December 22, 2006 at 6:57 pm (Plastic Surgery, Silicone Breast Implants, Women)
The Houston Chronicle has a good article with some smart points “The Feminine Mistake, Better a Brain Implant”.
There is a fair amount of criticism of the ways in which the FDA and women are seen to be overlooking the dangers of silicone, but better still is a look at breast implants as being contributors to the continuing objectification of women.
Columnist Katha Pollit notes, “Women have learned to describe everything they do, no matter how apparently conformist, submissive, self-destructive, or humiliating as a personal choice that cannot be criticized because personal choice is what feminism is all about. Women have become incredibly clever at explaining these choices in ways that barely mention social pressures or male desires.”
Read the entire article here.
What do you think? Is it a choice? Are we as women pandering to the chauvanist, objectifiers? Is our whole sense of beauty developed from some unrealistic ideal put upon us by men?
Or in the end, have we come too far in the current feminine ideal to turn back?
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December 22, 2006 at 5:48 pm (Plastic Surgery, Silicone Breast Implants)
After a 14 year ban, Silicone Breast Implants are back. The plastic surgery community and many, many women are incredibly excited — and then of course there are the manufacturers.
ABC News Coverage
As a relatively good yardstick of the buzz being developed, one can always look at Google trends to see how people are searching for Silicone Breast Implants and Silicone Implants.
As you can see, there is a big spike around the time of the FDA announcement for both Silicone related searches and plain old “breast implants” searches.
It’s pretty clear this is a big deal.
Among the benefits of silicone implants is they are more “realistic”, and due to their structure are more believable in slimmer women.
Because saline implants lack the gel-ness, if you will, you can sometimes see their bag through the skin if the patient doesn’t have significant flesh to cover them.
For this and a number of reasons, there has been a long wait for Silicone Breast Implants to come back and I’ll be posting occasionally about the news and latest data.
Thanks for your interest!
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