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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 20:01:56 JST HebrideanHecate

   😩 Marjane Satrapti spoke of this too.

   https://iroon.com/irtn/blog/20821/as-a-child-i-couldn-t-wait-to-change-my-iranian-nose-now-i-ve-learned-to-see-its-beauty/

   “So when are you getting your nose job?” was a question 11-year-old me would often hear at my Iranian family gatherings in London. I had started saving my pocket money for the procedure when I was about seven. I would spend my evenings after school pressing down hard on the hump on my nose until the skin went red. I would push the tip up and flare my nostrils the way the YouTube video on how to make your nose smaller taught me. I would sleep with tape holding the tip of my nose up, praying for changes in the morning.

   It is common for people with Iranian heritage to have noses that are slightly bigger relative to the rest of their features, with a pronounced bridge and a downward droop. Different to the more commonly idealised smaller, straight or sloped and upturned western nose. With continuous exposure to western beauty standards through the media and celebrities, surgical alterations to the nose became a widespread and longstanding trend in Iranian society. Post-revolution, it became a sign of status and a way for women to align themselves with their admiration for western society and its apparent progressiveness. With time, men got in on the trend too. It has become a rite of passage, where parents will typically even “gift” the procedure to their children.

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     Lady Bexington (ladyfat@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 20:01:56 JST Lady Bexington

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     @HebrideanHecate "When I did see people who looked distinctly Iranian on TV, they were terrorists or depicted as victims of regressive lifestyles and values. "

     um...yeah well there is a really good reason for that...

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 20:03:48 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • Lady Bexington
     @Ladyfat @HebrideanHecate Or there were plot lines about people escaping tyrannical regimes for places of relative freedom to hold political and religious views that were not permitted in their own country.
     There's also a really good reason for that.