Do I Need To Make My Breasts Bigger?
It’s a question that a lot of women have started to ask themselves. But the real question surely is: what’s behind the trend towards body alteration? And what should you do if a lover suggests plastic surgery?
Anne Sexton, 18 May 2010
There are all kinds of theories about love – love should be unconditional, a lover should accept you as you are, and true love lasts forever. Nice ideas, all of them, but love, or what passes for it, rarely seems to work that way.
Take my friend Maria – she’s beautiful, intelligent, kind, generous, funny and sexually voracious, all qualities her now ex-boyfriend admired, but that didn’t stop him calling her a “jelly baby” after she picked up a few pounds.
Then there’s Greg. God may know why Sorcha dated him, because it’s a mystery to the rest of us. She didn’t like his hair or his clothes or most of his friends, but mostly she didn’t appreciate the fact that instead of chiselled abs, Greg was working a look best described as a slight paunch. She went to the gym three times a week, and didn’t understand, she said, why he wouldn’t do the same.
Finally there was the guy who texted into Red FM’s Victor Barry to ask me how he could persuade his girlfriend to get a boob job. She had many wonderful qualities and he loved her, he let it be known, but her breasts, well, they were just too damn small.
Readers, you don’t know me personally, but my friends would tell you I am very even-tempered. After years of struggling to get my fiery redheaded disposition under control I have succeeded and these days I rarely lose my cool. But there are times I’ll make an exception and this was one of them.
I tore him a new one, as politely as I could since we were on radio, but I’m pretty sure the words “asshole” and “don’t be” were bandied about. Of course, my friends might also mention that I am not excessively over-endowed in the chest department, which may go some way towards explaining
my reaction.
We live in a world where beauty is rewarded. Politicians with smooth faces are more likely to garner votes (Please explain Brian Cowen, Anne! – Sub Ed); tall men earn more money; attractive defendants get lighter sentences; good-looking people have more sexual partners than average and even babies are more likely to smile at you if you’re pretty. It’s unfair, but it’s instinctual.
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