Posted by jay on May 24, 2004, at 23:58:57
In reply to Anyone watching Swan?, posted by partlycloudy on May 24, 2004, at 19:50:37
> This show is very disturbing to me. Like a >plastic surgeon and a physical trainer can >correct an unhappy existence - one contestant >had "dealt with" her depression. What the heck >does THAT mean? What do youse guys think?
Yeah...I find it sad, and the thing is...we all grow old, wrinkled, even if we aren't overweight. In some ways, there is a bit of what Dr. Peter Kramer called "cosmetic psychiatry" in our pills and such, but most of us are just hanging on.These people's faces will eventually start to fall apart, things will get bent out of shape...that is just Mother Nature's fate we *all* will suffer. I can understand the concern with weight, especially as we get older and are more prone to disease. I am really working hard, like many of us, trying to lose weight (as I am somewhat overweight), but the plastic surgery for such miniscule things turns my stomach.
To learn a good moral from this story..I'd suggest people watch the movie Shrek 2.
Yeah!
Jay
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