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AIBU to think there's an awful attitude on MN to cosmetic procedures?

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PeachSundae · 01/06/2025 08:47

Morning all.
trying not to make this a taat. There is a current thread running about a woman who had 0.5 lip filler, and her husband isn't happy about it. The comments are filled with bitchy, nasty women tearing her down.
multiple women on here say that anyone with cosmetic procedures looks 'fake, like a blow up doll, like a prostitute, like a duck, trout pout' and the list goes on. The comments are abhorrent. Yes, there are some very bad / botched jobs out there. But so many posters say 'filler never looks good, you can always tell' etc etc. you wouldn't notice good filler, that's the point. You will evidently notice bad filler.

cosmetic prosecutes can be invaluable to people. I was diagnosed with an incurable cancer at 23, gruelling chemotherapy sapped every single bit of life out of my face. I aged overnight. I've had cosmetic work done to my face to try and get a bit of normality back, it's been a godsend for me. No amount of therapy or counselling would've done that. And some people don't want therapy or counselling! Some people aren't doing it to be vein, some are like me and doing it for my reasons. Also, so what if people are doing it for vanity! It's so nice to read the assumption that I look like a blow up doll, and that I look fake. Without even seeing my face and without knowing what I've been through.

AIBU to think this whole 'trout pout, every woman with filler looks like XYZ' is just horrible? The comments on the other thread are nothing short of bullying.

if you're one that judges so badly on what other people do, why? Why do you care? If you do judge, you are not on some sort of morale high ground because you're 'au natural.'

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WigglywagglyWanda · 01/06/2025 22:05

I'm a simple soul.

Im not arguing with the whole society view normalising this but personally for me it was literally looking in the mirror and looking very sad, my mouth pointed way down and big lines from nose to chin.

I wasn't trying to look younger, I was happy inside and wanted to look how I felt.

I do think it's a little hypocritical though, some folk telling us that we shouldn't give a stuff about how we look and then taking the piss at how it looks.

I'm very happy, I'm in my 60s and my face looks happy, it's not complicated.

Waits for the posts telling me I should be aging gracefully🤣

Edited

I agree about the contradictions with 'don't worry about what you look like and conform to beauty standards' which is quickly followed up with 'I'm going to judge you for what you look like if you get cosmetic procedures.'

seems fine one way and not the other.

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