I think buccal fat removal in a young person is a great way to create a returning customer. It’s like adding planned obsolescence into a face. Without the support of this fat, your face and jowls will sag and your face will (according to your plastic surgeon and your insta friends and your shitty woman hating boyfriend) NEED more surgeries.

Making an adjustment to someone’s face (for money) that will all but guarantee this person’s cascading self-esteem and “need” for more plastic surgeries (for money) is just doctors being hip to capitalism.

Elective plastic surgery will always be a tool of capitalism, because the most resellable commodity is always your dream self. They create more false standards of femininity, they charge you to meet them, then they change them, then they charge you to meet them again.

But don’t worry! Capitalism also teaches Market Segmentation. You know, how they figured out that aggressively gendering toys and selling separate fantasies to male and female children resulted in greater revenue?

Huh, I wonder how you create market segmentation when it comes to profiting off of bodies? Oh of course, you create new identities with new surgeries and new clothes and new makeup looks and new hair products and pins, and suddenly you have a whole new market.

You know ow what private medical practice is like, right? You have to drum up patients somehow! You can see them on TikTok, telling us which celebrities would look “better” with which products, telling us which random person in a video would look “better” with thousands of dollars worth of medical treatment.

And people die!! Under the knife or from infections, these are REAL surgeries. Can you imagine wiping out the rest of your life because some man said you had chubby cheeks? Because somebody told you your breasts were wrong? Because your thighs committed the sin of touching? You really want to meet your ancestors because the vibes were off on your boobs???

None of us are immune to propaganda. But we can try our hardest not to constantly consume it!! Find women you know and look for their histories in their faces. Romanticize everything that makes you unique. REJECT THE NOTION THAT FACES AND BODIES CAN GO OUT OF FASHION. That is just some male garbage made up to steal our fucking money, time, and energy.

Plastic surgery is about fear of life and of ourselves.

Oh this diva

Women and girl don’t need plastic surgery. They need knives, guns and weapons of mass destruction.

plastic surgeons hate her buccal fat

peter

I love not having any social medias and getting the latest news of internet culture via Tumblr shit posts and 5 hour YouTube video essays

the thing about the buccal fat removal surgery is that it gives cis women features that are more sharper, more structured (masculine)....which was shunned and mocked when trans women had them. the whole concept of facial feminization surgery was to have a more softer more round (feminine) face, so that trans women would feel more "secure"...my point is. women can't win in this patriarchal world. trans women have to become more feminine to be taken "seriously" and cis women have to become more masculine (in every sense, be it in a work place, now even when it comes to face) to be a person of high repute in the industry...(bella hadid, women that dress more like men, act more like men are able to like at least splinter the glass ceiling...) idk. it's all just so depressing.

marble nymphs and medieval ladies with their gallant knights and Boticelli’s virgin staring at you gentle and half-moon eyed and Goja’s Maja with her rosy cheeks and Liberty guiding the people, hope and anger and action all in one symbol, and women of each of Renoir’s impressionist paintings playful and alive, and Suzanne and Judith and Esther and Bathsheba and all of the women of artemisia gentileschi. imagine having all those pieces of art depicting  your face. The plumpness of the cheek painted with such painstakingly precision that now your face represents history. imagine carrying centuries of art in the roundness of the face and just decide to throw it all away just because the last fad says every single piece of softness has to be obliterated. fuck buccal fat removal.

🫠 @reniadeb 🫠

Screaming into the void for a second, bear with me.

There's this thing on TikTok called "buccal fat removal": it's this new plastic surgery trend where you remove the fat in your cheek and get a more "chiseled" appearance. And of course I don't approve of that! There's nothing wrong with round faces, and i love it on others.

But.

I'm a trans guy, pre-everything. (I'm on a waiting list. Hopefully I'll get my intake before i take rusty scissors to my chest anyway!) One of my biggest places of dysphoria is my round face. It's gotten better since I've been out of puberty, but it's still "doll-like". And none of the counterarguments against the procedure appeal to me.

"You'll age quicker!"

I was mistaken for a 12 year old in my first year of uni. I would love to age quicker. Also, there's nothing wrong with looking old. I welcome every wrinkle because i think showing your life on your face is awesome. Can't wait until I'm gray.

And ofc.you have the other arguments...

"Girls, don't remove the fat in your cheek!! It's so cute, and feminine, and when you smile you're adorable! It's a #cherub face!"

This just makes me want to do it more. I loathe the thought that, no matter how i present or act, my face will be "adorable".

So if anyone knows how about positive affirmations/encouragement/tips for guys with round faces, please direct it my way. Because saying my cheeks make me look cute and youthful just makes my skin crawl.

me: i don't like my round face and kinda hate my chubby cheeks, but i guess that's how is it

The Buccal Fat Removal Demons in my bedroom:

back on my bs

good morning to people with naturally weak jawlines and chins and ESPECIALLY people who’s necks connect “too closely” to the end of their chin. we are so so so sexy no matter what media wants us to believe <3

michael

i have cute chubby cheeks and i love it

i am cherubic

i am a doll

i am sweetness

i am angelic