"Those are the functions assigned to genders in the traditional, patriarchal marriage."

By whom? There is no actual agency that imposes that arrangement. I've been married a couple of times, and no one sat me or my prospective spouse down and laid out the rules for us. As adults we could do what ever the hell we wanted to. We're not in Iran.

Madonna's plastic surgery almost certainly has more to do with commerce than human relations. Even Marilyn Monroe had work done. Show me some actresses or musicians over 60, man or woman, who have obviously stayed away from the knife,