Letters to the Editor
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So what took them so long? Where have you guys been?
A nightclub in the Tampa Bay area was doing that several years ago, but I guess if it doesn't happen in LA, San Fran or lower Manahattan it doesn't make the radar.
I learned of this through a story in the way-above-average St. Pete Times called "Kenya's Quest." The lady at the center of the story (her first name is Kenya) entered such a contest because after several kids and middle age her bust was not what it was. The contest was simple - women get up on stage and verbally humiliate themselves by bragging about how badly they want a boob job. Kenya was roundly booed for not being slutty, as the winners were.
I've read some sad stories in journalism over the years, but that story had a creepy level of sadness. I know, it doesn't compare to Congolese rapists or Dafur, it's just that it was a description of comebody in a community like the communities we live in every day being systematically humiliated. I was also left with one other thought: can the doctors who hire out to give boob jobs as contest prizes really look at themselves in the mirror and say this is part of the high ideals of being a doctor? I guess the money talks.
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I love LA!
I wish we all could be California Girls.
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what do these people actually do?
The guys at the club, I mean. I may live a sheltered collegiate experience, but I don't know a single guy who prefers silicone to the real thing. Even may gay friends think fake boobs are freakish. I mean, seriously. Even given that men's minds are in the gutter, who wants to feel up plastic?
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I've been wondering about that, Rosen
Could it be that most men would rather look and make hooting noises at their drinking buddies than actually get closer? I remember reading of a survey among college kids in, I think, Pennsylvania that given the choice of (a) getting some but not being able to tell about it or (b) not getting some but being able to brag about getting some, most of the respondents chose (b).
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Surely there's a joke to be made...
...about who the real boobs are in this situation. I'm having trouble finding exactly the right words. Anyone?
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MAV in Florida - Sad is correct
"I've read some sad stories in journalism over the years, but that story had a creepy level of sadness. I know, it doesn't compare to Congolese rapists or Dafur, it's just that it was a description of somebody in a community like the communities we live in every day being systematically humiliated."
You make a good point. The sad part about this is that despite all we have in this country, women often still choose to systematically humiliate themselves. It seems like a slap in the face to those women in the world who have no choice at all in their suffering.
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Speaking of bobbing for boobs
What's up with the new Salon advertisements for the dating agency, with the little live videos of women flashing cleavage? Sometimes there's three different women dancing around my screen pushing their boobs practically in Glenn Greenwald's cartoon face.
It's not dignified. And a bit off-message.
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what are the guys doing?
while a club full of women with low self-esteem slowly gets drunker and drunker?
even if they're not into girls with implants, they're into easy girls. and a girl who will think more of herself if she has bigger boobs is practically the prototype for the "easy girl."
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OT: targeted advertisements
What's up with the new Salon advertisements for the dating agency, with the little live videos of women flashing cleavage? Sometimes there's three different women dancing around my screen pushing their boobs practically in Glenn Greenwald's cartoon face.
It's not dignified. And a bit off-message.
It's targeted advertising; somewhere, at some time, a cookie was set on your computer that is telling the ad server to return those specific ads. Different users are going to see different ads depending on what the ad server sees on that cookie.
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The taboo of body modification
Why is there such a taboo on body modification?
A couple decades ago, tatoos and body piercing were fairly taboo, now it's commonplace.
In the future we may look at boob jobs, plastic surgery, injections etc. the same way we see tatoos and body piercing now.
(btw, I'm playing Devil's Advocate more then anything. I can't stand fake boobs)
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@Tronic
I'd say there's more of a stigma because
1) you usually don't have to take out a loan to get a tattoo.
2) tattoos don't involve a hospital stay
3) getting plastic surgery and boob jobs imply that one is unhappy with their body structure--they tend to say "I don't like the way my nose/boobs/butt look and I need surgery to fix the problem". Tattoos just say "Hey, my boobs would look even better with a picture of Aerosmith on them."
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The L.B. is not L.A.
Long Beach is not Los Angeles. You can blame L.A. for a lot of things, but let Long Beach get the blame for this one.
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Oh well: just another sign of the coming Apocalypse.
Ladles and jellybeans, on one extreme I give you Al Queda and their medieval fundamentalism, and on the other, Americans competing for free boob jobs. Like matter and anti-matter, the combination is lethal.
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@ Grungie
If there were a best-post-for-boobs contest here at Salon, that explanation of body mod v. silicone would get you a pair of c-cups at least.
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Booby prize
If you wanted breast augmentation, would you feel comfortable going to a doctor who would play along with this?
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Grungie, doesn't your third reason just come down to ...
"People interpret tattoos one way, and people interpret implants another."
Which leads right back to Tronic's question. Why do people interpret tattoos one way, and implants another? Why do people assume that implants suggest someone is unhappy with their body structure, and assume tattoos suggest someone wants to decorate their skin? Why don't people assume that tattoos suggest someone is unhappy with their skin, and assume implants suggest someone wants to reimagine their body structure?
I personally don't understand either one for most people but can understand implants under certain conditions.
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Who cares?
Who cares? Why is this any business of yours? If you don't like it, guess what? Don't patronize them.
How is this any different from ladies night, ladies get in free night, ladies 2 for 1 night, ladies get to make a free false allegation night?