The Marquette Journal

It’s the year 2025 and almost everyone is beautiful, at least in the mainstream sense of the word. Symmetrical face, full lips and breasts, youthful skin: for a woman of the future, these features can be easily attained by a visit to the plastic surgeon. In fact, women with slightly larger noses or less-than-perky breasts [...]

We suffer from a centuries old epidemic without giving it a single thought. Side effects have changed over the years, for what once caused 18th century women to constrain themselves in corsets later inspired the 1960s “Twiggy” look and the 1990s “heroin chic.” Despite the body’s ever-changing paradigm of perfection, the ideological makeup of the [...]