It's IBARW!!! Misconceptions about eyelid surgeries

[apis_cerana]

And I didn't really know what to blog about at first, since I'm constantly throwing out random thoughts about race without ever really focusing on it...but then I saw this Youtube video

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It's a short, very interesting documentary about eyelid surgery

Comments

[enlisted_smile]

What ARE double-eyelids and monolids, exactly?

[apis_cerana]

Monolids: presence of an epicanthic fold; double-eyelids: look like this.

[enlisted_smile]

Ahh, okay. Thank you!

[riotlounge]

See, I've always really eschewed most forms of elective non-medical (aka not crisis reconstruction) plastic surgery because it really feels like it fixes an "out problem" and not the "in problem."

I'm fat, whatever, my boobs sag but I guess I feel I should be spending time/money/effort on working on being okay with my shape and exercising and encouraging others to accept that as well as myself rather than getting lipo or boob jobs, etc.

I cannot speak for eyelid surgery but generally I think a lot of ANY ideals of beauty don't tend to take into account that ideals are generally an unhealthy image if you have to get surgery to "correct" yourself. Modern media does a lot to enforce this and it makes me sort of ill.

[myrrhmade]

Ugh, especially after my spectacular fail at sf_d, I hope I'm not a white knight. =[
As a side note, my best friend's Korean and she thought about it too. I think she's gorgeous no matter what she does, but the choice is hers and I would never judge that.

[basepair]

White knights are white people who still want to make choices for POCs. For example:

"Asian women shouldn't get the double eyelid surgery."
"Black women shouldn't perm their hair!"

Whereas a white ally would recognize the validity of all potential choices made by POCs:
"It's unfair that society punishes black women who don't perm their hair."
"There are many complex reasons why Asian women are encouraged to have double eyelid surgery, and while I personally am opposed to any superfluous surgeries, and would like to live in a world where natural beauty is celebrated, I do not represent every Asian woman on the planet and cannot make her decisions for her."

[apis_cerana]

Exactly this :3 very well said!

[basepair]

Thank you! Perhaps I should write a book for my fellow white people about how to be a white ally. So Some Kid Called You a Cracker in 2nd Grade could be the title.

[pretzelcoatl]

The whole fact it is such an issue makes me really sad. :(

But this is a good post.

[fruhlings]

This is a really good post and gave me lots to think about. Thank you!