I've been recently told by a reader that my opinions have no place in the newspaper, but oh well, I just can't help myself.
A recent headline in another publication grabbed my attention: Illegal butt implants killing, maiming women.
The lead was even more gripping: "Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks bigger, often involving home-improvement materials such as silicone injected by people with no medical experience."
"That can't be right," I think, but as I continue to read I find out there are women who want bigger bottoms. Wow! Talk about a serious generation gap. While I've come to accept the expanse that has followed me around for more than five decades, I can't ever imagine a situation in which I would actually go to pain and expense to make it bigger.
Apparently a celebrity by the name of Kim Kardashian is one of the factors driving this new desire for a more flamboyant derriere. I don't know anything about the woman, and a quick Internet search failed to turn up and shots of her famous butt. But, all the power to her, if she can make a big rump fashionable. At least men will finally know the correct answer to, "Honey, does this make my butt look big."
