What do you guys think of the person who wants to become a genderless alien? [Possibly NSFW]?

She has no idea what we actually look like, does she?

Okay, the look is gnarley, but if it can afford the proceedures, and none of them are harmful to its health, whatEVER.
It will never win a sexual discrimination case.

@Patty_Melt I feel that some of these surgeries are going to affect their health in the future. I don’t know why, but I have a feeling 100+ surgeries are going to screw them over when they are 70.
Your use of “It” raises another question.
What would the pronouns be for a genderless alien? “It” does seem sensical, but probably would trigger the person.

(Wiping tears from my cheeks)
Who asked that Q the other day about aliens meeting our leader?
I would HAVE to be a fly on the wall if President Trump were to meet that.

I didn’t notice anything in the list of procedures that spell out a health risk.
I wouldn’t want to go through that, but then, I spent most of my life with an onion ass, and bodacious tah-tahs, so such a thing would never have occured to me.

I think it is, most likely, a highly foolish whim of adolescence and it will live to regret it. That’s my prediction. OTOH whatever….if being a freak turns you on, go for it. Who am I to determine someone elses acceptable levels of freakdom. haha

@ragingloli, you never disappoint. You are personally responsible for at least 10% of my total laughter.

@Patty_Melt
You must have a very sad life if that is true.

Indeed, loli, but you manage to deliver delicious humor, however wry it may sometimes be.

Interesting and disturbing.

Cosmetic and (even moreso) sex change surgery bring up some complex issues about personal choice, privacy, respect, and personal issues. It’s really hard to relate to some of these choices, and so it’s natural to worry that the person wanting them may be making a one-way decision they won’t be able to undo if perhaps they change their outlook later. On the other hand, the people making these choices also may very well know what’s best for them, and where should various people draw the lines on who should do what?

My own views include:
* I wouldn’t have a tattoo or piercing done to myself of my child.
* I think people should be allowed to do what they truly want with their own bodies, if they fully understand it, are of age, and in all ways competent to make that decision.
* I think it may be hard to tell whether the above conditions are really true.
* I think cosmetic surgeons should be free to set policies about what they’re willing to do or not.
* I think it would be horrible for someone to regret having made a one-way choice to alter their body.

And also, part of me is glad someone is doing something interesting and disturbing with plastic surgery other than trying to make themselves more like impossible conventional beauty ideals. As such, from a certain perspective, I find it less disturbing that much of the excessive/needless cosmetic surgery done in socially semi-accepted ways. Somehow I feel more sympathetic with someone wanting to make themselves into an alien than I am with someone wanting to rearrange their already-beautiful face to fit some notion that they’d be more beautiful with it rearranged, but I suppose I just have a harder time relating to that notion, and am actually more inclined to think (perhaps just because I have a harder time relating) that the conventional beautiful face-rearrangers are mistaken. As a anti-conformist, I can relate more to wanting to be non-human, than I can to wanting to more closely fit a conventional spec for maximum beauty that I don’t agree with. Similarly, I’m more sympathetic to the people wanting to be aliens than to the people wanting to be anime-girls.

Well, then there’s the woman who spent a half a million to look like Barbie.

As with any permanent, radical procedure, I think they’ll regret it, eventually. I can’t imagine what could go through a person’s mind to do something like that.

What is it with these lorry-tyre lips, anyway?

Masochist.

I’m assuming that she wants to look like a fetus. I am hoping that this is fake news. She got her 15 minutes of fame. So I guess it worked.

I’m filing this firmly under “not my problem”

In situations like this, I think there should be a mandatory psch consult to ensure the person is mentally competent to understand their decisions and the long-term repercussions of their choices. Assuming that’s true then I think the principle of informed consent is the best rule to follow—the patient can make thier own decisions based on complete information about the risks of the procedure. If there are significant medical risks to these procedures (and I’m inclined to guess there are—but I’m no MD), I do have concerns about the ethics of such radical procedures. How does the risk to benefit ratio get evaluated?

I have never appreciated my life more than now.

I agree with @gorillapaws . But that’s a slippery slope. In my country (US) lasix eye surgery is considered elective, or aesthetic surgery. Therefore, it isn’t covered/co-payed by most insurance. It is a procedure that would save me lots of money,and improve my quality of life.

I know it’s different… But I have to make at least one false analogy a day,or I don’t feel right.~

I had lasik surgery. It was not covered by insurance. It was a dream come true though.

A German nerd of the highest order?