.

Those people also usually dislike make-up too.

My daughter says she hates it because it means money can make you look better.

I kind of like that though - it is more democratic than “natural beauty” being the standard. If beauty is something you do or buy, maybe people think it’s cheating, but how is that worse than it being luck?

Don’t imagine I’ll ever have enough $ to want to spend it on cosmetic surgery, but I knew a lady with bad skin tone - she had a baby and was overweight, lost the weight but her torso skin stayed stretched out, all saggy. She got a tummy tuck and boob lift and holy cow it looked amazing, she felt so good about her body and said “it cost as much as a car but I will drive my body much longer than my car.”. Nobody is going to convince me that’s a bad thing that she ought not have done. She wasn’t disfigured before, she did it to look good and she sure did.

Every person owns their own body and should modify it however they want. I am not against even creative cosmetic surgery, you want elf ears, go for it. And I do not think ugly people are under any obligation to get modified so that they look “better” either. Whatever the individual wants, it is their call. This is one situation where I really feel it is not my business at all.

ITT people who dont undersrand the difference between objective data sets and anecdotes.

Vast majority is unnecessary and winds up looking worse.

I will tell you from personal experience it sure makes you feel a certain way when your insurance denies a treatment for a life-threatening condition and that same system says that unnecessary treatments are a fine use of resources.

For me, I find it sad. There is so much pressure on people (especially women) to look a certain way. I find beauty in uniqueness. When a certain “look” becomes fashionable, you see a lot of people get the same face. Then, you see people get “addicted” to the surgeries, and end up looking totally alien.

Because your face says a lot about you. By modifying it, you’re lying.
Not my conviction, but that’s the subconscious reasoning.

It often makes people look terrible

gee I don’t know, maybe it’s because these poster children are bonkers?

Dunno… why do people hate fake money so much?

It’s a very vain thing to waste your money on that most of us cannot afford.

I don’t blame people for getting it when they have exceptional flaws, but for normal people to get it is rather disgusting.

It’s self mutilation in response to a mental illness cause by societal pressures and misogyny. Chopping up your face to appear younger, should not be something anyone feels the need to do.

Not all cosmetic surgery is this. Helping burn victims or people who have suffered injuries, nothing wrong with any of that. There’s lots of legitimate reasons for cosmetic surgery to exist. But so much of it is the symptom of a broken society.

Probably a lot of noise coming from the incels.

I’m a bit split on the whole topic.

The cultural reasons for why people get it done are bullshit. Maintaining youth, eliminating every single perceived flaw, and so on. Making people believe that they are worthless without their good looks. It’s a culture that isn’t healthy for our minds or bodies.

On the other hand, some of the insults levelled at people who have had cosmetic surgery are incredibly vicious and I don’t think it’s fair. Much of it is misogynistic when directed at women, and homophobic when directed at men. I believe everyone is entitled to full autonomy to do as they wish with their own body, as long as noone else is harmed by it.