Get To Your Children Before the Beauty Industry Does
This video is beautiful, and thought provoking. If you don’t talk to your child at a young age about being comfortable with the way they look then the magazines, TV shows, movies, books they see and people they talk to are going to influence them first. You may have become accustomed to it like me. But this video by Dove made me take note of all the stupid crap I see everyday that makes me feel like I’m not good enough. The beauty industry is HUGE!
4 Responses to “Get To Your Children Before the Beauty Industry Does”
I’ve seen this before, and I thought it was really interesting.
Greenpeace came out with an ad mocking this called Dove Onslaughter (also interesting).
Disturbing!
Simi – I know what you mean about Dove making the video, but Dove has been a major leader in trying to change beauty advertising in the past few years. I love that I can see a large black woman and a medium sized white woman with cellulite next to a slim women in their ads and feel ok about myself because of it.
Someone had to step up, and it needed to be someone big with a revenue to be noticed.
On the other hand, thanks to Jackie for alerting me to this other video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odI7pQFyjso
mocking the Dove campaign by pointing out that their use of palm oil is destroying forests. Also a powerful video, and much more important!
It’s scary isn’t it? I’m vigilant about telling my bubby girl that she’s beautiful (she is!), but I constantly worry- with all the negative images that bombard females on a daily basis- wether it will be enough.
It’s kind of ironic that Dove made a video like this! But all the same, it has a great message.
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