ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY: AGAINST COSMETIC SURGERY

In today’s society, beauty in a woman appears to be measured by the size of her waist or bust, by the thinness of her body and legs, the straightness or her nose and even the thickness of her lips. Women all the world over, are driven by media and advertisements to try to meet society’s unholy standards of perfection. Cosmetic surgery is the tool bequeathed upon humankind by science, to help achieve this level of “perfect beauty”.

In the East, women have had their calves reshaped for longer legs, and their jawbone shaved for a slimmer face. Eye-fold surgery is now the most popular cosmetic surgical procedure among Japanese women, in an attempt to make themselves look more western like the actresses they see on television. On the other side of the world, having fat vacuumed off various parts of the body is very popular, as is having silicone injected into breasts or lips, in a bid to make them appear more voluptuous--any of these processes, being none too safe.

c knowledge and wields it like a wand, helping change nature to fulfill desires in a person’s desperate search for a beautiful body and perfect features.

Is it our right to take a knife and chop up our faces, to add bits and remove pieces to our bodies just to suit our own liking? Just so we can feel better about ourselves?

The shiny knife of cosmetic surgery distorts the appearances nature bequeathed upon each of us; it enables us to play the role of god in helping us readily discard the bodies we were born with and come up with something almost, if not entirely different. We are taking our faces, our looks, which are supposed to be created by genetics and experience and simply slicing and dicing away at them, just because we think that since we now have ability to be able to do so, we also have the right.

Society must realize that cosmetic surgery will not change lives dramatically, only appearances. So, beauty is really not about how thin a person is, or how straight their nose is, but rather the person as a whole, inside and out. Inner beauty shines through to the world.

Some topics in this essay:
, Daily Campus, Barbie Ken, cosmetic surgery, self hatred, outer appearances, people’s appearances, role god,