Thursday, June 3, 2010

Defining Pretty

So, I'm sorry for all the videos lately... I don't know what's up with this new addiction, but here's one more.

A couple of days ago, I was watching While You Were Sleeping on Oxygen, trying to keep my mind off my sore throat. Usually, I just mute the commercials and they don't phase me at all, but since my 10 year old brother Pete was in the room too, I started to notice more of what was being advertised. I know Oxygen is a "women's channel" but still, their commercials were crazy - almost every single one was for a diet plan, exercise machine, or some other product geared toward making women thinner, tanner, and more "beautiful". I'm all for being healthy, but do we really need this overload of the extremes? And then I saw this Dove commercial. It's scary to think of what little kids who watch this TV are thinking.



Listening to: "Wedding Dress" Taeyang
Thought of the Day: "What you do, the way you think makes you beautiful." - Scott Westerfeld

3 comments:

  1. I don't know if you were approving or disapproving of the Dove ad, but check out this remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDEF-w4rJk&feature=player_embedded#!

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  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDEF-w4rJk

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  3. Yeah...I did a report in my public speaking class about female body image and showed that video, along with this one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

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