"Pinning a kid's ears, repairing cleft palates, all good things. There's nothing positive in letting a kid suffer socially because of something so easily corrected."

Interesting point here. We accept elective surgery on children and infants who are incapable of consent in order to make their appearences more socially acceptable. (Cleft palattes I think are medically problematic, so I probably wouldn't include them here.) We reason that their lives will be better off if they appear a certain way.

Why can't a woman's life be better off for having elective cosmetic surgery? For those labeling these women as weak-willed or vain, so what if they are? Or are only the strong-willed, independent and "intelligent" women allowed to feel good about their bodies?

This also reminds me of the children's author who was under attack for using the word scrotum in a children's book. Or the theatre company who had to take down the word vagina from their signs advertising the vagina monologues. All it does is reinforce the idea that genitals are something dirty or shameful. If it is acceptable to change other parts of my body, then my genitals should be no different.