This song makes me cry when I hear it. People are willing to throw away their most personal aspects, like the way they look, to chase after some elusive ideal of beauty, disregarding that beauty which they already possess.
Some will do this to the point of death... but even those who don't get facelifts still often think themselves ugly and let their terrible self-images dominate their lives and ruin them.
It's tragic, and it doesn't need to be this way. Beauty is a social construct; let's construct a new, inclusive one that will render this song an anachronism.
This song makes me cry when I hear it. People are willing to throw away their most personal aspects, like the way they look, to chase after some elusive ideal of beauty, disregarding that beauty which they already possess.
Some will do this to the point of death... but even those who don't get facelifts still often think themselves ugly and let their terrible self-images dominate their lives and ruin them.
It's tragic, and it doesn't need to be this way. Beauty is a social construct; let's construct a new, inclusive one that will render this song an anachronism.