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They Mutilate Kids in Korea, Gangnam Style!
While my fellow Americans cut off their kids’ penises or breasts on a whim and make with the hormone-blockers, here in Korea they have found another reason to mutilate their kids — their concept of beauty. I’m still not 100% sure what that means, even after all this time, but it definitely means the looks given to you by Mom and Dad’s genetics weren’t enough.
The “double eyelid” surgery is the one you hear most about. Gotta get that “Western/caucasian” looking eyelid. (Don’t know how they do it.) Anecdotally, the cartoon characters drawn by kids here, as well as those used in advertising and YES, even military recruiting, all have ping-pong-ball round eyes.
“Our noses are too flat.” Gotta rhinoplasty the Korean out of that nose! Western noses look noble. Our noses are flat.
Our faces are too round!
Plastic surgery: Middle school and high school graduation presents. Holiday gifts. A gift to help you compete in the job market. A gift to help you join the entertainment industry. Advertisements are everywhere.
It’s a sickness. When the West exports the trans craze over here, it’s gonna explode. Whatever movement develops in America over decades, happens in a flash here.
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I always wondered why all the anime characters had round, often blue, eyes. Westerners seem to be adopting the bright hair colors of the anime, but at least that’s not permanent.
20 years ago, plastic surgery was an open secret in Korea. Now it’s damned near mandatory.
The big difference between cosmetic surgery and gender affirming surgery is your nose still works after a nose job, and your eyes still work after an eyebrow tick.
And then, there’s this guy. YouTube “influencer”, transgender, de-transitioning “back to male”. You have to read his whole story about the plastic surgery he voluntarily underwent. He wanted to look Korean!
And you look like a mannequin.
There’s also the leg-lengthening mutilations, to increase adult height. The upper legs are broken, spacers placed, the legs are lengthened a mm a week until the desired effect is reached. Then the lower legs are done to match.
Then the arms, so that the patient doesn’t look like a thalidomide victim.
It’s sick.
https://getittall.com/surgery-to-get-taller/
My Korean-born daughter is 4-10.5 and has the loveliest almond-shaped eyes. I could not be more in love with her appearance. She has just the face, and just the height, that God intended for her.
Aww!
My like is for the SECOND part of your comment. Good for you!
I also believe Tommy John surgery should be banned for minors.
One of our friends in Thailand is of Chinese origin. Several years ago she told us she was thinking of having that eye surgery. She felt that Chinese people in Thailand experienced a level of discrimination. We were horrified and protested vehemently! She was adorable just as she was, and for one reason or another (maybe the expense), she decided not to go through with it. What a relief!
It is one of the conventions of the art form that the eyes of the characters look neither East nor West, but a kind of neutral in-between.
Somewhere between blue and brown, I guess.
Worse than nose jobs and circumcisions in the US?
I would wager it’s MUCH more prevalent here, particularly for middle school and high schoolers.
Sorry, but I object to comparing circumcisions to the current plastic surgery disaster. There are other issues, and I exclude religion, but circumcision is both well-established and not abusive or punitive; neither does it derange nor feed into derangement of the subject.
It is what it is. Check it and see.
It’s safe to say circumcised guys still manage to have plenty of babies with their wives, and enjoy it.
Similar to rhinoplasty and eyelid surgery.
Yeah, not at all.
And guys with bobbed noses can still smell the roses. To our credit, I don’t think we practice the leg-lengthening “cosmetic” surgery described by Doctor Robert.
I don’t read between the lines. Never knew how. If you’ve got a point here, please spell it out.
Rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery and circumcision don’t seriously damage the functioning of the organ involved. If we wish to approve of one surgical procedure and not the others, we need a reason to do so beyond the fact that one of them doesn’t destroy function. None of them do.
Is there something wrong with the reason “Pointless bodily modification is bad”?
Nose jobs, eye jobs, and boob jobs are all deception. They misrepresent the genetic offer. Circumcision instead is a corrective/hygienic measure easily 10K years old. Not all wolves are able to reproduce. Not all humans are either, but humans did something about it. It’s a practice old enough that any associated mutations are likely meaningless by now.
Equating circumcision with nose jobs is ridiculous.
Yes, but if you get circumcised will your first time still feel like the very first time?
Especially to elementary and middle schoolers, which was my point.
We have one. Conservatives can name it.
I suspect it would feel just as urgent either way.
Not at all. But that’s a reason to condemn all such procedures, not to differentiate good ones from bad ones. My point is that criticizing Koreans for acting on their “concept of beauty” is questionable coming from a society that celebrates rhinoplasty, breast augmentation and liposuction. (We can leave to another day a discussion of whether circumcision should be included as an example of “pointless bodily modification”.)
I wasn’t trying to make the point that plastic surgery itself is bad. I was pointing out that just as the pro-trans loons in the US want to mutilate children, status-seeking parents here in the ROK allow the mutilation of their kids.
Meaning that we need to determine what is pointless in order to distinguish good from bad ones, and that we must do all this prior to condemning any?
If so, we agree. Why are you disagreeing, and what are you disagreeing with? I’m lost.