{"quotes":[{"text":"Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appearance","appearances","argument","arguments","bazooms","berate","blame","blast","boob","boobs","bosom","bosoms","breast","breast-implants","breasts","castigate","censure","chastise","condemn","condemnation","cosmetic","cosmetic-surgeries","cosmetic-surgery","criticism","criticize","debate","debates","denounce","denture","dentures","denunciation","deprecation","disapprobation","disapproval","disapprove","disfavor","dislike","displeasure","dissatisfaction","distaste","false-teeth","find-fault-with","funny","hair","hilarious","hooters","humor","humorous","humour","hypocrisy","hypocrite","hypocrites","implant","implants","joke","jokes","knockers","lay-into","looks","natural-hair","objection","quotations","quotes","rebuke","reprimand","reprove","revile","satire","slam","surgeries","surgery","take-to-task","thumbs-down","weave","weaves"],"id":50678,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We want to look desirable. We want others to want to mate with us. No different than a colorful peacock. When girls dress up for their night out at the club, they are doing what all animals do when they try to make themselves desirable for a potential mate. That's the whole point behind the fashion, perfume, cosmetics, diet, and plastic surgery industries.","author":"Oliver Markus","tags":["beauty","beauty-standards","clubbing","cosmetic-surgery","cosmetics","diet","diet-industry","dieting","dieting-humor","fashion","fashion-industry","fashion","girls","girls-night","mating","mating-ritual","men-and-women","perfume","perfume","plastic-surgery","women","women-and-men"],"id":109563,"author_id":"Oliver+Markus"},{"text":"Revirgination surgery for women is the fastest growing segment within the Indian cosmetic surgery industry. But any culture that decides a woman’s worth by the presence or absence of a membrane needs to examine its collective head.","author":"Mallika Nawal","tags":["cosmetic-surgery","hymen","madness","societal-constructs","society-s-increasing-stupidity","woman-s-secrets","womanhood","women-s-rights"],"id":149902,"author_id":"Mallika+Nawal"},{"text":"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.","author":"John Green","tags":["breast-implants","cosmetic-surgery","girls","hotness","nerdfighter","plastic-bags"],"id":280221,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"...So individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women's appearance are left unscathed.","author":"Kat Banyard","tags":["beauty","cosmetic-surgery","critical","empowering","feminist"],"id":309258,"author_id":"Kat+Banyard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}