1. My chosen artifact is…
Plastic surgeries for women after giving birth.
Classify your artifact.
-Women use plastic surgery to fix certain parts of their bodies
-women spend too much money getting surgical procedures such as: tummy tucks breast lifts or breast implants and Liposuction
-plastic surgery can be the answer to helping many women feel better about their self esteem
-mothers want to look like models and celebrities and will do just about anything to do it
-mothers disregard their new born because they are focused in their appearance
-women do not want to have any more children after plastic surgery because of all the money they spent.
-usually people can tell when someone had a procedure, people do not give the same amount of respect if they know a person is not natural
-plastic surgery can go wrong and cause someone life
-women disregard the health issues associated with plastic surgery
2. How do you classify your artifact? In what groups can you place your artifact? What connections can you make to other artifacts in the group?
My artifact can become an obsession to many new mothers who are constantly on face book and Instagram trying to achieve someone else’s look after they had a baby.
I can compare my artifact to celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian who got their shape back after weeks of having their children. Due to social media many working moms develop many insecurities and self hate. The constant reminder that women should be skinny in order to be considered beautiful is hurting many mothers who would go for plastic surgery procedures and lose their lives leaving behind their children.
3. Identify points of similarity between your artifact and others. Then identify points of difference with other artifacts. How is it similar? How is it different?
MY RESPONSE… eating a proper diet and regular exercise should be the way for anyone to choose to get in shape. It would be ideal if a women could just eat organic foods and gain her shape back after giving birth. The reality is that for many women it is very difficult to focus on eating a proper meal and some times they do not have the time to spend at the gym. When a woman gets a mommy make over if the surgery goes well they can see better results in weeks. Their stomach can be much flatter and their breast will be back in place. Now my idea to encourage women to start working out and getting back in shape would be to make plastic surgery illegal. If women don’t have access to plastic surgery they will be forced to regain their body through the natural way.
4. What metaphors or analogies suit your artifact? (Explain if needed)
MY RESPONSE…when I think of plastic surgery i think of someone who is hiding their true self.
Examine cultural narratives. The impact of plastic surgery in society has made women of different age and backgrounds vein and lazy. Women opt to go the easier route instead of working out and dedicating time to their bodies and their children. Most women who get plastic surgery after having a child are trying to find comfort in their selves since they feel that having a child has made them ugly and unattractive. Assumptions such as a woman who gets plastic surgery has money or thinking that having a big butt, a flat stomach and big breasts is really true beauty has driven many working class mothers to get plastic surgical procedures and they now look like Niky Minaj fake and uglier than what they thought they were before the surgery.
5. How is your artifact characterized? (How do people/media/groups characterize it?)
MY RESPONSE…Social media and the public view Plastic surgery as a way to make women beautiful.
6. What cultural narratives govern your artifact?
MY RESPONSE…Face book and Instagram govern plastic surgery. The constant remainder that plastic surgery is available and other women posing their new looks has impacted society in the way the expect women to look in real life.
7. What assumptions, stereotypes, habits, social practices, and institutions frame your artifact?
MY RESPONSE…some stereotypes about plastic surgery are: women should not be fat and ugly when plastic surgery is available.
8. What doctrines or practices affect your artifact? (Or, what doctrines or practices you’re your artifact affect?) Political parties and platforms? Religious? Ideological? Which ones? Are there cultural “rules” and practices? Which?
MY RESPONSE…Plastic surgery affects the religious believes in some people who think that plastic surgery is taking away a woman’s true beauty.
9. How does your artifact affect culture? How does culture affect your artifact?
MY RESPONSE…Plastic surgery affects culture in the sense that everyone wants to get plastic surgery even when they do not need it. Also women who had a child are putting their lives at risk if they die during a surgical procedure. Culture affects plastic surgery in that social media encourages for new mothers to get plastic surgeries.