pythons
04-11-2009, 10:07
Did anyone else see this programme last night? :eek:
I just happened to catch it on Channel 4 at about 10pm, I'm sure it'll be available on 4oD for a while. If you didn't see it then basically it was a documentary following the lives of a bunch of people who were taking steps in order to change their appearance particularly with regard to their ethnicity.
I was staggered at some of the comments coming from some of these people. They had such distorted views of themselves and in some cases sounded quite unwell. It just seems such a shame that people are willing to have serious, life risking surgery in the name of what is essentially vanity/prejudice. Some of the comments were ludicrous, the glamour girl prior to her nose operation saying "I don't really care about dying, just please don't make me look ugly whatever you do, don't make me look ugly". Post nose op she was saying that people now give her far more respect and that she is now able to walk into Waitrose with her head held high and that the new nose makes her look far more wealthy. :shrug::nuts:
The surgeons who perform the work always seem like really revolting people too, they feed directly into people's insecurities and are more than happy to operate on people who seem (to me at least) to have deep psychological issues as long as the money keeps coming.
It was really sad to see some of these people trying to explain their motivations. Up until now it's not something I had really given a great deal of thought to aside from the whole Michael Jackson spectacle (who of course gets a couple of mentions).
Really crazy stuff.
Mark
I just happened to catch it on Channel 4 at about 10pm, I'm sure it'll be available on 4oD for a while. If you didn't see it then basically it was a documentary following the lives of a bunch of people who were taking steps in order to change their appearance particularly with regard to their ethnicity.
I was staggered at some of the comments coming from some of these people. They had such distorted views of themselves and in some cases sounded quite unwell. It just seems such a shame that people are willing to have serious, life risking surgery in the name of what is essentially vanity/prejudice. Some of the comments were ludicrous, the glamour girl prior to her nose operation saying "I don't really care about dying, just please don't make me look ugly whatever you do, don't make me look ugly". Post nose op she was saying that people now give her far more respect and that she is now able to walk into Waitrose with her head held high and that the new nose makes her look far more wealthy. :shrug::nuts:
The surgeons who perform the work always seem like really revolting people too, they feed directly into people's insecurities and are more than happy to operate on people who seem (to me at least) to have deep psychological issues as long as the money keeps coming.
It was really sad to see some of these people trying to explain their motivations. Up until now it's not something I had really given a great deal of thought to aside from the whole Michael Jackson spectacle (who of course gets a couple of mentions).
Really crazy stuff.
Mark