Physical alterations are often promoted by celebrities, doctors, and patients as a psychological intervention. Should they be?
the self, Widdows argues. And that means improving the body is now a moral imperative—a thing of great importance, a reason to act, a way of signal one’s inherent goodness to others, and a way of, maybe, feeling some of that inherent goodness in yourself. But as almost everyone knows from lived experience, the stakes of having a “good body” can feel perilously high: The body-as-self has infiltrated every aspect of life.
This isn’t the fault of the individual, or an accidental shift in cultural moors—there is an entire system of goods and services and images that have made things this way. “Beauty products can only replace the confidence that beauty standards stole,” says. And of course, a main driver of beauty standards are the people and corporations hawking the beauty products that claim to help you achieve them.
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