Why do white American women line up in large numbers to subject their faces to knives and hypodermics filled with poison? Why are they willing to spend approximately $400 every few months, risking drooped eyelids and frozen features, for a four-month sabbatical from wrinkles? The answer is simple: power and anxiety. Aging women are among the least powerful segments of the population.
Well, part of it is that women know we’re hard-wired when it comes to female beauty: Study finds beauty affects male brain like food, drugs
But men are lining up for Botox nights now so if image has become a cultural disease, I’d argue that we’ve caught it, too.