Sure, I tackle controversial topics. And there are a range of views out there on abortion in Canada.
I don’t know anyone, pro-life or pro-choice, left or right, who wouldn’t agree with the idea in this ad. Courtesy of one part of the beauty industry, to be sure, but they did a good job at visualizing the horrible onslaught our young people face. The only thing I’d add is that this barrage of photoshopped, hyper-sexualized “beauties” is just as bad for boys.
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And yet, Dove has the same parents company as Axe, Unilever. Though this message is good, they are a tad hypocritical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDEF-w4rJk
Thanks, Tish. Yes, they are part of the problem. Sigh. Still, the ad as a stand alone thing–to talk to your kids and maybe boycott products that use particularly offensive advertising–isn’t bad.
Now if we could only get the message out that parents should really talk to their kids about sex before they are blown away by the very same kind of onslaught…
How do you get it across to a pre-teen girl that the vast majority of images and depictions of female sexuality are unrealistic if not downright harmful? This is the world she has been raised in, and that is what she is accustomed to.
The fact that Unilever feeds both sides — first degrading women with their Axe ad campaigns, and then outraging us with a mile-a-minute slideshow of these very aberrations — it’s all wily advertising.
But not wily enough. It would seem the URL mentioned in the video has been taken over by a diet company while a Dove employee slept through the renewal notices. (Or am I the only one being offered coupons to lose weight at that address?)
This article reminds me of the advertisement, though they focus on different things. The advertisement focuses on how we bombard girls with advertisement, the article, on how our own conversations with them pressure them: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html