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Why the fuck would you do this to yourself

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mommyfinger · 24/02/2025 20:20

Just why?
She was so pretty

I've attached pics for those who don't want to open the link

apple.news/Aqi9mdhewT5e4xuWXJAyK1Q

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TheCastleDoesNotReply · 26/02/2025 02:12

The thread had moved on a lot but actually what a pp said about face fillers, extensions, lip fillers rings true. It's just that this woman isn't doing body mods in that way and isn't acceptable and 'pretty' to their eyes, but what's the difference?

Weeeelllll... lots of people think that fillers, tattooed giant eyebrows, plastic breasts, duck lips, alien-like face lifts, gluing pieces of plastic to your hands and thinking it looks "glamorous", weird things that look like spiders glued above your eyes or dyeing you skin orange, or attempts to suck fat from your belly and inject it into your arse or whatever else. 🤣 The majority of people would find any of that vain and unattractive and it is like walking around with a neon light on top of your head advertising how insecure you are.

I'm not sure that highlighting that many people do these weird things to themselves and sadly believe that it makes them look better is a very good argument for advocating that it's perfectly normal to chop off half of your nose and dye your eyeballs, because it's not that much worse than the way other people wreck their faces and bodies with various levels of permanence.

Most people without mental health issues of some kind have no desire to spend their time or money doing any of the above.

sashh · 26/02/2025 02:22

pinkyredrose · 25/02/2025 12:52

Why did you put body modification in inverted comma's?

Because that is what it is called by those who do it and those that have it done.

In the article linked the CPS decided it was GBH.

Many consider it mutilation.

Why did you put an apostrophe in a plural?

pinkyredrose · 26/02/2025 02:25

sashh · 26/02/2025 02:22

Because that is what it is called by those who do it and those that have it done.

In the article linked the CPS decided it was GBH.

Many consider it mutilation.

Why did you put an apostrophe in a plural?

Did you really need to comment on my grammar?

Yes it's cakes body modification, still no need for the inverted commas

TheCastleDoesNotReply · 26/02/2025 02:30

🎂🍰🧁🥮

pinkyredrose · 26/02/2025 02:33

nahthatsnotforme · 25/02/2025 21:54

It's akin to any other vulnerable girl or woman being drawn in to any other forms of self abuse being told she did it of her own free will.

Huh? Being drawn in to self abuse?

Yorkshirelass04 · 26/02/2025 02:40

Cut her nose off to spite her face

ProfessionalPirate · 26/02/2025 02:40

AnotherDayComeMonday · 26/02/2025 01:58

What is the difference really? Can anyone answer that?
Extreme, she got part of her nose cut off.
Extreme, she gets a "boob job" ie, silicone or saline pumped into her breasts so they are larger.

They are not remotely similar, can’t you see that? It is relatively straightforward to reverse a boob job. A better comparison would be someone having an elective mastectomy for non-medical reasons. Although even this would be less ‘extreme’ imo because 1. Breasts are a far less visible part of the body, 2. Breast reconstruction surgery is considerably less complicated and more successful than nose reconstruction.

sashh · 26/02/2025 02:48

pinkyredrose · 26/02/2025 02:25

Did you really need to comment on my grammar?

Yes it's cakes body modification, still no need for the inverted commas

With the risk of sounding like a 5 year old, you started it by commenting on my grammar.

pinkyredrose · 26/02/2025 03:15

sashh · 26/02/2025 02:48

With the risk of sounding like a 5 year old, you started it by commenting on my grammar.

Only because it trivialised what this woman has done to her body.

Anyway, her look obvious isn't many people's taste but it's her body and her business.

AliasGrace47 · 26/02/2025 03:31

Gosh..to scared to click.
I was actually doing research on the Inuit custom of tattooing. My family disapprove a lot of tattoos in general, similar views to pps who think it's stupid & uncouth. I think a moderate one can be really cool- I read once Christina Ricci has a lion bc of the Narnia chronicles. And I get doing it for cultural reasons. If I were braver I might get a small one.

But fundamentally I find the idea of marking yourself w ink frightening, & this is an extreme manifestation. What will it do to her health? Let alone the Black Alien guy... Yhere's a reason full body tattoos are a sign of endurance for the Yakuza gangs in Japan. All that ink must be v unhealthy... I read once about a carnival lady who had the Last Supper tattooed on her back, pressured to exhibit by her husband. This poor woman is putting herself in an uncomftable position potentially

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Letskeepcalm · 26/02/2025 07:07

OrangeYaGlad · 24/02/2025 20:42

Are you quite well?

My thoughts exactly

Gloriia · 26/02/2025 08:03

Fillers can look equally as ridiculous if done to the extreme like that poor Jocelyn 'bride of Wildenstein' lady, but generally they are not.

This lady looks like she is featuring in a horror film, she looks absolutely terrible and no amount of 'her body her choice' changes that.

I feel sorry for her.

Btb · 26/02/2025 08:20

I would think she’s got serious mental health problems , she looks like a monster now horrible so sad

WhatterySquash · 26/02/2025 08:25

ProfessionalPirate · 26/02/2025 01:00

You can’t just ‘reverse’ a nose amputation. You think that cosmetic surgery is far more advanced than it is if you reckon a nose can simply be reconstructed like it never happened. It’s not like having a nose job or something. What do you think the surgeons are going to do, stitch a new nose on?

The surgery would be complicated. She would probably need some kind of forehead flap and separate cartilage graft, over multiple surgeries. People do not have these ‘all the time’. I imagine she would struggle to raise the funds.

If she ever did change her mind I think a prosthesis would be a better option than a long series of difficult and hugely expensive surgeries with no guarantee of success. I saw a documentary about people getting face prostheses where they had lost an eye or ear and they were impressive.

I think the “bodily autonomy” argument has its limits and in reality we don’t, as a society, actually say everyone has the right to do what they want with their body all the time, and everyone else has a right to aid and abet them. If we did there would be no attempt to prevent suicide or self-harm for example. We understand that these things can arise out of MH issues and sometimes a sign that people need help or treatment and can recover and not want to do those things. People can be persuaded or coerced into doing all sorts of things “willingly” if they’re vulnerable, involved in a cult, etc. it’s not straightforward.

Grammarnut · 26/02/2025 09:11

BatchCookBabe · 25/02/2025 21:39

This. ^ 'Her Body Her Choice' trope is a load of utter bullshit. Sick of reading this nonsense on this type of thread tbh. 🙄

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Questioning the idea that 'her body, her choice' is not bullshit. Sex positivity, a trope of Kinsey, who used paedophiles in his sex research, is not a good pathway for anyone. It allows such phrases as 'sex work is work' and that children have a right to sexual pleasure - an idea that plays straight into the hands of paedophiles. As for 'sex work is work', I agree with the Communist Party (on another thread): a woman's body is not a workplace.

PearlyShamps · 26/02/2025 09:18

What concerns me most is the permanence of it. In 2019 her favoured look was the bleached hair, false eyelashes, fillers etc - quite a mainstream look, and not unique at all. Then she has decided that she no longer wants that look, and made these extreme changes. What happens if/when she decides she no longer wants this look??

I know so many people who've changed their minds, or come to regret their tattoos. Under clothing they can be hidden, which I presume makes that a little easier to live with - but right there on her face, she will not be able to hide.

I know lots of people getting cross at the suggestion that she's mentally ill - but I believe she is going through some kind of trauma to make such extreme life changing decisions. And yes, they ARE life changing decisions.

teonaidh · 26/02/2025 09:39

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BoudiccaRising · 26/02/2025 09:46

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Well my dear, you’ve just gone and lost your argument if you have to resort to personal insults. Ho hum.

BoudiccaRising · 26/02/2025 09:48

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And you had the gall to say about being kind? 😆🤣😂

mommyfinger · 26/02/2025 09:56

Did someone's mask slip?

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C36M · 26/02/2025 10:03

BoudiccaRising · 26/02/2025 09:46

Well my dear, you’ve just gone and lost your argument if you have to resort to personal insults. Ho hum.

Surely this whole post is a personal insult to the person OP posted about. People are so judgemental and vile

BoudiccaRising · 26/02/2025 10:09

C36M · 26/02/2025 10:03

Surely this whole post is a personal insult to the person OP posted about. People are so judgemental and vile

No, this lady has put herself out there to get attention, of course people are going to talk about her positively or negatively.

Naughty teonaidh went off on one to the two posters who said they don’t believe in the ‘Be kind’ stuff, using amongst others ‘rotten bitch’, fucking minger’ and my personal favourite ‘ya boring gowl’ 🤣😆

fedup1212 · 26/02/2025 10:13

You sound very worked up @teonaidh

@XenoBitch if we're being honest everyone has judged someone for something. It's human nature and anyone that says they don't is lying IMO.

Children do notice differences, as do adults. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say young children would be scared looking at her. 🙄