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women should choose what they want to do with their breasts. But how they can choose if the society is pressuring them to go under knife. What goes on in Venezuela is unhealthy in the same way that size 0 obsesion is in the US.

It *should* be up to women what they do with their bodies, but in circumstances like this when it has become a mass trend it goes beyond individuals woman's choices. In a case such as this (and for that matter many other, although certainly not all plastic surgery procedures), women are being coerced into this body augmentation in order to fit a manufactured and unrealistic image that is presented to them by the media and by the surgeons solely for profit.

This is part of a cycle, feeding on and feeding into female insecurity and the ideals of female sexuality--being females as objects for the purpose of male lust, which is the cause of situations like the one in the other article I posted in this forum "no jail for rapist because victim 'wanted to party'".

Also on the forefront of this issue is consumerism, women are not only being seen as sexual objects but also as consumers. One could try to argue that the fact alone that women are able to go out, and spend their money, and change their bodies is uplifting. In my opinion what this really shows is the oppressiveness of a consumerist culture, and its reduction of the value of the person into monetary value. The advertiser or the surgeon is not primarily concerned with empowering these women with choice, they are interested in capital.

The women Chavez focused on addressing were impoverished women who were putting breast enlargement, an extremely novel purchase above life necessities (I don't mean to say that women of any class should have more or less right to own their bodies and do with them whatever they so choose), it goes to show how how deeply engrained these ideals are in society that women feel the need to change there body at such high costs, literally and figuratively.

Well, actually I think Chavez is right about this.

It'ds up to the women what they want to do with their breasts, not him, he hasn't got any :)