Individuality or Mutilation?
We’ve all heard it before. Be individual! “The same is lame”-Pharrell Williams. Don’t be afraid to be different! But…What if different is not accepted by society?
Alexa Poletti is a 19-year old girl who loves anime. It’s common for her to be seen in wigs and contacts that make her eyes look huge to look like a walking anime doll. It makes her unique, and yet she is ridiculed and rejecte
d from society.
Alexa Poletti———->
Venus Palermo is also a walking anime doll. She is rejected from society and ridiculed because she looks like a living doll, but she is making a living looking the way she does.
Uproars take place on their Twitters, Facebooks, and Instagrams because of what they love to do. But the fight is…Are they trying to be individual? Or are they mutilating their bodies? Now you can think what you want but I think it’s okay as long as it can be reversed. Alexa Poletti can take out the contacts and take off the wigs and look like a normal teenager. But Venus…? She will forever be stuck looking like an anime doll.
Venus Palermo————->
Anastasiya Shpagina is a 19-year old Ukranian girl who has her own Japanese name and the makeup to make her look like a human doll. She spends 30 minutes each day on her eye makeup alone to ensure that she looks like her favorite anime character. She is friends with Valeria Lukyanova who is 21 from Russia and has had plastic surgery to look like a human Barbie doll! Valeria was attacked outside her home for doing something she loves to do! So what do you guys think? Individuality or Mutalism? Leave comments down below!
Anastaysiya Shpagina (Red hair); Valeria Lykyanova (Blond hair)
A • Feb 19, 2015 at 7:36 pm
Whoa! While we may, at first, perceive this as weird, they ARE expressing themselves. They’re not hurting anyone. It’s their personal choice. I think that it’s just individuality, much like getting a tattoo. It may be hard to get a job, or to look professional, but as long as you understand the long-term consequences, why not make yourself unique?
Molly Pinkstaff • Mar 11, 2015 at 5:15 pm
That’s what I think! I think you’re right, it is like a tattoo….minus the pain. With this it’s painless and they can take the makeup and wigs off and take the contacts out and they look human. To me, they’re expressing that they like anime. They are total otakus. (People obsessed with anime.) And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. (Honestly, if my parents would let me I probably would do what they do) I think it’s perfectly okay, and maybe the people who think it’s wrong and mutilation are old fashioned. Are they? Is this the world we live in today? (I think that will be my new article, actually. 🙂 )
Audrey Scott • Mar 19, 2015 at 8:12 pm
It should be, if you haven’t already done it! You could also talk about acceptance of those who are “different”, and how our parents’ generation says that ours is ruined, yet THEIR parents said the same thing.