Would we care if she wasn’t white?
March 25, 2008
Rhetorical question – of COURSE we wouldn’t, silly!
The local rags are going apeshit over the death of a local high school girl.
A white local high school girl.
An 18-year-old white local high school cheerleader girl.
An 18-year-old white local high school cheerleader girl who died after getting her boobs done.
Sure, it’s tragic and sad and all when ANY child dies so I’m sure plenty folks are right to be upset and all – like her parents, any sibs, other family and such and so they should be left alone to grieve, process the pain and consult their consciences with respect to the enormous guilt they should feel over authorizing unnecessary plastic surgery for a teen.
But the rest of you holding vigils and prayer-fests outside the school? You guys commenting in the paper, on TV and radio about how life will never be the same?? Take your forcibly public moment to be all sad and think about missed opportunities and ‘what could have been’ and stuff like that and then grow the eff up and move the on — ‘kay kiddies?
Nutshell moment folks:
A priviledged teenaged white girl from Boca died after BREAST AUGMENTATION SURGERY.
*And just by way of clarification — unless she had a third arm growing from one of her boobs or they were totally concave or one weighed, like, 200 pounds or something — this surgery was not necessary. And, as most cosmetic procedures are elective and quite expensive– the ‘privileged’ tag stays.
Point:
Her death should instantly become a cautionary tale — not a movement for martyrdom.
But she was white — so it’s alright …
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knbber2 | March 25, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Pretty gutsy not signing the post. Kind of hope you have some surgery scheduled for your ugly ass.
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thewonkette | March 25, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Looks like someone (white) took their defensive pill this morning …
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anothertry | March 25, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I think the issue is more about ANY teen having a boob job. You’re right. She shouldn’t become a martyr, but a cautionary tale to all the other teens out there who want a boob job so bad.
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Kyle | March 28, 2008 at 7:17 am
Get off the soapbox. Prick.
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Noni | March 28, 2008 at 10:46 am
it’s sad, to be sure, but I keep coming back to the fact that this was so preventable. themore I read about this – inverted nipple? That’s not life-threatening. it’s cosmetic — just so sad that girls feel so much pressure to be perfect that they have such adult things done to themselves so early on. Just sad really.
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Sheldon R. | April 22, 2008 at 10:09 pm
The initial Post story included a number of references to the fact that the girl in question was a rich Boca chick (e.g. they worked in the fact that she drove a white Lexus to school, even though it wasn’t relevant to the story). The Sun-Sentinel, on the other hand, bent over backwards to characterize the procedure as corrective plastic surgery, and it seems like the Post adopted the same tone immediately, losing all traces of judgement from subsequent articles… I’m sure the change of tone played better with readers who prefer to dwell on the tragedy of something bad happening to a pretty, wealthy, popular blonde cheerleader (twenty years of Extra! and the E channel will do that to you)
But I was happy to see that the Post at least followed up on the fact that insufficient medication was on hand for the girl’s allergic reaction to the anaesthesia, because that speaks to a bigger story: the trivialization of plastic surgery in today’s society. Had this major surgery occurred in a hospital instead of an outpatient facility, this girl might be alive today. But I guess people would rather think of plastic surgery as something you’d get at a spa, like a facial or something, instead of a collection of scary elective medical procedures… Instead of requiring ultrasounds for women seeking abortions, people seeking elective surgery should watch a video of the procedure before they get to have it…
shell
shell
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shell | April 22, 2008 at 10:12 pm
p.s. to knbber2 : I’ve seen The Cookie’s ass, and it’s far from ugly. I think Jackie Childs from Seinfeld would say that “it’s real, and it’s spectacular”
shell
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lifeisacookie | April 22, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Good points all — and you touch on the primary point from which we began — unnessary surgeries.
This was unnecessary surgery and it certainly did not have to be performed on an 18-year-old.
I liken it to those who have Lasic performed and then bitch about the outcome if they have deterioration of vision — it’s elective surgery on the only exposed internal organ we have.
If you are vain enough to be driven to that kind of ‘correction’ then there is little sympathy to expect.
Your last comment is something everyone should have to commit to before undergoing any type of cosmetic procedure … maybe more will now?