I think its sad that its assumed woman have boob jobs for men . The woman I know had there boobs done for themselves , to look better and feel better about themselves.
I don't think most people assume women get boob jobs
for men. They get boob jobs to get more attention
from men ---> which gains the envy of other women ---> which raises their self esteem. Which is what the OP was saying (though I disagree with the rest of his post). Humans are social creatures, seemingly women more than men. Anything that raises apparent status is a boost to confidence. It is usually a purely selfish choice. It's the same reason people get lip injections or facelifts. It's because they feel inadequate and don't want to feel that way anymore.
You can bet that if men could get safe penis enlargement for an affordable cost, most would be doing it.
The sad part is that most people who think they are inadequate are dead wrong. That's what leads to cases where totally unnecessary and possibly detrimental (cosmetically or health-wise) operations are performed on women in an escalating spiral of inadequacy. One specific, relevant example I can think of is Jasmin @ Pure Spa. She already had implants, but she got incredibly lucky in that the look/size suited her perfectly and they felt amazingly natural. Then she wanted bigger. Why? Because she was envious of her fellow, bustier attendants who also had larger frames more suited to their bust size. I haven't seen Jasmin post-op yet, but seeing as you can't improve on perfection...well? I don't mean to highlight Jasmin in this thread; she's beautiful and incredibly charming and you should go see her right now! I just bring her up because that was a truly head scratching moment for me when she said she was going under the knife again.
I have a friend who had both breasts removed , not because she had cancer but because her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 35 , scared her enough to have them removed because she carried the breast cancer gene and it was 96% chances she would get breast cancer too . She was 30 yrs old , straight , single very attractive but to save her life she took this very radical approach . She went through tons of counseling before hand , had her nipples and Areola harvested so they could reattach them later . She contacted a very bad infection they had to open her back up clean it all out then just heal before they went any further . Horrible scaring from the procedure and infection then after a year they implanted what they called expanders in her chest were her breasts would be once they got to level the doctors felt fit her body and would not invade her chest cavity too much they opened her back up and used the scars she already had to attach her Areola and nipple , then more waiting to make sure the tissue stayed alive and didn't reject her harvested nipples , 6 months later she was in the clear , no infection , no rejection . I got to see them for the first time a few weeks ago . They look very real , very natural , not hard and move about freely , they are not perfectly round and her nipples and Areola are a bit off to the side which was her choice to cover up the scare ( if they had centered them she would have had a scar on both her breasts on each side next to the Areola ) they are just slightly off center . But yeah she had her boobs done and went through an infection , extreme pain and 2 Areolas and nipple attached to her groin area because she was hoping a man would find her more attractive not to mention this whole process took 2 years . Give me a break !
That's a very extreme example that really doesn't argue your point very well.
Women get boob jobs because they want to appear attractive to which ever sex they are attracted to and to improve their social status. It's the same reason they wear make-up. It's the same reason both men and women get facelifts. And a variety of other procedures. Saying women do it "for themselves" does not actually explain
why they do it, or is simply a vague way of saying they do it for the reasons I already mentioned.
Of course it's not all about men. It's more about the individual making the choice. But it does involve other people, specifically getting a step up on them.