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Kenny? wrote on 2013-04-17 18:56
[video=youtube;XpaOjMXyJGk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XpaOjMXyJGk[/video]
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Chiyuri wrote on 2013-04-17 20:34
People modify their personality and how they appear to others when speaking to them face to face.. I'm pretty sure the first drawing is closer to reality than the second one.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-04-18 20:15
Your speculation is cool and all, but as far as a subjective perception such as "beauty" goes, how you interprete it, makes it. That's kinda the point here: "they think you're beautiful, don't be so critical of yourself".
And damn, the first pictures that I saw were definitely more inaccurate than the second ones I saw.
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Claudia wrote on 2013-04-18 20:20
And yet they still use models that are pretty conventionally beautiful.
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-04-18 20:28
They look no better or worse than the average woman I see on the street.
Honestly, I don't think they think that this message is meant for anyone else, for a variety of reasons.
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Micho wrote on 2013-04-18 20:40
Here's a really well written tumblr post about this.
Here's a snippet from it.
Ps: Dove Marketing team is brilliant and talented, I will give them that, but they have also made some stopovers in Sketchsville… while they have done some cool things, like reminding us about how Photoshop distorts our image of beauty, they have also been accused of using photoshop themselves. They are also a little bit manipulative in their pleas to others to stop manipulating. Sometimes, they seem like they might be more than a little bit racist… and more than a lot bit racist (Skin bleaching? Really?!) And for all of their talk of “real beauty†and empowering women to be their best selves, Dove is owned by Unilever, which also own AXE, which is widely known for having some of the most blatantly sexist and objectifying commercials out there. See Hank Green’s video on the hypocrisy of major corporations here.
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Cynic wrote on 2013-04-18 21:01
The point of the video is still ridiculously true, though. A lot of people are very critical about themselves, when most of their supposed "flaws" are stupid little things that aren't actually all that bad, if they're even bad at all. Now, that's not to say that everybody who claims they have flaws are wrong, but most people only think that way because they don't match society's standards of beauty, as opposed to them actually thinking "eh.. I could change this" in a non-self-loathing manner.
i.e. somebody who is slightly overweight thinking "yeah, I could be a bit healthier" is way different than somebody who is of average saying "oh god I'm so FAT".
All in all, the problem is not having standards for yourself, but rather have wrong and unrealistic standards for the sake of being considered attractive by everybody else.
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Hanna wrote on 2013-04-18 21:18
ew ew ew ew EW I hate this commercial with a fucking passion
not only is Dove such a hypocritical company
they make it seem like the first pictures were "ugly"
what in the actual fuck
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Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-04-19 21:20
Quote from Micho;1070493:
Here's a really well written tumblr post about this.
Here's a snippet from it.
Hmm, very good.
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Kyishi wrote on 2013-05-19 06:01
I saw that add on youtube, it made me smile.