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About Me
- Ted Gournelos
- I'm an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Rollins College. I teach a variety of courses, with topics from public relations to popular culture to digital media. My first book, Popular Culture and the Future of American Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park, was published in 2009 from Lexington Books, and I published two edited volumes in 2011: one on humor and irony in post-9/11 politics, and one on transgression in the digital age. My Ph.D. and M.F.A. come from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I also have an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Illinois, and two bachelor's degrees (Art and English) from the University of Maryland.
I completely agree with the technology of this day and age changing our ideas on what beauty actually is. It's ridiculous how many celebrities in the previous video have had plastic surgery and, also, how before any picture is released of a celebrity or model it is practically always retouched (99.9% of the time). People look to Hollywood and its stars to know what's in style. For this generation, a big trend seems to be surgery. In an article that I found, there was a woman who has undergone 8 surgeries in order to have a bust size of FFF. An average breast augmentation is about 300-400 CCs of silicone. But this woman's implants contain 1000CCs or 2 quarts of silicone. Putting this much silicone into your body is hazardous to your back & shoulders as well as to the rest of your body (because it develops scar tissue against the silicone). Also, it doesn't say in the article, but on the original news broadcast, the reporter said that when the woman lays on her back she can hardly breathe. I find it extremely saddening that some take surgeries to such lengths to boost their self esteem and be more like the stars and models in Hollywood. The article also mentioned how breast augmentations have risen 900% in the last 15 years. So, even though not all go through such extreme surgeries as the woman in this article, women and men are doing more and more to reach their goal of perfection. The only trouble is, when will they ever be at that level? And, health-wise, is it really worth it?