I was really annoyed by this BBC commentary on Iraqi women getting cosmetic surgery. they talked to the surgeon who described this as an empowering thing for these women to change their appearance, then this Western commentator tosses out some decontextualized nonsense about late stage capitalism. like, maybe acknowledge that these women have some agency? that the guy who's talking to these women on a daily basis could have some insight? I get it that you want women to feel powerful however they look and maybe society injects this preference for youth, but also implying it's bad and wrong for these women to want to control their images and decide on what *they* want to see in the mirror is pretty shitty as well