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Plastic surgeons can't implant self-esteem - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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Plastic surgeons can't implant self-esteem

By Mike Seate

TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Monday, April 21, 2008

I'm riding in a car with two co-workers when I explain why I hate strip

clubs.

"They're full of trashy, drunk women who get breast implants," I said.

My comments, oddly, are greeted by a very noticeable silence. After a

few miles, a co-worker breaks the silence.

"My wife has breast implants. Getting them doesn't make someone trashy,"

he says.

OK, so I've got my left foot firmly planted between my gums, but ours is

a fascinating collision of opinions. On one hand, my insistence on

viewing breast implants -- the most common form of surgery in the United

States today, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons --

as inherently trashy and cheap must reveal me to be incredibly out of

date and prudish.

On the other hand, unless a women has suffered a mastectomy or some

other disfiguring malady, why, you have to wonder, are 347,000 American

women subjecting themselves to painful, wholly unnecessary surgeries

each year? And these are operations that, let's be honest, make them

look like amateur porn stars or dollar-a-dance strippers.

My buddy in the car claims his wife had breast augmentation because she

wanted "more confidence" in the workplace. This is a common rationale

for the operations, which can cost thousands of dollars and leave women

potential scarred, not to mention with a set of appendages that more

closely resemble the Hindenburg than anything Mother Nature devised for

feeding infants.

Apparently, boobs that resemble World War II-era airships are all the

rage, as the number of implant surgeries has boomed from 212,500 in 2000

to 347,000 last year.

This despite silicone gel implants being banned by the U.S. Food and

Drug Administration from 1992 to 2006.

What women want to do with their bodies is their own concern. But what's

sad about all of this is how easily women -- and we're talking educated,

post-feminist, working women who earn enough money to pay for elective

cosmetic surgery -- can be fooled into believing that big boobs will

guarantee them confidence and respect in the workplace.

These women could save themselves a lot of pain and wads of cash by

simply speaking to women who were born well endowed. They'd find that

few, if any, D-cup women feel naturally confident because of their

breast size.

In my 45 years, I've yet to meet a large-breasted woman who didn't wish

she were smaller or one who didn't agonize over how much unwanted

attention her figure attracted from men.

So for the love of all things natural, ladies, have a chat with a friend

before putting yourselves under the knife. You just might learn that

self-confidence has nothing to do with cup size.

Mike Seate can be reached at mseate@... or 724-320-7845.

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