The fact that a person can have cosmetic surgery to improve these things does nothing to solve the moral conundrum of whether she should, especially as the social consensus is so often that she shouldn’t—that there’s something gauche about buying beauty, or buying it back when it begins to fade. Even as our society fetishizes youth, or the appearance of youthfulness, to acknowledge this too openly—to let it show on your face in the form of having had obvious work done—is still, somehow, a bridge too far. Women, we are told, should age gracefully. And yet the notion of aging gracefully requires
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