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Bad Nose, Good Nose

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Unladylike Media

Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What happens when refusing a nose job means defying family tradition? Filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum shares why her mother endlessly agonized over the bump in her nose. Then, medical historian Sharrona Pearl deconstructs the "Jewish nose" myth, big nose stigma and rhinoplasty's vain reputation.

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0:00.0

Starbeams come to you.

0:02.6

I don't believe in changing things that you're given.

0:07.0

It's something is unnatural about it.

0:10.8

Is that why you never got the same kind of car

0:13.3

then sculpted nose, the other girls at Arasmas High got?

0:17.2

Well, many reasons. A, I didn't have the money.

0:20.4

B, I didn't like pain.

0:23.4

Three, I don't trust the doctors.

0:26.0

I mean, do you know what I mean? It's like if I could have taken off a...

0:29.4

Quarter of a millimeter over here and just twist it a little there.

0:34.4

But I don't trust that I would come out maybe looking like a funny, you know,

0:39.4

a nose job which is worse than what you have.

0:42.4

No, I actually like my nose.

0:44.4

It's all big but you can't have ever done that.

1:15.4

This is Unladylike. I'm Kristen and that was of course Barbara Streisand talking of course about her nose.

1:27.4

Her nose has been something that this pop cultural icon has never not had to talk about the fact that she...

1:37.4

No, she just doesn't want a nose job, other plastic surgery, fine, but fucking leave Barbara Streisand's nose alone.

1:46.4

I mean, really that could be why she built that literal shopping mall in her mansion basement and cloned her dog Samantha just to distract and get people to stop fucking talking about her nose already.

2:05.4

Ununladylike listener who asked to be identified as A can totally relate.

2:11.4

Well, as much as anyone can truly relate to Barbara Streisand earlier this year, A wrote into Unladylike.

2:21.4

I am an almost 30 year old woman and I've always had a big in quotes Jewish nose, which I feel I can say as a Jew.

2:31.4

It has been a silent and secret right of passage for the women in my family to get their noses in quotes fixed before graduating high school and I am one of the only women in my family that declined that procedure.

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