Các cuộc biểu tình ible chống lại quá trình lão hóa dường như tất cả các đau đớn hơn khi họ flail chống lại các không thể chinh phục của vẻ đẹp trẻ. Người khác, nhưng nữ diễn viên aptly đại diện cho cuộc đấu tranh giữa waxing và vẻ đẹp suy yếu? Các cơ quan của nữ diễn viên gắn liền với kinh nghiệm khác hơn inarticulable và khuếch tán văn hóa và các đại diện của nữ tính. | Addicted to Surgery 285 ible protests against the aging process seem all the more painful as they flail against the invincibility of young beauty. Who else but actresses so aptly represent the struggle between waxing and waning beauty The bodies of actresses are affixed with otherwise more inarticulable and diffuse cultural experiences and representations of femininity. This is why what happens to their bodies literally as in surgery can have such profound effects on the culture. It is because we have projected onto them a certain representational status of the female body of how we are supposed to look at her feel about her contain her experience her what angles we are allowed to see and what angles are interdicted by the camera by the actress PROMISES PROMISES THE NEW WORLD OF CONSUMER CHOICE In the July 2000 issue of Vogue you will find one of this magazine s many predictably high-culture accounts of our fascination with cosmetic surgery. In contrast to something like say Marie Claire s middle-class menu of new and fabulous options for the masses Vogue s articles tend to sustain the upscale associations of the process Park Avenue surgeons Soho dermatologists Aspen socialites and so on alongside coy and ironic critique. The author of this piece Elizabeth Hayt poses such socially rigorous questions as So has fake become the new standard 200 . It s important for the self-reflexive aspects of the upscale articles to offset their true purpose the menu the possibilities the excitement of it all. Here s how you can tell. When you finish this kind of article you have a mild sensation of intellectual fulfillment after all this is supposed to be an intelligent overview of a cultural trend wedded to a surge of desire only of course if you are already predisposed for at least one among the many new procedures described. Whether we like it or not the reader is carried along on the wave of paranoia competition and consumer enthusiasm. On the surface such articles .
