by B. R. GOWANI
US businesswoman and celebrity Kim Kardashian PHOTO/Daily Mail
Nature endowed us all with many body parts
and with various desires filled our hearts
but many human bodies covet what they lack
and so some of those suffer medical thwack
plastic surgery has been around in some form
but has now hit the people like a big storm
it’s a billion dollar industry, still going strong
which attack people with a beautiful prong
The plastic surgeons, cosmetologists, fashion designers, and people associated with the beauty industry have grown big and powerful. They have penetrated the minds of a large section of society and have created in that section a desire to look in a certain way, and so the body shapes, sizes, and their color (it’s white, of course) are decided by them and then imposed on people.
Kim Kardashian, a TV personality, businesswoman, celebrity, and much more, is as usual in the news again. This time on a far bigger scale than the previous one. A magazine called Paper has published some of her pictures, covered and uncovered. She has been capitalizing on her body, particularly her derriere, for a long time. In the above pictures, the size of Kardashian’s rear may create an impression that it is an extraterritorial matter. But please rest assured that her rear world is within the boundary of her geographical makeup and is well within her jurisdiction.
The debate about Kardashian’s assets, especially her bottom, focuses on whether it’s real or has been enhanced. The reason this time around it’s is in the news is because of the above photos. The question from this author is not if her backside is real or not, but whether her booty has any aesthetic value which deserves an attention of such great degree.
Before proceeding any further, it would be gentlemanly or ladylike to acknowledge that it is good etiquette to refrain from commenting on someone else’s anatomy. But Kardashian’s life and her physical wealth are so public and open, through news media and herself, that it would not be wrong to express a frank opinion.
There is nothing wrong in having plastic surgery done if a body is deformed or any of the body parts are too little or too big. But then if the reduction or enhancement is done in proportion to the body size, the result will no doubt beautify, or at least, de-uglify, the person. On the other hand, too large or too little change could result in insurmountable shame.
Some benefits of big butt cannot be ruled out, such as its function as a table, which one can observe from one of the above pictures, where a glass of champagne is sitting on Kim’s rear. But as far as aesthetic value is concerned, one is hard pressed to find it in Kardashian’s rear world. That world seems very unnatural. (This is also true about men and women with extra big muscles which are not eye pleasing.) However, one can always counter argue with a point that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. No doubt, there is a section of people who prefers XL size. However, the great increase in the number of people going crazy after her bum is due to the news media outlets’ hunger for titillating stories and Kardashian’s own desire to stay in the news all the time in this extremely competitive world. Due to this, Kardashian’s rear world is able to conquer the internet but not the aesthetic world.
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com