Sointu Borg takes a firm stand on the controversial topic.
Chorus Borg roars with botox and fillers. ATTE KAJOVA
Media personality Sointu Borg, 33, has taken a strong stance on the use of botox and fillers on his Instagram account. He feels that openness is punished.
First, Borg points out that the discussion criticizes individuals who are seen as supporting a distorted body that fulfills Western ideals of beauty.
– Attention should be focused on the system and structures themselves.
Secondly, in Borg’s opinion, condemning women who have taken botox raises one’s own moral or social status.
– The silent message is: “I am better, more awake or stronger because I haven’t done anything to my face”.
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With about ten years of experience, Borg states that body peace does not apply to women who have undergone operations.
– My appearance can be criticized as unnatural, my face disgusting, my tits harsh. The list goes on… I am free game, so to speak, Borg downloads.
Women’s bodies have been controlled for millennia, and now, in Borg’s opinion, the control is continued by the need to remain authentic and organic.
– Control is still control, even if it is justified by naturalness.
According to Borg’s experience, a woman who uses fillers has somehow betrayed her own gender.
– So am I a bad role model when I take botox?
Finally, she wonders where the line is drawn if make-up, straightening teeth, skin care and shapewear are accepted as choices, but botox is raised as a subject of moral evaluation.
In the descriptive text of his publication, Borg continues to reflect on openness.
– Is the fact that I say that I use Botox a silent message that everyone – especially young people – should do the same? Of course not.
Botulinum toxin is also known as botox. Botox is the product’s trade name. Illustration image. ATTE KAJOVA
Borg’s post has garnered thousands of likes. Several well-known women have also commented on the publication from different perspectives.
– Really good writing, commented Iida Vainio.
Journalist Ina Mikkola has commented at great length in two different comments on Borg’s position and calls for a discussion.
– Demarcation becomes clear only when it is discussed, and on the other hand, it is never black and white, he writes, among other things.
– Good speech. Unfortunately, body peace doesn’t seem to apply to everyone, writes the freelancer who just published the book, ex-officer and podcaster known from Tabucäst Nico Lingman.
– Same thoughts about this, says Erika Helin.
– This, says Shirly Karvinen.
Social media influencer Jenni Rotonen also writes at length in her comment.
– When more and more people around join this trend, it also creates pressure for others to take these measures. It can already be seen that people’s images of what a naturally aging person looks like are really distorted, and it causes a lot of unnecessary appearance pressure for many people, he writes, among other things.
– That is, yes to a critical discussion about risks, norms, appearance pressures and mild phenomena, but no to any kind of criticism of others and violation of body peace, he adds at the end of his answer.