I mean, pretty much every culture in the world has equated and continues to equate beauty as being a marker of some greater "quality" in a person. Books (think of all the fairy tales where the pretty heroine is pitted against an ugly villain), movies, music. That's why even now, in 2012, celebrities continue to lie about having work done. It's why the fact that so-and-so had a nose job or breast implants is deemed worthy of a headline in some trashy gossip magazine. The idea that one can buy an attractive mask has such a stigma because of centuries worth of conditioning. It's "Snow White was fairest in all the land," not "Snow White got herself some collagen injections and a nose job and she was hotter than all the other broads in the kingdom." So I don't think it's bizarre that cosmetic surgery is going to get a reaction.
Re: Plastic surgery.
I mean, pretty much every culture in the world has equated and continues to equate beauty as being a marker of some greater "quality" in a person. Books (think of all the fairy tales where the pretty heroine is pitted against an ugly villain), movies, music. That's why even now, in 2012, celebrities continue to lie about having work done. It's why the fact that so-and-so had a nose job or breast implants is deemed worthy of a headline in some trashy gossip magazine. The idea that one can buy an attractive mask has such a stigma because of centuries worth of conditioning. It's "Snow White was fairest in all the land," not "Snow White got herself some collagen injections and a nose job and she was hotter than all the other broads in the kingdom." So I don't think it's bizarre that cosmetic surgery is going to get a reaction.