This makes me fear for our girls.

There is a previous thread posted by SoaringEagle about the Dove Real Beauty campaign and how "beauty" is so industrialized. I saw this video and it shocked me a little, and it also kind of made me cry inside.

Girls should grow up with positive beauty images, not these billboards and magazine pictures of skinny, airbrushed, make up-ed women. This video proves that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li3mg1GrKe0

 

but the dove campaign itself is still troublesome. Sure, most of those women aren't underweight, but they are still painted head to toe with makeup, all traces of body hair removed, and they aren't really what most of us look like, are they? They want you to think they are being soooo progressive, when they aren't any different from any other big corporation, all they want is more sales.

 

At least it's something progressive. If a company would just show women plain and simple, then I don't think that they would last very long. People would watch the commercials and say, "Screw this, we're not buying something that's not going to make a difference to what we look like already." At least they're doing it in a way that isn't as offensive to women by posting some unrealistic 78 pond model.
The models don't have body hair and have clear skin because those are the types of products that doves sells. But they're using realistic women to sell their product so that other women can identify with them. I know I can, and I know lots of other women who can.

 

I think these girls were being honest. Dove also had a very good advert, where a womyn was up and down all night, taking her toddler into her bed, then the baby cying and her Nursing the baby, right in the commercial! I was SOOOOOOO happy, I called them and told them that everyone who mattered loved these adverts, so please don't let critics pull them. They said they wouldnt' sent me some free samples of "Dove Night" soap, and then the commercials dissappeared. I hope it wasn't from pressure from anti-nursing, anti-bedsharing forces. It was so beautitul, mama, daddy, tot and baby all in the same bed. Not something you see every day.

Anyway, many people do watch TV, and maybe those images and words will make a difference. The young mother was an underweight womyn. Yeah, the girls were virtually hairless, but it is damn hard to find a teenager with body hair in these dark days.

I would love to use this video to show those who say that Feminism has accomplished all it's goals and there is no need for it, now that everything is "equal." LOL! I may save this video, just for that purpose.

 

Commercials rotate on a regular basis... you can only play one so many times before it's no longer effective.

 

that was pretty wrong. But all you got to do is turn on MTV and be just as disgusted with media.

 

being skinny is healthy and sexy . But you should know borders or limits. being too skinny like that girl Richie is ugly and unheathy. Just eat healthy and do sports everyday, and you gonan be more than sexy

 

why are people against nursing and bedsharing? It must be a regional thing because here women breast feed in public all the time and no one even notices. I slept in the same bed with my grandma and grandpa until I was 4. I refused to sleep in my bed and no one was concerned about it.

Society is weird.

 

Ummmm... Yes, that is most of what I see when I look around here in Virginia. Sad but true.

And most of the undergrads here (University of Virginia) would just laugh if they had women on there with body hair and no make-up. I still doubt you'll reach most of them with these commercials, but you might possibly get their attention if the model is "at least attempting to 'take care of' herself", instead of some hairy "au natural" woman (translates to letting herself go).

 

Its sad that girls that young actually feel that way. While I think models are just for that purpose - modeling clothes or whatever, girls do look up to them. They shouldn't, but they do. I wish people would realize that all kinds of women are beautiful.
But then again, I think every girl goes through the ugly-hating-themselves stage. I guess sometimes they stay there. I went through that stage, hated my legs and my nose but I love every part of my body now. =)]
It is pretty scary though seeing that. *sigh*

 

Dove really are just trying to increase their sales, they also test on animals and have all the usual dodgy shit in their products. Don't be fooled by the ads.

 

It's true - models are for just that: modeling. I wish people would realize that every woman is beautiful to. D8

I think the women that love every part of their bodies are so lucky - they are the few and I respect them and I wish I could learn to love my body like they love theirs.

 

Not everybody is beautiful... People just have to come to terms with that.

 

A couple of quotes:

I wish people would realize that every woman is beautiful

and

Not everybody is beautiful... People just have to come to terms with that.

How about abandoning this whole concept of "beauty"? It only divides people and makes them feel inadequate, and desperate to spend money to buy hope from a corporation. It's like old-time religion, with everyone all anxious about who was among the Elect and headed for heaven, versus those who weren't and were on their way elsewhere.

If only we could just say "Everyone's different, and part of that difference is what we consider attractive. But we've just about all got something interesting about us." If we think about anyone's appearance, or our own, we could say, "Oh, normal I guess. Nothing special."

 

no. spooner's right.

its beneficial for those who are not pretty to come to terms with this early in life so they can start developing some attractive characteristics, like a good sense of humor, or something else to make them desirable. there is a genetic imperative to not be attracted to the ugly and overweight. such people should learn to do good by themselves, because very few others will make that effort. its one of those facts of life that everyone likes to pretend they're above. the truth is that if you are attracted to an ugly/overweight person its because of those other characteristics they were born with or have been steadily developing throughout their lives.


and if no one was special to look at, as amontillado says, we would probably stop procreating.

 

No no, everyone is special to their special someone! But it's this society-wide standard that every woman is so desperate to measure up to that does so much harm. It encourages those who think they meet it to feel superior, those who are convinced they don't meet it to fall into despair, and the vast majority who aren't sure, to worry themselves almost to death and spend their money on insidiously advertised commercial products, which logically nobody needs. In olden times women would go out to gather dew at dawn on Midsummer Day to wash their face in, to ensure beauty for the coming year; at least that didn't cost anything!

 

I could care less about reducing peoples' feelings of inadequacy.

If you're ugly, and it really makes you feel that bad, you have worse problems than being ugly. Its called being shallow.

 

the women are just as much to fault as the standard. like i said, unattractive people should consider working on building life skills, not collecting dew.