如果有人整容整的非常明顯,你該認可嗎？

If Someone Has very Obviously Had Cosmetic Surgery, Should You Acknowledge It or Not?

如果有人整容整的非常明顯，你該不該承認呢？

It’s a tough one, I grant you, Geoffrey. After all, the person has submitted themselves to an extraordinary amount of pain and cost. Surely, you might think, the polite thing would be to acknowledge it? You might think that, but you would be wrong. The polite thing is to pretend the person has always looked like this. Vogue has a corker of an example of that this month in its interview with Renée Zellweger. Now, Zellweger looks a little different these days. How to deal with this silicone elephant in the room? Easy: “Let’s get it out of the way: Renée Zellweger looks perfectly normal to me,” the interview begins. Um, OK! “And if she has done something to her face (and does it really matter?), then hats off to her, she looks terrific.” How’s that for some fancy footwork? She doesn’t look like she’s had anything done, but if she has, GOOD FOR HER.

這是個很難的問題，我把這個問題交給你了傑弗裏。畢竟，這個人也承受了非凡的疼痛和代價。當然，你也許會認爲，想要禮貌點的話就是承認整容？你也許是這麼想的，但這是錯的。想要禮貌的話，就是去假裝這個人看上去一直就是這樣的。《時尚》雜誌本月在採訪Renée Zellweger時有一個十分了不得的例子。現在，Zellweger看上去有點不一樣了。如何在訪問室裏與這個硅膠大象打交道呢？很簡單：“讓我們切入正題：我覺得Renée Zellweger看上去很正常，”訪談開始了。恩，好的！“如果她的臉動刀子的話（這真的很重要嗎？），然後向她致敬，她看上去棒呆了。”這樣一個花式步伐如何？她看上去不像動過刀子，但是如果她動過的話，真是好樣的。

Here’s my tuppence on the matter: no one should be judged, negatively or positively, for doing whatever they want to their body. It is this judgment that makes people who have had the work feel like they have to deny the obvious. The best thing for everyone is if the person who has had the work laughs at the critics and gossips and makes like Dolly Parton who famously said: “If I have one more facelift, I’ll have a beard.” Now I’m not saying Zellweger has had work or not, but I do think all of our lives would be marvellously improved if she started cracking jokes about pubic facial hair in Vogue.

這是我對這個問題的建議：沒有人應該因爲對自己的身體做了想要的改變，而被別人指指點點，不管是好的還是壞的。正是這種指指點點使整容的人覺得他們應該要否認這種明顯的整容。對於每個人來說都最好的就是，如果這個整過容的人嘲笑批評家和散播流言蜚語的人，並說了多麗•帕頓曾說過的一句有名的話：“如果我整過容，我就會長鬍子。”現在我不是說Zellweger動過刀子了，但我的確認爲如果她開始在《時尚》雜誌上公然的開起面部毛髮的玩笑，那麼我們的生活都會得到很大的改進。