This video shared
an extreme story with us, in which a 16-year-old girl, Christine, had her breast augmentation
surgery due to her difficulty at school. Everyone made fun of her due to her unsatisfying body. Christine cried when she told the journalist her hard
experience at school. Supported by her mother, Christine had her breast
augmentation at sixteen. Fortunately, the surgery was a success. Christine felt
happy not only with her outside change but her inside confidence.Most of the viewers commented below the
video that Christine was too young to have the cosmetic surgery. She would not
stop growing her breast until 21 or 22 years old. And she did not have to worry
about her weight since 120 pounds is not fat at all. She could consider transferring
to a new school to get away of abuses and mocks rather than having cosmetic
surgery at underage. There were also viewers supporting her by saying that "we
should not be shaming teenagers for wanting plastic surgery, we should be
helping them instead."
I intervened a few comments below the
video to try to bring civility back into the argument and to relate this debate
with my semester topic. Firstly, this video well reflected my semester claim
that cosmetic surgery could enhance patients’ emotional confidence as well as
social status. As showed in this video, Christine suffered mocks at school,
making her difficult to endure. However, after the breast augmentation, she
felt happy with her change and felt more confident in school. Secondly, this video went
against the qualifier of my semester claim that only people over 18 years old
could be permitted to have cosmetic surgery. Christine is only 16. She was too
young to have such kind of surgery. She had a bright future to become more
charming and sexy when she grew older. I used argument of authority as learned
in class, citing an old saying in Asia that “a girl changes eighteen times
before reaching womanhood”, which means that girls are likely to become beautiful
as they grow up. I used policy claim by insisting that Christine should be
banned by her parents and doctor to do the surgery at 16. If things will not
become better after 18 years old, she can choose to do the surgery at that
time.
My comments:
Reply to Alexandria Faber:
Women usually do cosmetic surgery because they want to enhance their social status as well as their confidence. You know, women with good looks can find a better job easily. Good looks also help their marriage and human relationships. They have their rights to change if they want. However, in this case, I will not support Christine to do cosmetic surgery if I were her mom. She is only 16. She is too young to have such kind of surgery
Reply to MissInstinctualism:
Xiaowen Jiang
Respond to cjfelldownagain:
Indeed, teenagers also
have their right to be more beautiful. But, they are growing up! I don't think
their parents or clinics should be helping them to do surgery at such an early
age. As an Asian saying goes, " A girl changes eighteen times before
reaching womanhood", which means that girls will always become beautiful
naturally when they grow old. So, you do not have to pay for plastic surgery.
You will become good as a teen.
Her mother should have
a second thought as well. Mother can do more at home to encourage her daughter
out of depression, can help her to do more exercise and better diet, can help
her to move to a new school, can tell children that you are the best in the world,
and can promise kids that they will be permitted to do cosmetic surgery when
they become older. Sending kids to hospital so early is definitely not a good
idea.
Moreover, the doctor
SHOULD decline plastic surgeries for children, unless they are burnt or with
serious birth defect. In this program, I appreciate the doctor's hard work and
success, but I do not think the doctor's choice should be advocated. Doctors
should turn to many other patients who need cosmetic surgery more.
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