Generation Bubble

Vagina Splendata: Beauty-Obsessed Women Exercise the "Pubic Option"

Bejeweled vaginas do not cyborgs make, of course; and I don’t believe they will pave the way to yet another weapon of mass destruction, but they do indicate a society that is growing increasingly discontented with the merely human, adorning itself with implants intended to make our cheekbones larger or our noses smaller, our genitals look less like genitals and our faces look less like ourselves. All that is fine so long as we don’t start to fetishize the uncanny result of such operations, where we forget the imperfectly human in favor of the perfectly artificial. Because then those that can only afford to be human, and given the recession, it looks like more than a few will fall into that category, will be seen as second-class citizens, as people not quite alive, or worthy of life, because they can’t afford the latest supplemental technology to their bodies.