"What is the difference between Orlan and Cindy?" asked professor Monaghan.
Orlan's actions with plastic surgery is to use her own body as a medium to express her views on beauty of women. What is beautiful? What do other people think is beautiful? Age old questions indeed, and through her performance art using her own body to go through the pains of plastic surgery, Orlan explores these questions in ways shocking to us all.
On the other hand, Cindy has used plastic surgery to become this living creature of modification. She openly states of her admiration of the Barbie doll. I am disturbed by her because all she's done is mold her body to not what she views as beautiful, but what someone else told her what is beautiful.
What's scariest about all of this? It isn't even society that dictates what is beautiful. It is manufacturers of barbie dolls and directors of advertising.
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