This documentary made me cry and now I'm angry as hell

[beelikej]

Most of you probably won't be able to watch or understand this documentary, but it made me cry out of frustration and I really need to share. I urge you to watch it if you can. The second half is filmed in the USA, so it's in English with Dutch subtitles.

"Beperkt Houdbaar" ('Limited Shelflife' or 'Over The Hill' (official English title)

Documentary maker Sunny Bergman is 34 and scared of losing her beauty, while at the same time she's angry about how women are judged on their looks all the time. She talks to editors of fashion-magazines, psychologists, plastic surgeons and 'patients'. Not only about botox, big(ger) boobs and tummytugs, but also about laser labiareduction. Yeah, you've read that right: as soon as you look more like a woman than a girl: get ready to be cut.
Sunny even gets into that lovely gynaecologists chair herself and films the surgeon between her legs during the consult. He tells her everything about her body is wrong and she is definitely a 'candidate' for surgery. FYI: Sunny is a very healthy woman and 'normal' looking mom of two kids.
What made me cry was the interview with a fifteen year old girl (15. years. old) and her mom who -based on (photoshopped!!!) pictures in Playboy magazine- were convinced there was something wrong with the girl's vagina and she needed to be operated on. Her mom was surprised that her medical insurance didn't want to pay for this 'neccessary' operation on the 'disformity' of her child.

It made me cry and curse at the same time. What the fuck?

Comments

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

And one more thing... I've tried botox and I don't recommend it! I didn't take it to reduce wrinkles, I did it as a profylactic migraine medication, but a side effect is the anti-wrinkle effect :-) (Since 4 out of the 20 shots were to be injected in the forehead). I hated it! I couldn't raise my eyebrows etc, and I ansolutely hated not having all the face exprtessions! I'd rather have lots of wrinkles than a "dead" face!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

I really don't get this whole obsession with wrinkles. It's called living and experience and I wouldn't mind if that's what is showing in my face. I'm told I do look younger than my age, but that's basically because I never smoked, I stay out of the sun and luck (if you want to call it that;) Women with no expression on their faces scare me and I usually don't care for their opinion, because I'm shallow like that.