Fashion mutilation
This is our world now: magazines for teenage girls encourage them to get their healthy breasts cut off.
The article is from last June, but apparently Teen Vogue just can’t get enough of urging teenage girls to cut their healthy breasts off.
There’s an old SF novel that J. G. Ballard praised called “Limbo” by Bernard Wolfe.
In Wolfe’s novel, a dystopian future society pressures its citizens into amputating their arms and legs, and then replacing the lost limbs with prosthetics.
Looking at Miss Hewson, I wonder are we living in a world similar to the one prophesied by “Limbo” ?
I remember a SF/fantasy story that I read many years ago–it must have been written in the 50s or 60s. It was somewhat difficult to follow the thread, but the premise was that there was a fox who had cut off his tail (for unclear reasons), and was now trying to convince all the other foxes that cutting off their tails was the new/in/hip/cool thing to do.
The story was just a bit too disturbing for me to easily dismiss as stupid. I guess that’s the mark of a good writer.
I think that story might have been a retelling of Aesop’s Fables:
https://read.gov/aesop/117.html#:~:text=A%20Fox%20that%20had%20been,and%20laugh%20behind%20his%20back.
I remember reading the children’s book “Here Tomorrow, Gone Today” by Mrs. Tim Kennemore as a teenager.
One of the stories was about a violent heavy-metal singer who was loved by rebellious teenagers and hated by everyone else. The singer was a old woman, and the singer’s female teenage fans began dressing like the old rocker – the book mentioned that some of the singer’s most enthusiastic adolescent fans got irreversible cosmetic surgery that made them look elderly.