Cosmetic Surgery and Just Cause

True true, you'd have to get back on your feet and back up to an active realistic physical status as soon as you healthily could do so, you wouldn't want to unnecessarily prolong your period of inactivity or it would just be all the more difficult to bounce back.

I do personally like the M4A1 a lot, with its collapsible stock, burlier look, and shorter barrel, and I think they look really awesome when equipped with a scope, laser sight, maybe a silencer, and definitely an M203 grenade launcher... Not personally a weapons fetishist, but I know a sexy gun when I see one.

That's true, being in a rank structure that doesn't primarily focus on looks is a good thing, although good looks never hurt anyone's career. No, wait, scratch that...

Well I didn't mean to insinuate it actually increases your performance. Beauty is often a status symbol - and just like dropping your ride three or four inches and getting 22" gold-spoked rims and a sound system doesn't increase its performance, it sure puts you head and shoulders above the doucher in the next lane driving an all-stock Prius or something. Again, however, that doesn't apply everywhere of course - many circles tend to eschew physical beauty and/or luxury, and some even hold in outright contempt. The cute hippie-type is probably gonna snub their nose at your bling, then ride off into the sunset in the Prius - which I suppose would be an analogy for someone rolling their eyes at the stereotypical Prince Charming/Beauty Queen type and instead getting with someone who has a more unique appearance with maybe an interesting but attractive quirk. It's all relative I guess, really.

Thanks, I try to post thought-provoking, or genuinely clever/funny, or sometimes personal things (even if controversial) and avoid the fluff
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You would think. It's just weird calling the same person Andy one day and Andrea the next. Or in the same day. I don't have a problem with the transitioning itself, but I find it awkward to greet him/her when I see him/her.

 

It's awkward for most people because it's something that's absent from our cultural awareness. Give it a few decades and we'll start seeing the idea of non-binary gender catching on.

 

Don't you mean no gender? I mean, what's the relevancy of something as ridiculous as your plumbing for 99% of everyday interactions. We're beyond those things. In the first world. For now.

 

I saw a video of a guy who went to Germany and gained 6 inches in a few months. He went from 5'6" to 6'. He went on to say he was going to do it again... (now that's too much I think) ( can't find the video...)
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Does that work in porn?

 

That's way too much to add to just your legs. You'd look like a cartoon character.

Sure, most of the actresses are pretty tiny so any dude looks like he could be 6'.

Wait, what are we talking about?

 

That's what I thought. If they just stretch the femur I'm sure your gait would look a little bit off, and then your arms would be relatively short, so T-Rex syndrome... ( I really wouldn't do this knowing the risks, but it's as close to cosmetic surgery that I would do. )

 

John Shirley writes some very good books about a time in the future when sex changes are so common that teenagers do them as a rite of passage.
Kind of 'you can't really be a grownup until you've been both sexes'.
I always found the idea really interesting.
It certainly would get rid of many of the problems we have but I'm sure that others would spring up that we haven't even thought of.