For decades, breast augmentations have been one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries in the United States. But in recent years, a new trend has emerged: the breast reduction.
Lisa Miller, who covers personal and cultural approaches to health for The Times, discusses why the procedure has become so common.
Guest: Lisa Miller (https://www.nytimes.com/by/lisa-miller) , a domestic correspondent for the Well section of The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Are women asserting their independence or capitulating (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/well/breast-reduction-trend.html) to yet another impossible standard of beauty?
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The “male gaze industrial complex”??? Good grief
Women should stop with the obsessive body consciousness and accept themselves as they are naturally. Men are attracted to nice, pleasant natural faces and smiles far more than breast size, large or small. The obsession is not man-driven but media-driven entirely.
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People realizing Evola was right.
12:01 Well it is also very frustrating for men who lost their hair that want to get a hair transplant and have to pay out of their own pockets!