From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 16:25:42 MST
EY>> Amara, while I'm in general agreement with your sentiments here, the last
>> sentence is a pure non sequitur. The pragmatic truth is that plenty of
>> people who can't stand their current bodies would be quite happy with a
>> Primo 3M. Yes, genuinely happy.
AS> From my readings in the psychology of body dysmorphic disorder, I would
> say that quite a few people who are currently unhappy with their bodies
> would be just as unhappy if they got a Primo 3M. The problem isn't that
> there is anything wrong with the body, but the acceptance of it or the
> expectations of what a future body would mean to oneself.
Sure, but there's a vast sea of difference between body dismorphic
disorder and a simple dislike of some specific feature. Eli's clearly
right: there are huge numbers of people who would be quite a bit
happier with simple changes, and the market for plastic surgery
proves it. For every Michael Jackson there are 100 ordinary folks
who just want a nose job or a tummy tuck and who are quite pleased
when they get it. And for many of them, the dislike is a quite
rational reaction to pressures from outside, not from within. Telling
them that their problems are all in their head and they should just
be happy with what they've got is unhelpful and insulting.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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