Everyday, girls all over the world are insecure about their
appearances because the media has completely distorted the real meaning of
beauty. If one asks a girl what beauty is, or if she can describe a beautiful
girl, it is most likely that images of half naked models and celebrities presented
on the covers of every magazine, in commercials and every other media outlet,
will consume the girl’s mind. Girls and even boys have come to associate very
specific attributes with beauty. These include, big boobs, teeny waist, big
butt, high cheek bones, big eyes, full lips, long eyelashes, thin legs, and so
on. But why? Why do so many girls think that if they don’t have all of these features—or
any of them for that matter—that they aren’t beautiful? It is because the media
and advertising companies have manipulated society into believing that such an
unrealistic, almost unattainable creature who has all of the attributes listed
above, actually exists. It does not.
This video shows exactly how advertising agencies change the way
everyone else thinks and feels about beauty—and themselves. Take a look!
I love the Dove Evolution campaign--and that ad is powerful. There's one thing, though: we have to remind ourselves that this, too, is an ad. They are using our sense of anger at marketing and our embattled self-esteem in order to sell us skin products. It's a good ad, yes, but it's an ad.
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