You were the voice of reason during that discussion.

It seems that we're heading for an increasingly narrow definition of beauty while being told that "beauty" is the ONLY attribute that matters.

If only small noses are beautiful, where does that leave Italian girls, Jewish girls, Greek girls, Middle Eastern girls etc?

If only wrinkle-free faces are acceptable, where does that leave women who have the benefit of well lived wisdom, but neither the funds nor the inclination to submit to a knife?

So many are deemed unacceptable with this system.

When kids see multiple stories on plastic surgery and very few stories on character, what message are they getting? When their mothers buy into that message, what chance do they have of becoming deeper than the shallow surface created by surgery?

When we choose to go down the "beauty conquers all" road (finding no pot of gold at the end), we get further away from the "beauty's only skin deep" path (which allows us to focus on more substantial qualities).

The senseless and obsessive vanity of people in this country is totally out of control. As a society we place way too much emphasis on looks and other shallowness. When people like Kanye West's mother die needlessly in the name of vanity we have a real problem here. Get some self respect and learn to love the body you were born with.

"get some help" is absolutely right. It is so pathetic.