the social implications? Who would change their mind due to the fact that their
surgery may be viewed as conforming to society?
Little believes one should be labeled a "sell-out" or "complicitous when one
endorses, promotes, or unduly benefits from norms and practices that are morally
suspect" (Little, 169, 170). She applies this belief to cosmetic surgeons who "help turn
society white or women into Barbie Dolls" (Little, 171, 172). She characterizes those
seeking these surgeries as victims of a morally unjust society, falling prey to
profit-blinded surgeons looking to exploit their faults (in the eyes of suspect norms).
Perhaps what the author neglected to take into consideration is the fact that these
people come looking for the surgeon. A cosmetic surgeon no more seduces a patient
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