solution there one of the other things is that i think it's kind of obvious how a lot of plastic surgery trends are sort of rooted in either white supremacist beauty ideals and also the fetishization of the features of women of color and there's also the aegis aspect where you're getting plastic surgery in order to maintain uh youthful looking features and i i think that these labels make the issue sound very black and white and very demonizing towards plastic surgery and i don't think it's as black and white as it sounds yes there are definitely aspects within plastic surgery where for example with nose surgeries you know no one's getting nose surgery in order to make their nose more ethnic looking it's usually always getting plastic surgery on your nose in order to make it look as you know vanilla as possible so the issue is not you know plastic surgery itself the issue is the beauty ideals and i think we can also help is like identifying our own ethnic background and appreciating it in a non-nationalist way obviously for myself personally i'm starting to kind of understand that i don't need to cater to the patriarchal white supremacist beauty ideals that you know i have been very much embracing for my entire life when i was young i was very blonde and that was a feature that i got so much praise for and you know it wasn't something that i was in control of it wasn't something that i achieved but everyone acted like it was just such a big deal and so impressive and now like i completely understand that that comes from you know definitely white supremacist beauty ideals but also from a culture here in greece where people definitely have a lot of xenomania for the blonde blue-eyed foreigners that visit the country and me having one of their features was considered like such a bonus for me and now at this point i'm just like no thank you i do not want any of this attention i do not care about it because it means nothing to me the praise about being blonde means nothing to me at this point and so i just want to go back to my natural hair which is much much darker and that's it and you know that obviously has nothing to do with plastic surgery but it has a lot to do with understanding our own like roots and like me understanding that i am mediterranean you know i'm half greek have portuguese i'm never gonna look like a leggy blue eyed blonde and i don't want to anymore and that's been very you know satisfying for myself to work through that and to work through all the conditioning that i received in this culture that that was the ideal standard of beauty and me realizing that you know what the people that look like that good for them but that's not the heritage that i come from that's not how my ancestors look like and what i want to do is start embracing the features of my heritage and start accentuating that and start embracing that that being said i think the reasons for getting plastic surgery vary tremendously it can range from very problematic for example you know white women treating women of color as like a catalog of features that they can just purchase and place on their face which i think that definitely not okay it can also be done in order to fit better into beauty standards that are imposed by the patriarchy
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