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PlanningWithKids discovered this in Feminism
•8 reviews since May 9, 2008
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PlanningWithKids discovered 3 months ago- Proving again the media's ability to manipulate.
- spirulinai rated 2 months ago
- I knew the feminist claims in Dove ads were bullshit when I learned that the same parent company was responsible for Axe ..
- Rassgathole rated 2 months ago
- Years ago, I put on a pair of Levi's jeans. When I wasn't sexually assaulted by that one-eyed singing mermaid from "babylon zoo" my suspicions was aroused. My suspicion still grew after I had some cool-aid and a giant pitcher of cool-aid failed to burst through my wall screaming "OHYEAH" at me. Then when I realized that I just wouldn't walk a mile for a camel (unless there was a nuclear holocaust on and there really, really really were no other alternative), I started to think: Is it possible? Is there a slight chance that commercials are LYING to me?
- teslacoil rated 3 months ago
- Further information on the article here. In short, he asserts the statement was taken out of context and that he was directed to do [essentially only] "dust removal and color correction."
- Further information on the article here. In short, he asserts the statement was taken out of context and that he was directed to do [essentially only] "dust removal and color correction."
- Schitso rated 3 months ago
- What's the line from Bioshock? "Beauty is a moral responsibility" or something?
- yobaba rated 3 months ago
- "I [the article's author] mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual "real women" in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job [i.e., photoshopped]. "Do you know how much retouching was on that?" he asked. "But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone's skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive." Dillweed. I buy Dove bar soap, but not because of the ads. It smells good and it doesn't burn my skin. I couldn't care less about the ads and the sleazy ad-men who make them. Meh.
- CantaloupeSwing rated 3 months ago
- So the Dove ads are allegedly re-touched. Shock. Horror. The last bastion of "real" womanhood collapses before our eyes. We're the one's who buy into this crap so ultimately we're the one's to blame. We want perfection to the point that we even want our realism to be pretty. If you can look at a Dove ad with not even a glimmer of suspicion then you deserve this slap in your gullible face. I don't know why I'm thumbing this up because in all honestly I don't give a shit whether or not the Dove execs go in for a bit of air-brushing on the side. It's advertising. It's the media. We can be fooled everyday of our lives by something or other. There are more important things to be outraged about than this. If you are outraged go buy something that uses more obvious re-touching techniques in its advertising campaigns. That way you can hold your head high, safe in the knowledge that you're aware you're being duped.
- parataxic rated 3 months ago
- [The Dove ads: Lots of retouching? Really? Did you have to break our hearts?] "The article's author mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual "real women" in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job (master photo retoucher Pascal Dangin.) "Do you know how much retouching was on that?" he asked. "But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone's skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive." Retouchers, subjected to endless epistemological debates--are they simple conduits for social expectations of beauty, or shapers of such?--often resort to a don't-shoot-the-messenger defense of their craft, familiar to repo guys and bail bondsmen. When I asked Dangin if the steroidal advantage that retouching gives to celebrities was unfair to ordinary people, he admitted that he was complicit in perpetuating unrealistic images of the human body, but said, "I'm just giving the supply to the demand." "The resulting image can have one of two effects: Girls, boys, women, and men can see the image and 1) perceive it as real, assuming that it is the way a beautiful woman should look, or 2) see it as a grotesque, malformed person. We make the choice, and the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty makes the point well: we often can't tell whether an image is retouched. (See the irony here?) Will we continue to believe our eyes and try to get ever more "perfect"?
