Has anyone seen that dove moisturiser advert? The one with the realistic looking women instead of super models who obviously didn't need dove moisturiser to make their body look better. Well I did and there has been a lot of controvesy over it. There were the women who wrote in saying that it was good to see normal looking women like themselves on TV rather than a model who just makes them feel ten times worse about how they look.
But, shockingly there were people who actually wrote in to magazines complaining about the fact that they had used these 'hideous creatures' instead of someone people like to look at. That is the most horrible thing I've ever heard anyone say and with comments like that in magazines it's no wonder there are so many anorexic and bulimic teens, and adults, in society. Why should people feel like they have to conform to what TV and magazines say they have to look like? What, we all have to be size 8 or we're a social outcast? It's physically impossible for the majority of us to have a body like a supermodel because that just isn't the way our genes work. Most super models are either naturally 'perfect' or are on some sort of mad diet to keep them looking like that.
And who decided what was perfect anyway? Just because we aren't size 8 why is it that we are considered fat or abnormal?
However, I have a feeling that skinny isn't going to be considered perfect for much longer. What with TV, for example the dove advert, finally accepting the size of normal women people surely can't keep seeing super models as 'normal' anymore? Because it isn't, if anyone in this world has an abnormal body size it is them because they are a few of the minority of people in the world who look like that and probably have a hard job to stay like that.
I, for one am glad to be the size I am and not have to work very hard to keep it like that. Why would I want my life taken over by a crash diet. No thanks, I'm not that sad.
Posted at 06:15 am by coolochic2
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Jen
October 30, 2005 01:58 AM PDT
excuse me MADISON how dare you call me green eyed for saying that its good for bigger people to be considered beautiful. Have you got any idea of the amount of torment and self doubt I have been through just because I'm not a 'model'. Did i say there anywhere that models weren't beautiful?? I'm assuming you're either a model or a size eight because it's clear that you don't have a clue what it feels like to be called fat or ugly. |
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Name Angelo
September 6, 2005 09:59 PM PDT
I think that the Dove add is great and more companies need to follow suit!! It is totally irresponsible for the media and fashion industry to keep exposing un healthy women!
I have to say though I don't agree with the product but the inclusion of real women is great! |
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Dallie
March 24, 2005 06:27 AM PST
jen you need a desperate update luv me xxxx |
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Madison
February 3, 2005 01:39 PM PST
If bigger bodies begin to be considered as more beautiful, what about those without?! Not everybody can fit the bill!
So, models are not beautiful are they not? why is everyone putting them down? Stop being so green-eyed and pathetic! |
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Emz
September 20, 2004 06:21 AM PDT
i'm a size 8 and thats due to me just the way i am..i haven't been on any mad diets. I hate being this thin and am far from 'perfect'...just shows that not all thin people are beatiful and so the stereotype of 'pretty' people should change to bigger people, more fuller figures are indeed more beatiful and should be used to advertise beauty products! |
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Name Adriana
September 6, 2004 02:53 AM PDT
I totally agree...those women in the advert were gorgeous looking women. Theyre not models but theyre confident, attractive and have got spunk. Who wants to look like a thin war torn waif anyway. Im a size 10 and i think everywoman should be shown on T.V commercials...All sizes please..... |
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nunabell barralalabell
May 12, 2004 01:05 PM PDT
i agree with LU at least now things are begining to change. But what about the people who spend thousands on lopking good? |
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LU
May 8, 2004 09:48 AM PDT
I'm not that sad either :)
It is ridiculous though, I can't believe people would actually complain to Dove about the advert, I think it's awful and you're right, it's those people who have made society what it is today, with all of the "perfect" stereotype thing.
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