Beautiy is in the eye of the...Media???
By jess368
@jess368 (3368)
United States
February 9, 2009 7:20pm CST
You may have seen ads from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. For this discussion question, you need to view the following video by Dove that is posted on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT4dpFpiTgk
After viewing this video, please write about the main message of this video. What do you think this video is trying to tell us?
These are my thoughts...I believe the video made a huge point. No one is naturally perfect. No one wakes up and looks like the people we see on billboards, or in magazines. I think its important that someone (Dove) points this out to our young girls. We have been conditioned to believe that there is one look that is attractive, and everyone needs to strive to fit that.
I searched around on the dove website and found some very interesting, and scary statistics.
[i]"seven in ten girls believe they are not good enough, or do not measure up in some way, including their looks, performance in school and relationships with friends and family members."
"57% of all girls have a mother who criticizes her own looks"[/i]
With all of this being said, I think we could advertise more about being healthy. If everyone is healthy, meaning they eat right and get an appropriate amount of exercise everyday then we would have to worry about the one-size-fits-all mentality, we would all just be happy with ourselves because we are healthy, and the appropriate weight for our body types.
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3 responses
@cupid74 (11388)
• Pakistan
10 Feb 09
Hi Jesss
i think Dove want to clear Mis Conception of every one that its Not only Dove to make u look like beautiful but lot of other makeup and expertise are required to do it
And sure screen light is lot differnt than real life, Lot of Make, Lot of Lights and art of Remove and hide flaws, make it look Totally Differnt, and who try to follow them, i have no comments for them, just that, try to look at those celebrity in their real life with out make up.
So just be content what u r , and sure sure some cosmetic and expertise to be presentable
Take care
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@jess368 (3368)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I went to the Dove campaign for real beauty site. Under the girls only tab ( which they suggest for girls age 11 – 14) they have a test to see if you can tell an image has been manipulated. I found it a real challenge. When showing you the results of your answer they showed a split screen of before and after images. I think it great that a company is investing in improving the self-image of young girls today.
http://www.dove.us/#/cfrb/girlsonly/image_manipulation.aspx/
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@JoyfulOne (6231)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I think it's good that Dove tries to put it into the minds that we should love ourselves, and our bodies, just the way we are. For far too many years the media has been brainwashing us all into thinking if we're not thin as a rail we're too fat!! How wrong is that?! This leads to young women with eating disorders and putting their health at risk, just for the sake of what the media says should be our beauty ideal. It's no wonder that because of the media of the past so many women have self-esteem issues because they can never live up to that idealist perfection. Unfortunately, these young women don't realize that all pictures in the media are air-brushed to perfection, and that there is no 'body' in the world that is perfect!! We all have imperfections of some sort, and we should love us just the way we are.
I find it interesting that back in the 50's and 60's, Marilyn Monroe was considered extremely sexy and the 'ideal' of the times. Yet most don't know that Marilyn wore a size 12. The same for Sophia Loren, who was more curvy than a stick figure (like today's twiggy-type models.) Three cheers for Dove for getting the ball rolling on this kind of thing and showing women how they truly are!
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