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Originally posted by barely_legal
I'm not asking you to change your opinions. But if you seriously believe that implants are the province of the lower classes, and are not just saying that to try to be funny, then I've lost a lot of respect for you. A lot. That is like me saying that I think all people who use Botox are over-the-hill crones trying desperately to hold on to the fading remnants of youth and stave off the ravages of time and the aging effects of cigarette smoke. Or Ryan Seacrest.
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I am not sure I would totally disagree with that description of botox, i would jsut say its incomplete. I would say that botox is also probably used a lot by peole who are afraid of getting old who may not be old yet, and afraid of looking old. again, society doesnt seem to pay much attention to women of a certain age. Or as Kathy Bates said to Frances Conroy on Six Feet Under recently when she was urging Frances to steal some lipstick, "go ahead, women our age are invisible". Madonna has addressed the issue saying, "what, I am forty? Am I supposed to disappear?". So why wouldnt someone who listens to this shit that society spews all the time not be afraid of aging? Why wouldnt they not automatically reach for the botox? shit. I guess its a matter of how you describe older women.
And I certianly did not refer to people who get implants as trailer trash proles (the equivalent of the over the hill women), I said people who are not wealthy or something. I might disparage people as proles in jest, yes, and as you know, I would not not be friends with someone bc they come from a different background than I- you know my friends are from all sorts of backgrounds pretty much. ANd I would never say where you come from predisposes what you are going to be and the limits on you and that coming from a certain background makes you a bad person. Its what you do with what you have. IN every single person's case. But I do believe, from my obervations throughout my years, that the majority of people who get implants are people form probably lower middle class to middle class. I havent seen the demographics, its just what I speculate is the case from what I have seen. And I am fascinated by people watching and demography and drawing conclusions from what I see. And you are free to disagree iwth those conclusions. I regret that you have lost a great deal of respect for me. I guess we cannot all like everything about each other. Nobody's perfect.
