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Dove follows ‘Evolution’ with ‘Onslaught’
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October 1, 2007 | Permalink |
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The plastic surgery part of the film kinda fooled me. Who is going to talk to their daughters?
Do statistics lie?
Women had nearly 10,500,000 of the total cosmetic procedures performed in 2005 accounting for 91.4 percent of the total, declining 2 percent from 2004
The top five surgical procedures for women were Lipoplasty (liposuction), Breast Augmentation, Blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery), and Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), and Breast Lift.
Men had 985,000 procedures, approximately 9 percent of the total, down 15 percent from 2004.
The top five procedures for men in 2005 included Lipoplasty (Liposuction), Rhinoplasty (Nose reshaping), Blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery), Male Breast Reduction and Facelift.
People between the ages of 35 and 50 had the majority of procedures: 5.3 million and 47 percent of the total. Those between 51 and 64 had 24 percent of the procedures, patient’s between19 and 34 had 24 percent, those 65 and older had 5 percent and 18 and under accounted for 1.5 percent
Posted by: | Oct 1, 2007 11:18:10 AM
I like the onslaught of images, kinda like the onslaught of fast food places i feel like when I am riding down the road, but I still need Ronald McDonald to sell me an ice cream cone every once in a while. Gotta give that clown credit.
Speaking of which here's my source for all those statistics if you wanna talk to a friend, even if you don't have a daughter. The pros and cons are up to you.
http://www.cosmeticplasticsurgerystatistics.com/statistics.html
Posted by: nancy | Oct 1, 2007 5:42:40 PM
"The top five procedures for men in 2005 included Lipoplasty (Liposuction), Rhinoplasty (Nose reshaping), Blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery), Male Breast Reduction and Facelift."
---That's because women are doing to men what men have done to wone for year, demand unrealistic expectations of a body image impossible to attain.
Luckily, not every man is a douchebag metrosexual and not every woman consideres Vogue to be "the bible."
Kudos to Dove for telling it like it is.
Posted by: Bobby | Oct 2, 2007 12:28:17 AM
It's not that hard to stay at a weight where liposuction is not required, Bobby. Really.
I'm lazy and unemployed and can do it.
Posted by: nancy Krabbenhoeft | Oct 2, 2007 12:45:51 AM
"It's not that hard to stay at a weight where liposuction is not required, Bobby. Really."
--You forget that everybody's different and loses or gains weight differently. That's why if I lose 20 points I don't go around telling people how easy it is because what worked for me may not work from them. The fact is that even among the athletic there's a huge gap between being where they want and where they are. I've seen gorgeous people have terrible poor body image thanks to fashion advertising. Why do people get liposuction? Because they want absolute perfection. It's not enough for some women to be a size 6 when they sees some model photoshopped to look like a size 0.
Posted by: Bobby | Oct 2, 2007 11:32:27 AM
Well, call me silly, but most of the people i look and compare myself to are on the street not in pictures and photos.
But mostly i have one pair of faded blue jeans with patches that i find hard to tear myself from that i will always use as my comparison. And I think it's largely the goodtimes and experiences (no sexual connottions intended) of those jeans that make them a good measuring stick. You know if iwas feeling that good in those jeans I must have been looking good.
Every woman has a pair of those jeans that are worth to much to give away to goodwill.
Posted by: | Oct 2, 2007 11:46:10 AM
here whatever--it may want to sell soap or start a conversation, but nobody sings about soap. People do sing about their blue jeans, which I am betting in America is still the best measurement of feeling good and body image.
this is old but still relevant to pop culture:
http://www.cottoninc.com/lsmarticles/?articleID=168
Posted by: nancy | Oct 2, 2007 1:07:40 PM
