You know what I don\u2019t hear about much anymore? Cosmetic \u201cplastic\u201d surgery. That used to be a bigger thing in the culture, in the 90s you heard about face lifts, neck lifts, breast lifts, breast implants (silicone AND saline), \u201ctummy tucks\u201d, liposuction all the time.
Is it because people don\u2019t do that so much anymore, the fad wore off, it was an artifact of a high-disposable-income boom time, it was really about the boomers confronting themselves as mortal and decaying things for the first time?
Is it because we\u2019re more body-positive about being lumpy fucks, or that we invest our appearance neuroses into going to the gym instead? (As if the jogging and aerobics fads, NordicTrack, ThighMaster hadn\u2019t been a thing before?)
Is it just no longer novel, something we need to work into our culture, now dog bites man? (I remember later mini-booms of attention around Botox, butt implants, collagen injections that then faded)
Is it that it fit into a authentic/phony binary that used to be a lot more central to understandings of culture \u2013 notions of \u201cselling out\u201d and \u201ckeeping it real\u201d, white picket fence suburbanism and antidepressants equally disdained as false happiness?
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