Ich habe heute in Eriwan eine Werbetafel entdeckt, die die Menschen dazu auffordert, „das zu machen.“ [social media] eine Realität filtern.‘ Ich war entmutigt und enttäuscht darüber, wie tief sich die Schönheitskultur und die Branche der plastischen Chirurgie hier – und vielleicht überall – etabliert haben. Es ist alarmierend zu sehen, wie diese Botschaft im öffentlichen Raum so beiläufig präsentiert wird, als ob es nur eine alltägliche Aufgabe wäre, sein Aussehen zu ändern, um einem willkürlichen Standard zu entsprechen.
Meiner Meinung nach ist dieser Trend nicht nur herzzerreißend, sondern auch schädlich. Während es natürlich jedem freisteht, seine eigenen Entscheidungen über seinen Körper zu treffen, kann der allgegenwärtige Druck, auf eine bestimmte Art und Weise auszusehen (insbesondere in einer Gesellschaft, in der eurozentrische oder übermäßig ausgefeilte Schönheitsstandards vorherrschen), schädliche Auswirkungen auf das Selbstwertgefühl und die psychische Gesundheit haben . Es geht nicht nur um individuelle Entscheidungen; Es geht um die größeren kulturellen Muster, die Menschen, insbesondere Frauen, zu diesen Entscheidungen drängen.
Was die Sache noch entmutigender macht, ist, wie normalisiert dieser Druck in Armenien geworden ist. Sie können nicht durch Eriwan laufen, ohne überall in der Stadt Werbung für Botox, Filler und Schönheitsoperationen zu sehen. Diese Nachrichten dringen in Gespräche mit Freunden und Familie ein, und bevor Sie es merken, scheinen sie eher die Norm als die Ausnahme zu sein. Die Auswirkungen darauf, wie wir als Armenier uns selbst sehen – unsere ethnischen Merkmale, unsere natürliche Schönheit – sind tiefgreifend.
Vor einigen Monaten veröffentlichte Torontohye einen faszinierenden Artikel von Sophia Alexanian, der dieses Thema hervorragend beleuchtet. Darin reflektiert sie ihre eigenen Erfahrungen beim Navigieren in der Schönheitskultur als armenische Frau und verbindet diese mit breiteren gesellschaftlichen Dynamiken, einschließlich verinnerlichtem Rassismus und den anhaltenden Auswirkungen des Kolonialismus auf Schönheitsstandards. Es ist ein Muss für jeden, der die Wurzeln dieses Phänomens und den tatsächlichen Schaden, den es verursacht, verstehen möchte. Du kannst es dir hier ansehen: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/184P5yd3pb/
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Von janbazianrupen
22 Kommentare
Shameful
I’ve never seen any girl with artificial lips that looks nice. They are all ugly and look the same.
People who get this stuff done think they look like supermodels but in reality they look like Sloth from the Goonies.
Poqr Kentron has become a place where you nowadays see a copy/paste of Armenian girls basically having the same nose, lips, and features.
Sometimes I joke with my friends that there must a clone factory somewhere on the outskirts because of how generic a big portion of our women have become. This is very sad and should become regulated by govt but won’t.
To any of the girls reading this and thinking of doing it for whatever reason (insecurity complexes, bullying, to attract more guys, etc. )
Believe me, we do not like it (and i’m talking about all the guys in my social circle, not just me).
Yuck.
I hope he gets arrested.
I don’t even use filters when taking pictures, cause I don’t like any changes in my photo let alone make it reality, yuck …
The doctor having a very asymmetric face (totally normal) while telling other people to change their faces is just hilarious.
me when i discover people are shallow and inept
This is honestly sad because I’ve seen girls that have gotten plastic surgery even though they already looked beautiful before naturally. It’s just become a trend not only in Armenia but this entire part of Asia we’re located in.
I think you went on some completely unfounded tangent. Why even bring Eurocentrism into this? Most European women do not take particularly intricate care of themselves (not judging) and would be considered disheveled by Armenian standards. We don’t need anybody else to follow to create our own unrealistic beauty standards, we do it just fine ourselves thank you very much. And this with people like Kim Kardashian, an Armenian woman, pretty much being the face for a lot of modern trends for women everywhere.
And internalised racism and colonialism? Please keep your contemporary college level discourse to Canada, it has absolutely no bearing in Armenia. People just want to look nice and Armenian women absolutely look like beautiful Armenian women and aren’t trying to pass off as something else. These pressures maybe exist for diaspora in foreign countries but in Armenia nobody gives a damn.
You can blame the Kardashians, a stain on the Armenian diaspora and culture.
Here? Name me one place in the world, connected to the outside world, where this doesn’t exist
How more disheartened would you be if you found out that this particular surgeon „allegedly“ has had a couple of fatal endings to his beautification procedures…
According to my friend, girls who don’t get a nose job get bullied by other girls. According to her it’s viewed as a „status symbol“ and the girls who don’t get a surgery are viewed as poor.
Everyone is free to do anything they want with their body and appearance. Sometimes it’s pretty, sometimes not— it’s all subjective. But! This right here is an agenda and not a good one. Playing on people’s (especially women) insecurities to gain money is evil. Also making all young girls thinking “Armenian” noses are ugly and they need to change. Every third girl I know (I’m from Yerevan) has either done a nose job or wants to.
This is not local, this agenda is worldwide and right now Armenian “beauty” surgeons are just making money off of it. Sometimes I even hear news about fatal outcomes because of doctor incompetence. Very sad.
People from the Caucasus region are born good looking, why would they need all these types of surgery?
Become?
From a health perspective,
I would never go under a knife to impress or satisfy someone, nor a needle fill up, nor do I want anyone to do it for me. Unless it’s for medical purposes, or it doesn’t involve carving or artificial products to go into your body. I am very health first, no foreign compounds in your body oriented person.
I am not judging, but rather come from, equality and both mental health and body health perspective. If your relationship is based on objectification, it does not sound healthy.
None invasive methods can be argued, or medical reasons to be acceptable. Say, hair implants, breathing problems, even implants for erectile dysfunction can be argued as it’s a functioning issue, not appeasing issue. But other things like beautifying body parts, is questionable. In regards to a married couple, if your husband wants you to do a nose job (or vice versa), or get breast implants today, or say you are motivated to make your husband happy, is he going to ask you to do vagina rejuvenation operations as well? so it looks better?, say after 30 years of marriage? As we age, most of our body parts is going to get soggy whether we like it or not.
I’ve seen women wanting to marry men who are 20 years older than them with the argument that „they stay beautiful in the eyes of their husbands when they grow old“, else „The man will cheat because they no longer look beautiful to their husbands“. Not exactly solving the root problem of men here. And I don’t say this to everyone out there, obviously if there’s romance, sure, but if you’re specifically wanting to marry older people for this reason, your marriage is based on objectification.
There’s so many social taboos that force women into unpleasant experiences, and recently for men as well, and these advertisements prey and capitalize on people who have mental health issues such as insecurities, acceptance problems etc.
The same issue exist in dentistry, people carve out their teeth for a Hollywood smile.
Of course, I understand that are specific cases and conditions that can be argued otherwise, I am generalizing.
I consider the LGBTQ community a separate topic to this.
It’s so sad to see people promoting the erasure of our identity, honestly. It seems that NOT getting plastic surgery is an act of rebellion at this point
Ok but Ֆիլտրը is an amazing word 😂😂😂
I never understood how one could voluntarily lie down on the operating table when there was no need for it for health reasons.
How do they even afford all these surgeries? I’ve seen so many baristas with insanely bad lip filler and was wondering how they managed to payroll all of their surgeries