tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post8094123773738941452..comments2024-02-17T07:59:18.705-08:00Comments on Grad Student Madness: Suicide GirlsRufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-1210032039349626542007-08-09T14:33:00.000-07:002007-08-09T14:33:00.000-07:001. Point taken. Maybe it should read 'unnecessary ...1. Point taken. Maybe it should read 'unnecessary surgery', but not radical.<BR/><BR/>2. Agreed. I sort of saw the study about implants and suicide as being roughly as shocking as a study showing that drug addicts are more likely to also commit suicide. Correlation, not causation.<BR/><BR/>3. I'm not a great teaching example for care of the body, spending most of my time in dark libraries, and eating at least 80% penut butter & jam sandwiches.Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-30964545491692076112007-08-09T14:04:00.000-07:002007-08-09T14:04:00.000-07:001) Breast implants aren't radical plastic surgery....1) Breast implants aren't radical plastic surgery. <A HREF="http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,665328,00.html" REL="nofollow">Getting wings or a tail is radical plastic surgery</A>.<BR/><BR/>2) Low self esteem does not lead directly to suicide. There are intermediary steeps. Believing that there is something--anything--in your life that can be "made right" by larger breasts, you demonstrably have difficulty making assessments and judgments. So it's not so shocking that you might go down a trail of poor assessments and judgments that concludes with, "... so if I just eat ALL the oxycontin and drink ALL the Smirnoff, all will be right in the world."<BR/><BR/>3) While I agree with and admire your dedication to the acceptance of the self as an uninteresting fact, a thing which requires the awareness of, but not necessarily action... I believe in the corporeal self as a kind of domestic animal. It gets me around, and as is the case with most animals, health is something that can be assessed visually. <BR/><BR/>When my cat is ailing, I attend to that, but also I think about what will give her the longest, healthiest life she can have, when she's not sick. Increasingly, I find myself using this attitude as a yardstick for the care & feeding of my own body. It's pretty concise (for me, anyway).Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10593117152792976823noreply@blogger.com