Skin deep
“Britons desperate to halt the ageing process are being injected with the stem cells of aborted foetuses at a clinic that charges £15,000 for a controversial new cosmetic treatment” according to this article. I must say I have always found the pursuit of youth and youthful beauty long after a person has the right to (or the need for) these attributes to be totally pathetic. But then, my heroines have always been people like Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
(Via Amy Welborn.)
October 17th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Feh. Just, feh.
I tend to agree on the Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler thing - some of the most interesing, most worthwhile (and, FWIW, most beautiful, even) women I know have been the ones who have NOT obsessed about “OMG, gotta cheat the reaper!”
I think it’s because when you’re not freaking out over the new microscopic wrinkle, you can devote those brain cells to something else.
It ticks me off because these youth freaks are trying to redefine aging, to not allow those of us who would age normally to do so. It’s kind of like how nearly all actresses have to be a size -2 or something (or else play ‘character’ roles like “The Fat Woman at Starbucks”) because a few woman-hating types have defined “beauty, Hollywood style” as something that can’t be attained without concentration-camp-like diets and rib removals.
I really hope there’s karma, and it comes back to bite the asses of those who are having dead babies injected into them just so they can look pretty. (I bet Hieronymus Bosch could have had an interesting time with portraying those folks in the Afterlife.)
October 17th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
It used to be so much easier–you waited until they were born and grew into shapely young virgins, then you just bathed in their blood.
Those people are morons.
October 17th, 2005 at 9:55 pm
Vampires do exist after all…