Red and Rover by Brian Basset for March 21, 2001
Transcript:
Rover: Something's different about you... I can't quite put my paw on it. Red: They're wax lips, silly! Here I got you a pair too! Rover: How do I look? Red: Totally irresistible! If people didn't like "doggy kisses" before, they're gonna love getting them now!
Angry rant follows. Don’t read on if you want to stay happy.
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It shows how ridiculous the ‘lip augmentation’ industry has become that those silly plastic lips from 25 years ago are more narrow than altered people have actually got on their faces.
When we look back at some fashions or trends from the past, we wonder how people could have been so stupid as to think it was a good idea. Injecting stuff into your lips to look like a split cushion, more ridiculous than a joke toy, is one of those actions that will make people think our era was just as weird.
And to anyone offended by what I have written, be more offended by how media manipulation gets people to waste their money on pointless surgical procedures. Also, how people will cheerfully do these pointless and dangerous services for money. And just so you know, people really are laughing at you behind your back.
(Why the venom? I just read yet another news story about someone dying from an unnecessary cosmetic surgery procedure. I am appalled that society is structured so women feel they must subject themselves to bodily mutilation because of airbrushed pictures in glossy magazines. It is abuse-for-profit on a massive, industrial, scale.)