In another sign of the impending apocalypse

[textualdeviance]

We now have a children's book explaining why mommy is getting cosmetic surgery.
Maybe it's just me, but personally, I think having cosmetic surgery in the first place should be grounds for being considered an unfit parent. Fair enough if there's something actually wrong--a crooked nose from a break, for instance--but vanity surgery is dangerous and stupid and sets a horrible example for kids: You're not acceptable the way you are, and in fact, you're so unacceptable that you need to undergo extremely painful surgery and risk serious complications or even death in order to become acceptable. How can sane people think this is an ok message for their kids?

Gods, our priorities are so screwed up in this country.

Comments

[aprivatefox.livejournal.com]

The irony here is that this is a vanity press book, which nobody would have ever heard of if not for Newsweek running an article on it in order to manufacture this controversy.

When this first hit, I'd have said "nobody will ever read this book" - it had no publicity, no marketing, and a print run of less than 5k copies. Now, with all the national media attention, the outrage against it is poised to make the book a viable market performer.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

True, true.