The award for patriarchal bougeois decadence goes to…
New “gifts” for bridesmaids: plastic surgery
Apparently there’s some new trend of brides getting their bridesmaids Botox and plastic surgery and the like before the big day. You know, just in case American weddings weren’t enough about unrealistic expectations, consumerism and all-around bizarreness.*
Some brides pick up the tab for their attendants, replacing the pillbox inscribed with the wedding date with a well-earned squirt between the eyes. In other cases, bridesmaids — who may quietly seethe about unflattering dresses — are surprisingly willing to pay for cosmetic enhancements. “Most women, when they come in here, they want it,” said Camille Meyer, the owner of TriBeCa MedSpa. “They know they’re aging.” FULL at Feministing
Timothy R. Anderson:
A Cautionary Tale : Michael Jackson.
26 July 2008, 1:18 pmeatin kimchi:
hey Stan
been following your writings for the last 5 or 6 years
was wondering if you could post some of your stuff on english.ohmynews.com
its the english page of a Korean news site
its a pretty cool model of internet journalism
hope you are well
STAN: You can crosspost whatever you like. Have a bowl of neng myung for me, and be sure to eat noisily.
27 July 2008, 9:29 amMs Kitty:
Consumerism fuels the beauty myth that women’s beauty is skin deep and comes with a price tag. Sadly, in spite of the propaganda, happiness can not be purchased with money no matter how much you have. How ridiculously sad!
Keep sharing your love and your veggies!
29 July 2008, 11:34 amJimmy Higgins:
I remember making a speech against the coming invasion of Iraq at a VFP rally in DC. (Stan, you may have been there.) This was at a time when the media was running around with its hair on fire about Saddam Hussein’s supposed biological WMDs (WsMD?), purported to include 19,000 liters of botulinum toxin. We were on the Mall and I sarcasticly pointed out that if anybody wanted to do something about botulism, there were scores of doctors within a one-mile radius whose offices contained plenty of botulinum toxin, a/k/a Botox.
Lorry nose, I’ve never been particularly attractive, but I think even if I had had some youthful loveliness to try and regain, I would hesitate before having somebody inject me with what, to cite Wikipedia, is “possibly the most acutely toxic substance known, with a median lethal dose of about 1 ng/kg[3], meaning that a few hundred grams could theoretically kill every human on earth.”
30 July 2008, 8:57 amStan:
I was at the rally.
But hey, I’d let someone inject botulism into my face. It’ s not how you feel, daaling, it’s how you look.
30 July 2008, 3:32 pm