The Dove commercial is stupid because they started with a girl who shouldn't be on a billboard to begin with.
Owen
I think Dove intentionally used a very ordinary looking woman who most people would consider pretty. Then they post process the hell out of the pictures to make her look like someone "who shold be on a billboard in the first place". I think the ad is about retouched images, or superhuman models like the picture you linked to, as role models and what that does to the average woman.
When I saw that video and read some of the replies the first thing that came to mind was the following verse from a song
You live in a world of illusion
Where everything's peaches and cream
And that my friends is where many in our society live. We see ads in magazines, on tv, in movies, We see the beautiful faces on the covers of magazines everywhere you turn. It's our society and only we can change that. Our children are growing up in a society built on lies.
My 20 year old daughter is caught up in all of this BS and it's importance. An hour a day is wasted in the bathroom on blow drying her hair, primping, makeup and the whole nine yards. (Multiply that over a year and that is 384 hours, 16 days in the bathroom a year) God forbid she has to go out of the house without makeup on. And believe me, we did not raise her to be like this. we have tried to teach her that the most important thing is what is on the inside, but thanks to the Private Education System (Whole Other Issue) and what we see advertised she has been lost to the Glitz and Glam of the illusion.
Thank god my other two daughters (11 & 6) have not bought into the hype as of yet and hopefully with a little luck they never will. We homeschool them so the peer preasure associated with the hype is not there, and we have taught them what is important and that what's inside is the key. They watch her getting ready to go out and laugh at the amount of time that she spends in the bathroom. They laugh at the many pairs of shoes that adorn the floor of her closet and literally hundreds of color cordinated outfits hanging there as well. Designer bags, designer clothes, sunglasses, and hell one of her friends just went out and spent $2000.00 on a designer dog. (smart credit card charge)
I credit Dove with bringing this issue to light in this video and hope that by their efforts they can convince the young adults of tomorow that there is more out there then what they are being mislead to believe. And I also hope that other companies will follow n there footsteps and see this as a way to help in the effort as well.
My little rant for the evening, have a great night.....
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I think Dove intentionally used a very ordinary looking woman who most people would consider pretty. Then they post process the hell out of the pictures to make her look like someone "who shold be on a billboard in the first place". I think the ad is about retouched images, or superhuman models like the picture you linked to, as role models and what that does to the average woman.
Malte
When I saw that video and read some of the replies the first thing that came to mind was the following verse from a song
You live in a world of illusion
Where everything's peaches and cream
And that my friends is where many in our society live. We see ads in magazines, on tv, in movies, We see the beautiful faces on the covers of magazines everywhere you turn. It's our society and only we can change that. Our children are growing up in a society built on lies.
My 20 year old daughter is caught up in all of this BS and it's importance. An hour a day is wasted in the bathroom on blow drying her hair, primping, makeup and the whole nine yards. (Multiply that over a year and that is 384 hours, 16 days in the bathroom a year) God forbid she has to go out of the house without makeup on. And believe me, we did not raise her to be like this. we have tried to teach her that the most important thing is what is on the inside, but thanks to the Private Education System (Whole Other Issue) and what we see advertised she has been lost to the Glitz and Glam of the illusion.
Thank god my other two daughters (11 & 6) have not bought into the hype as of yet and hopefully with a little luck they never will. We homeschool them so the peer preasure associated with the hype is not there, and we have taught them what is important and that what's inside is the key. They watch her getting ready to go out and laugh at the amount of time that she spends in the bathroom. They
I credit Dove with bringing this issue to light in this video and hope that by their efforts they can convince the young adults of tomorow that there is more out there then what they are being mislead to believe. And I also hope that other companies will follow n there footsteps and see this as a way to help in the effort as well.
My little rant for the evening, have a great night.....
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