Culture Watch: Body Image and the Media

Reason #389 why I try not to take my daughters with me to the grocery store check-out line: the new edition of US Magazine has the screaming headline "Revenge Plastic Surgery," telling the story of a beautiful young television star who got "revenge" on boys who always teased her for being flat-chested.  Her revenge?  Why, getting breast implants, of course!  Because if there's one thing we need to teach young girls today, it's that the best way to deal with their own insecurities about how they look is to anticipate the day when they can accept their own surgically-enhanced self.