Still on Renée

Here's something to ponder: someone choosing to make fundamental changes to their whole body, as in gender reassignment surgery, would be praised, and praised whatever the aesthetic merits of the outcome might be. A woman chooses (at her own expense) to modify aspects of her face in response to the inevitability of ageing, and the metaphorical knives and pens are out, gleefully sharpened. Public opinion, like the contemporary notion of rights, is finite. Leeway given in one direction corresponds with censure in another.