Botox: for Profit, Insecurities, and the Devil

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April 3, 2006

This stupid ad is all over Vancouver bus stops.
It really pisses me off.
It's so fucking manipulative.
It's so... twisted.
I mean, isn't it obvious that injectiing shit into your face is NOT going to help you rediscover wonder in life?
Isn't it obvious that the woman pictured in the ad is NOT a Botox user?
Isn't it obvious that Me, Myself, and I has nothing to do with you, and is actually about what everybody else thinks of you?
Isn't it obvious that nobody should even give a rat's ass?

I wonder if the woman pictured in the ad is racking up major bad karma. I hope she got some major coin to stoop so low as to let her frighteningly sincere Happy To Be Alive face be plastered all over the place, encouraging people to dwell on their imperfections and the injustices that Time wreaks on our bodies: our sickeningly obstinate bodies who steadfastly refuse to stay 17 years old!

For your information, Botox is a toxin which is related to botulism, a form of food poisoning. It actually paralyzes your muscles so they can't move, and therefore can't wrinkle. Yum!

Well if it's any consolation, I'm pretty sure that Botox doesn't come cheap, and even the Botox website's Before and After Gallery show results which I can barely recognize, thinking that half of the Before pix look better than the After ones.

If all BR readerswere to vandalize these ads with witty and clever messages, it would make me very very happy.

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I think you can also get mad cow disease from it. gross.

Posted by: degan at April 3, 2006 7:09 PM | Quote Comment

I much prefer the You Are Beautiful campaign.

Posted by: sarah at April 3, 2006 10:52 PM | Quote Comment

I doubt the woman even knew here photo was in the ad until after it came out, a lot of this stuff is just stock photography.... And she probably got paid very little. Wishing her bad "karma" is just stupid.

Posted by: art at April 3, 2006 11:03 PM | Quote Comment

Hell, Art could be right. Geez, you gotta be careful about throwing yr image out into the public domain where who knows what bastard is gonna exploit ya.

Let's just throw the bad karma on the friendly person who chose the image, even if they're only trying to feed their 3 kids.

Posted by: statq at April 3, 2006 11:30 PM | Quote Comment

twisted. this stuff should be illegal.

Posted by: vanessa at April 4, 2006 12:42 PM | Quote Comment

The Botox or the advertising should be illegal? I think both are fine, though dumb... Just that it's not the government's job to tell you you can't poison yourself if you really want to.

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