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Doves latest self-esteem campaign. thoughts?

Doves latest self-esteem campaign. thoughts?

I wish I could hear it at work. Seeing all of those images-their sameness-is a little grotesque to me. All of those different, yet exactly alike, fix-your-obvious-aesthetic-problem with this pill talking heads creeped me right out.

Well, hmm. I do think the issue is real, but I also think that addressing it requires more than just talking to your daughter.

Well, hmm. I do think the issue is real, but I also think that addressing it requires more than just talking to your daughter.

Sure, but Dove has to pick an angle to attack it from, and that's probably the one that fits best with its company mission.

I have mostly a yeah-and? reaction to the campaign. Women can be hard on themselves and each other when it comes to looks.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Yeah, DJ I don't mean to imply it's Dove's job to solve the problem, just that really? all the ad offers is reassurance to the mom/consumer that of she wants her daughter to believe she's beautiful just the way she is.

Far more disturbing to me is the Nolita campaign that uses an anorexic model posing in the nude to what? Raise awareness of anorexia and sell clothes? Does that work? I'm not even sure if I should post the link, the billboard is that disturbing.

Women can be hard on themselves and each other when it comes to looks.

I think a lot of those images are why though. This is what we're told we need to look like to not end up alone, to get ahead, to be feminine.

Whether or not it's actually a load of crap doesn't matter a whole lot.

ETA: Burrell, I think it does help though. I don't just mean telling their daughters "you're pretty just the way you are" (which granted, I can't hear the thing, so I could be talking out my ass), I mean talking about why pretty=thin, pale and adolecent and at the risk of sounding like a humorless feminist, what it means to live in a patriarchal society.

I do think it's important to teach kids (not just girls) that what they are seeing on TV is designed the way it is to get them to believe certain things -- whether it's about thinness or anything else.

Oy. Next couple of days are going to be tough.

Geez, seriously.

Far more disturbing to me is the Nolita campaign that uses an anorexic model posing in the nude to what?

I read an article about that campaign that says the woman is not a model, but is a 27-year-old who has had anorexia for 14 years, and appeared on the billboard to "demonstrate how dangerous the disease is." t edit I should note that I have NO idea if that's true or not; it's just what the article (in the UK Daily Mail, IIRC) reported.

I imagine that Nolita thinks that they'll win points for seeming to care about how fashion images can contribute to an atmosphere that makes eating disorders common. Like, "Oh, I'll buy their $75 t-shirt [or whatever] because they CARE about me, the consumer, and don't want me to feel bad about myself just because their models are half a foot taller and 80 pounds lighter than me!"

This is what we're told we need to look like to not end up alone, to get ahead, to be feminine.

Too often it's not by the guy who they're probably going to spend the rest of their lives with.

Honestly, the damage is so deeply rooted in some of my family and friends it doesn't matter who they're taking to bed or living with or employing or working for. In scenarios like that I think it's woman on woman pressure, as in the woman on herself.

Ugh. I had more thoughts but someone walked past my cube wearing perfume, and now I have nothing but a migraine. I'm going home.