I just don't make a practice of posting videos but this one spoke to me. I'm so glad there are some larger corporations thinking about things. It's about self image and media.
we need to do something no one is doing enough, and while i do agree that we have to stop "purchasing" her, it also includes stopping watching shows that demoralize women and pit them against one another in beauty contests, we have to stop rewarding beauty and penalizing anything less than perfection, we have to stop rewarding people for the clothes they wear, we have to make priorities in schools for BOTH boys and girls to talk not only about the false representations of women but also of men, we have to get some feminist perspectives into grade schools and highschools, we need to emphasize health from a young age, we need to actively get the duct tape off our mouths when others enforce negative stereeotypes [for instance, while in NH, i heard a mother tell her child she was a "piggie" for eating the meal the woman had ordered for her], we need WAY more people of colour and size in entertainment to cross stereotypical lines, we need to stop glorifying hollywood [and i loves me sosme hollywood so that one is going to be so hard, i know]
remember dr phil used to be a positive, good show about helping people? i honestly used to watch that and really LEARN from it, about my motivations and why i did the things i did and why i let people make me feel certain ways, [and now its just jerry springer to the max.] the problem is, people [and i was guilty of this] are relying on television for mental and emotional help. we're a society shamed by needing mental help, we are denied the ability to express emotions without being told we are PMSing or acting like babies, people allow eating disorders to both extremes- its SO messed up.
media is so focused on women attacking women as entertainment that its frustrating to feel like any headway is being made. or when we are "empowered" its in sexual terms, STILL [suicide girls, the sexualization of child-to-teen girls, mens AND womens magazines]
i have a million other ideas.
the bottom line is, media may be responsible for bringing these ideas into out world, starting w/ twiggy as the thin thin model, but it is not the responsibility of media to change it. its up to US to force them to change. we're the ones with the power. we just never use it, and thats a sad thing.
its up to US to force them to change. we're the ones with the power
And talking to the corporations in their language (money) does force them. The small percent of us who don't "buy" into the plastic woman don't have much of an impact for them. I think if some women who do buy, switch over to Dove and they see that this "marketing tactic" works, they will continue it. The repercussions of this could be that other companies do the same and then suddenly there are more real women in the media/ ads.
In the mean time it can't hurt for girls to see ads like this uncovering the unrealness of models and ads.
switching to buy something different has absolutely no bearing on the realness of a woman. thats all im trying to say. advertiing companies excel at convincing us we need their shit, they dont give a crap who we are or how we feel. thats my point.
I do see your point and your right. I am just a hopeless optimist who tries to see the light at the end of any tunnel. Today I saw some light at the end of the advertising tunnel. It may be a bit poisoned but at least it is there.
I think you did a great job. No need to defend your opinion either, that part of the joy in life...that we are all different, in thinking, feeling, size, use of beauty products, indulgence in culture, everything.
Hope you feel better soon. I remember once bloggging while on some serious drugs and saying some really way out there things. Some people must have thought me a really strange (which I actually am). Don't worry I still think your "a fabulously delusional whack job" and love you for it.
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remember dr phil used to be a positive, good show about helping people? i honestly used to watch that and really LEARN from it, about my motivations and why i did the things i did and why i let people make me feel certain ways, [and now its just jerry springer to the max.] the problem is, people [and i was guilty of this] are relying on television for mental and emotional help. we're a society shamed by needing mental help, we are denied the ability to express emotions without being told we are PMSing or acting like babies, people allow eating disorders to both extremes- its SO messed up.
media is so focused on women attacking women as entertainment that its frustrating to feel like any headway is being made. or when we are "empowered" its in sexual terms, STILL [suicide girls, the sexualization of child-to-teen girls, mens AND womens magazines]
i have a million other ideas.
the bottom line is, media may be responsible for bringing these ideas into out world, starting w/ twiggy as the thin thin model, but it is not the responsibility of media to change it. its up to US to force them to change. we're the ones with the power. we just never use it, and thats a sad thing.
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And talking to the corporations in their language (money) does force them. The small percent of us who don't "buy" into the plastic woman don't have much of an impact for them. I think if some women who do buy, switch over to Dove and they see that this "marketing tactic" works, they will continue it. The repercussions of this could be that other companies do the same and then suddenly there are more real women in the media/ ads.
In the mean time it can't hurt for girls to see ads like this uncovering the unrealness of models and ads.
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i like to be optimistic as well, but as an INFJ personality, i have to always question intent. the "why" of something is vital to me :)
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Hope you feel better soon. I remember once bloggging while on some serious drugs and saying some really way out there things. Some people must have thought me a really strange (which I actually am). Don't worry I still think your "a fabulously delusional whack job" and love you for it.
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