Poll: Bullied teen recieves free plastic surgery

[Saucycarpdog]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/28/nadia-isle-bullied-georgi_n_1712548.html

I'm not sure what side to be on. You shouldn't let bullies change who you are but it looked like she really wanted the surgery. What do you guys think?

 

[Nickolai77]

Interesting question, but one thing i noticed about the video was that Nadia appeared a lot happier once you see her a couple of years after the operation. From a utilitarian perspective, she's happier her family are happier and therefore morally it has turned out to be the right thing.

I understand the issue of wherever it was right to cave into bully peer pressure, but sometimes you have to do a lesser evil to avoid a greater one- that being the suffering caused by all the bullying.

 

[Esotera]

I want to know who the hell is running that charity and how she qualifies as having a facial deformity. It seems like she would have got this done anyway, but a charity being there to do this gives all the wrong messages.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Well...yeah, widespread cosmetic surgery to avoid bullying is definitely worrying.

But to say "the school should stop it" or such like is totally avoiding the reality of the situation.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

"All the bullies were right. You're ugly. Here, let us fix you."

Forest for the trees, much?

 

[Casual Shinji]

As a kid or young adolescent you're still in the process of forming, because you're not done growing yet. Plastic surgery will only disrupt that. And she didn't look that bad, she was just a bit gawky; it comes with being a teenager.

And do people really think that now that she's a bit prettier, the bullying will stop? Trust me, it won't. She simply made herself an even bigger target now, thanks to this plastic surgery bussines.

And as Clearing the Eye said, an exellent message for other both the bullied and the bullies; You don't like the way someone looks, just bully them till they get free plastic surgery. They'll thank you later.

 

[Tiger King]

I actually didn't even notice her ears were sticking out, they looked fairly normal to me :/

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

I don't think she looked bad at all. Probably would have ended up quite pretty regardless.

If anything, this makes me feel bad with my "grandad wallace" ears that my mother affectionally calls them.
(Yeah I got those long ears. They don't stick out a lot, but they do look like a bunch of Quavers someone has stuck to the side of my head! XD)

Plus I'm just plain disappointed.
Being bullied myself it just feels as if the bullies won really.
(Oh, and I was an incredibly easy target for any bully. Being both fat and eccentric. Though most only had the capacity to say the same lame fat jokes I heard a billion times. No, the exclusion and being looked down upon were the worst parts for me, but I decided then that I will only change myself when I want to, (and I am working on improving myself now because I now feel like I want to for my own benefit, not for the benefit of society (just simple stuff like go for walks, eat some salad, go out and try to explore places a bit more, stuff that makes me happy )))

 

[Arakasi]

Yes.
With the parent's suport the kid can do whatever the fuck it wants, assuming it does not harm others.
Whether or not it is ridiculous is another matter.

 

[Toilet]

I want to know who the hell is running that charity and how she qualifies as having a facial deformity. It seems like she would have got this done anyway, but a charity being there to do this gives all the wrong messages.

Well it is not just for the vain and "prominent bat ears" (yes that is the actual medical term) is classified as a facial deformity. It doesn't just let the vain people who think they have ugly noses and big lips get surgery, I guess people who are really in need for this charity are kids with cleft lips, Hemifacial microsomia and stuff along those lines. Gives the kid a better quality of life.

Either way she is at least an 7/10 and I would bang.

 

[Starik20X6]

I had the same operation done on my ears when I was in Year 5. Not because of bullying, more my own self-consciousness. True story.

 

[chadachada123]

I have absolutely no problems with it for truly ugly kids. I would support a charity that helps out deformed or otherwise hideous children.

The girl in the article, though? She honestly looked fine before the surgery and looks nearly the same after the surgery. She went from a 4 to a 6, whoop-dee-doo. She's bang-able either way in my book.

I'm glad that she's now way happier, so I guess there isn't any direct harm, but I feel like there are thousands of objectively uglier children that could have used that surgery before she did.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

On one hand if it stopped the bullying and made her happier then it's justified but on the other hand FUCK THAT! Just cause someone isn't that great looking doesn't mean they should get free surgery when in America there are people who need but can't afford surgery, people who, you know, NEED surgery and I thought we were trying to teach people that it doesn't matter what you look like as long as you have a good personality... Fuck that's stupid, counter productive, morally incorrect, sends a bad message and... Stupid and... Er... Cunty (is that a word?)... Christ almighty, how are things like this supposed to help on a large scale surely it'll just raise the bar for the socially acceptable level of beauty which is already stupidly high and... and just no... No...

(She so would have grown into those ears...)

 

[Polyg0n]

I think it is horrible that people have to resort to stuff like this to stop bullying, but in some cases there might really be no other way as just saying to bullies that you shouldn't mock someone based on their appearance never works. I know these situations can escalate into very serious things and I can accept some plastic surgery if the victim really wants it her-/himself.

However they should not be even recommended and in no case pressured like the doctor seemed to in the video to take any "additional" surgeries. That is just not right.

 

[Alexnader]

I don't think it's something a charity should be supporting, not unless they actually have a medically recognised deformity. As for children getting it in general, I I don't think it's ideal but what they do is their and their parent's business.

 

[Gavmando]

Yep. An ex-girlfriend of mine had her ears pinned back when she was young. The bullying stopped for her.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I don't think what she had was really that extreme so I'm pretty much okay with it.

However it does kind of put across the message that the bullies were right to bully her and she did not look fine before. That's kind of the wrong message to send.

I do think bullying should be made a hate crime. It can cause anxiety disorder and other mental problems later in life. Not to mention child suicide.