Plastic surgery to improve dating success?
I watched a news report recently that featured a young lady who made the decision to get plastic surgery in order to improve her dating choices. Apparently, her chin, nose, or whatever body part she displayed on her online dating pictures did not garner the dates she really wanted.
She truly believed that her flaw was the source of her dating disappointments. I don’t know if this is extremely sad/disturbing or if it is a sign of the times. Are we becoming more shallow?
The idea that we have to chase some standard of beauty to attract people who seek partners solely on their looks just does not sit well with me. Obviously, we won’t to feel confident and attractive to people, but at what cost?
I wonder if the young woman ever considered writing a new profile instead of getting plastic surgery. Why does changing the outward appearance become more important than finding someone who likes us just as we are?
Maybe I am being too critical? What do you think. How do you think plastic surgery impact our dating habits?
Have you ever dated someone who has had a little nip/tuck? Was their improvement/change the thing that actually attracted you to them initially?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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236 comments Add your comment
ThirdWheel
August 20th, 2012
4:29 pm
Hey Demi!!!!
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:31 pm
Single ~ bet she’s rubbing her hands together like a villan waiting to find trouble…
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:33 pm
Meant, don’t THINK i’m fooling anyone with those thoughts. This is only the first day of class and 3rd day away from home (lol).
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:35 pm
Nevermind. I’m giving up on that sentence…
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:38 pm
Leggs you seen the commercial where the kids leaving home and forgets something before he gets in the car, goes back in the house and the parents have changed his room that quick. Or the state farm commercial where their kicking the kid out (LOL) That’s me and disco. (LOL)
disco
August 20th, 2012
4:41 pm
on my son’s graduation day he told me that he remembered my telling him on that first drive over to drop him off at school that he had better not call me talking about college wasn’t for him. I apparently told him that if he dropped out of school he would be homeless because he was not coming back to my house. I bust out laughing because I didn’t really remember saying it but it sounded like something I would say. he obviously believed me because he handled his business.
Comon Cents
August 20th, 2012
4:42 pm
S/H & disco were skipping through the campus singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” when theirs left home.
Comon Cents
August 20th, 2012
4:44 pm
Speaking of which, what are some things you SWORE you would never say as a parent, but found yourself saying them? I used to say I would never say “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, ould you do that too?”
I had said it before he was 4… SMDH
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:45 pm
Mine didn’t go to college, but they’re doing alright
cba
August 20th, 2012
4:46 pm
CC~I’m sure Billy Payne had several sleepless nights trying to come up with a conservative, non-threating black woman that the rest of his ilk would approve.
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:46 pm
#1 Cause I said So!
#2 cause I’m grown!
#3 if you don’t sit yo a$$ down some where you better
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:47 pm
I spoke to parent of one of her roommates and she was excited about getting back home. She said “she had plans and prospects” lined up. Gonna be honest…I said dang, look at your sloppy self and you got prospects lined up. Of course I said this to myself (lol).
Comon Cents
August 20th, 2012
4:48 pm
cba~ My thing is, why would I want to go to a place that hates me because of my skin color anyway? So, they gave us a token member who will most likely NEVER golf there. Kind of like the PDC in Atlanta. They are all dying out because people just don’t buy into that old money/racist crap anymore.
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:50 pm
#1 = because I said so!
#2 =do as I say and not as I do!
#3 = sit your narrow ass down somewhere!
Bluzgirl
August 20th, 2012
4:50 pm
RIP Phyllis Diller…a true legend…
Good night folks…”see” ya tomorrow!
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:52 pm
I know I’ve never said #1 and #2. I think I’ve said #3 once before. I didn’t finish reading the sentence before answering.
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:52 pm
Comon I’m sure some will try to compare it to the movement of the 50’s and 60’s, but to me it’s different, because we never have to spend any money there.
Leggs now now, you know there’s some one for everyone
cba
August 20th, 2012
4:53 pm
Oh, maybe it’s her connection to Tiger and Stanford. He said, she’s a friend. It always help to have inside connections
disco
August 20th, 2012
4:53 pm
well here’s one – though I don’t recall ever saying that I wouldn’t say it – “I’ll beat the black off of you”. that one’s classic.
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:53 pm
#4 you bout to get on my last nerve (where the hell is yo last nerve) lmao
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:55 pm
#5 don’t make me have to come back/in there
disco
August 20th, 2012
4:56 pm
S/H – that reminds me of my son asking what “upside” was when he was really young. talking about grandma was always threatening to go upside somebody’s head.
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
4:56 pm
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
4:57 pm
Disco evidently it work, cause he had to ask with out finding out the hard way, which reminds me
#6 a hard head makes a soft behind
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
5:04 pm
#4 – I’ll know you into next week..keep talking.
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
5:05 pm
#4 = I’ll knock you into next week…keep talking
#5 = You’re about to pick your teeth off the groud if you keep it up.
disco
August 20th, 2012
5:06 pm
our version was “shut your mouth and keep your teeth”
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
5:09 pm
I like your version, disco! Most definitely.
Comon Cents
August 20th, 2012
5:14 pm
“Wise old owl he sat in an oak. The more he heard the less he spoke. The less he spoke. The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird?” – My granny used to say that.
“I’ll come in there and give you something to cry about!”
Comon Cents
August 20th, 2012
5:15 pm
S/H~ My granny used to say the hard head makes for a soft a$$” Not only that, she had the “Tree of Knoweldge and Wisdom” in her front yard. And if you messed up, she would insert some knowledge and/or wisdom directly through your rear end.
i'm swiss
August 20th, 2012
5:16 pm
Beans, beans, the magical fruit…
Leggs
August 20th, 2012
5:17 pm
And the all time favorite:
This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you!
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
5:23 pm
Leggs, I remember thinking, then why the hell am I the one felling all the pain (LOL)
Comon Cents
August 20th, 2012
5:24 pm
Leggs~ Which is in no way true EVER!
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
5:29 pm
Didn’t you just hated when they talked you while beating you and expected an answer, and got bad when you didn’t give one
Single and Happy "Today Monday is a GREAT day to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be HAPPY"
August 20th, 2012
5:30 pm
mad when you didn’t give one