ok if this were real i would first ban like being a billionaire, puppy mills, etc but i think most people feel the same so those feel too obvious.
it is a hot take to some but i really hate plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes. tho i will say i can make an exception for ffs and restorative type surgery after an injury
so for one, cosmetic surgery is way more dangerous than media and celebs say it is. for example, 1 in 3000 people die from a BBL !! a cancer-causing type of breast implant was only banned in 2019 ! nose jobs can lead to collapses and deformities! unnecessarily changing your appearance is absolutely not worth risking any of that!
but the biggest reason i would ban cosmetic surgery is because it just fuels beauty standards. and the whole thing with ideal body standards is literally just informed by eugenics (racism + ableism) and misogyny. think about nose jobs! many nose types, like hooked or wide noses, are never chosen as the “ideal” nose, you only ever see like 3 exact noses in people who got a nose job. even when you google “aquiline nose” half of the images are plastic surgery before/afters of people who had aquiline noses “fixed”
almost all cosmetic surgery is basically done to achieve WASPy beauty standards and i think that’s really fucked up. i would never want to reinforce those ideas for myself or others by conforming to them. i think cosmetic surgery also sends a really toxic message to young people, especially teen girls. i know i always wanted a nose job growing up and i think that’s super fucked up!
if you are so so dissatisfied with your appearance that you want to permanently change it, you need therapy not surgery! i am 1000% not a “my body my choice” person when it comes to cosmetic surgery because that “choice” has not occurred in a vacuum, it’s almost always from wanting to conform to conventional beauty standards. you are not immune to norms
besides, isn’t it beautiful that people look all kinds of ways? i wish we appreciated that more
