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sailorzeoJust something I need to get off my chest. This actually happened a few days ago, but it's still irking me a little.
You know that Dove commercial, the one with the slender redhead, the two pregnant women, the BBW, and the older woman, all in their underwear? Where the song in the background goes, "What if we loved our skin?" etc? Well, it was on the other day as our roommate came out of his room. He groaned and commented, "I hate this commercial. I don't want to see that!" I just looked at him funny. He went on to say, "There's only one on there even halfway worth looking at." He was referring to the slender redhead.
Now, Chris is no specimen himself. If you looked up "skinny white boy" in the dictionary, you'd see his picture. He's pencil-thin, pale, and bald as a chihuahua. I think he missed the point of the commercial. One, it's not aimed at men. It's aimed at women, making them appreciate their own bodies. Two, not every woman is model perfect. Look at me. I'm 5'6" and 235 pounds...and I was standing right next to him as he made that comment. Obviously, someone wanted to see me in my underwear, as I'm married and have a rather healthy sex life.
The last image on the commercial is a web address, www.campaignforrealbeauty.com. If you go to that website, you'll see that Dove is collecting pictures of real women that someone thinks is beautiful. The blurb says: Be part of the worldwide effort to show a new, wider definition of beauty by sharing a photo of a female you personally know and that you would consider beautiful. Dove's goal is to collect one million photos. Every photo collected will support a donation to the Dove Self-Esteem Fund.
I went to the website. I looked at the photos. And more often than not, the photos I saw were of women NOT model-thin. They were REAL women. And as the title of an indie film stated, real women have curves. We are not sticks with boobs. Dove's working to redefine beauty through self-esteem. And I'm all for that.
My husband thinks I'm beautiful. Yes, I'm dieting and exercising to lose weight, but it's to be healthy. Not to reinforce society's standards of beauty. Chris can go soak his head as he looks for a stick with boobs.
You know that Dove commercial, the one with the slender redhead, the two pregnant women, the BBW, and the older woman, all in their underwear? Where the song in the background goes, "What if we loved our skin?" etc? Well, it was on the other day as our roommate came out of his room. He groaned and commented, "I hate this commercial. I don't want to see that!" I just looked at him funny. He went on to say, "There's only one on there even halfway worth looking at." He was referring to the slender redhead.
Now, Chris is no specimen himself. If you looked up "skinny white boy" in the dictionary, you'd see his picture. He's pencil-thin, pale, and bald as a chihuahua. I think he missed the point of the commercial. One, it's not aimed at men. It's aimed at women, making them appreciate their own bodies. Two, not every woman is model perfect. Look at me. I'm 5'6" and 235 pounds...and I was standing right next to him as he made that comment. Obviously, someone wanted to see me in my underwear, as I'm married and have a rather healthy sex life.
The last image on the commercial is a web address, www.campaignforrealbeauty.com. If you go to that website, you'll see that Dove is collecting pictures of real women that someone thinks is beautiful. The blurb says: Be part of the worldwide effort to show a new, wider definition of beauty by sharing a photo of a female you personally know and that you would consider beautiful. Dove's goal is to collect one million photos. Every photo collected will support a donation to the Dove Self-Esteem Fund.
I went to the website. I looked at the photos. And more often than not, the photos I saw were of women NOT model-thin. They were REAL women. And as the title of an indie film stated, real women have curves. We are not sticks with boobs. Dove's working to redefine beauty through self-esteem. And I'm all for that.
My husband thinks I'm beautiful. Yes, I'm dieting and exercising to lose weight, but it's to be healthy. Not to reinforce society's standards of beauty. Chris can go soak his head as he looks for a stick with boobs.
