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Originally posted by barely_legal
You're right, we should probably let this die before we bore everybody to death. But I would just like to point the hypocrisy of saying that women get botox b/c they are responding to society's view that aging is bad so botox is ok. But women who get implants are not responding to society's view that bigger boobs are more attractive -- apparently those women are just in the sex business or are lower class.
In both cases, women are doing something to make themselves feel more attractive. And both procedures come with serious risks. To say that one is ok, and the other is trashy is ridiculous.
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PP,
As I've said before, those most prone to make class distinctions are those most uncomfortable with their class status. Phrased otherwise, if you have to blather about class, chances are you don't have it (whatever the hell you define it as, since your definition of class is conveniently fluid enough to change to fit whatever tortured argument you are offering).
I'm just a dumb hick (no Mayflower lineage here) but I've been a member at a few golf courses since I was a kid, and I know which forks to use, etc... I'm qualified to recognize the difference between nouveau/obnoxious and "class," so I'll offer you this observation - your posts do not evidence one who has a reservoir of what the white shoe crowd considers "class." Class is keeping your status in your pocket. I have never heard an old WASP talk like you. To the contrary, I've heard doctor's wives and overextended lawyers' kids ramble on about how "the new money wrecked the neighborhood." I've heard comments like yours among women exiting their leased Benzes at Neiman's or Saks in the King of Prussia Mall or Short Hills. And I've heard those same hollow laments from stupid young brokers and leveraged tech people at the bar in the Breakers. Your comments are all very Boca, but they ain't Palm Beach Proper.
That you made breast implants into a referdum on class underscores my points and leads me to the suspicion that your diatribes on class are deflections of insecurity about your own status. I'd say your comments sound like they were lifted from Yeats or Fitzgerald (two of the the most unabashed unworthy class critics of the 20th century) , but they actually come off more like Bret Easton Ellis.
S(you want judgment, you got it)D
