If there's one thing that bothers me about this country...

[MrScorpio]

19. I'm actually saying neither...

And this is not just about this particular woman, but about an ideal image. An image that is promoted by commercial interests that implies that a person's particular natural look is somehow inadequate, and the only solution for this is to go under the knife or the needle.

The surgically altered image, which gets exposure in the media; reality TV shows, movies, fashion icons, wealthy people in general, is then set up as an example of what people should strive to look like.

What happens next is you have people in general finding themselves in the hands of people who have Botox parties in living rooms and getting surgical procedures to "enhance" perfectly functional body parts.

It would be something else entirely if healthy lifestyle things like exercise, good nutrition and an avoidance of UV rays are promoted instead of what we're seeing in those pictures.

But who's going to make money from stuff like that, right?