Media implants

I thought I'd mention how utterly wrong I think Extreme Makeover is. Firstly, it encourages people to get mostly needless surgery. (Okay, so it doesn't "encourage" it but it does portray the whole thing as being desirable... as I type this, it's on in the other room and the Cat and her mother are talking about what they'd like to have done.) Needless surgery carries risks and there's the whole six weeks of pain that people don't really take into account when indulging their vanity. Secondly, in the quest to remain looking young, it implies that there's something wrong with looking the age you are. And when you get the skin on your face pulled back, you don't have the same range of expressions you would normally have. Thirdly, it's completely indulgent, when there are people with seriously malformed faces, who, quite apart from looking normal, are hindered by their deformities. I dunno, I just think if you're normal looking, you're still pretty lucky. This was hit home to me (literally) when I broke my face in a sporting accident a few years ago. I was very lucky only to have my skull broken in three places (above and to the left of my left eye; my left cheek; and crushed bone under my eye socket). I needed reconstrucive surgery to push the depressed cheekbone back out and they drilled in a couple of steel plates to set it in place. You can feel one of them if you rub your finger below my eye. And in case you were wondering, no, it doesn't set of the metal detectors at airports. I know I'm lucky that I still look normal and that there's no external scarring. Is it wrong for rich people to be arseing around with amazing technology and medical advances while there are still people who could really use it? Not that I expect anyone to buy a facelift for someone in a third world country. It's just the imbalance of it all. Gluttony and vanity and all that. Anyway, here's what my face looks like underneath