On 20/09/2011 01:10, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXG38QxXY-s

Not only worth watching but compulsory watching, I think. Thanks Andreas
for this great link. I'll be watching the movie Good Hair next week-end.

Yes I suspect light brown caffelatte skin is becoming a sort of norm
now. In fact by watching American TV series, I would not be surprised if
the light brown woman is the one who's here to stay and join the team,
and the dark brown woman is the one being killed during the episode, or
not a recurring character.

On a more general scale, I first became aware of the dangers of
unnecessary surgery by working for sports instructors a few years ago.
If you imagine that sports physical enhancement will remain forever the
mere injection of chemicals, well you're wrong. There is going to be
carbon-fiber bones, all sorts of weird things.

Now as far as average women are concerned, there is a deadly combination
of :

- the natural tendancy of women to take care of their appearance
- new bio technologies
- business interests eager to combine the two.

But that will create Frankenstein's monsters really. Uneducated women
are going to get convinced that their shoulders are too large, their
hips to narrow, their humerus too long... it will really become crazy
and extend to whatever possible.

And then there is the problem of the consequences when growing older. In
this case of skin whitening, even if the laboratory says it's safe, it
nevertheless compulsorily means intervening in the skin as deep as the
pigments, so frankly it doesn't sound that good to me.

So I would compare it to food disorders or pathological gambling. Even
if adults do that of their own free will, responsible institutions
should not go that way.

Arnaud

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