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Maybe you have heard of the new Dove soap commercial but if
you haven’t, I thought I would fill you in.
Dove recently came out with a new commercial called Dove
Real Beauty Sketches. They had someone come in, Gil Zamora, who is a forensic
artist. A forensic artist works in criminal stuff. Someone can describe a
possible suspect and he draws what they describe. Dove had him come in and put
him behind a curtain and had different women come in and describe
themselves to him. Later, they had someone else who had just met the other
person describe them. The differences were shocking! Here is the commercial…
What did you think? Pretty awesome, no?
When I first saw this, the first thing I thought of was our
Miss Representation unit in my AP Lang class. The whole unit we talked about
how the media affects the way women see themselves and this is a perfect
example of how it plays into our everyday lives. These women in the commercial
are your average woman, not jaw-dropping gorgeous yet not hideously ugly. They are
just that plain and simple beauty. Yet when they describe themselves, they
describe themselves in a degrading way, making them appear less than they
actually are.
I think this was an eye opener for women all over. How you
see yourself is NOT how others see yourself. You may hate the color of your
eyes, thinking they have no distinct color to them but to someone else, your
eyes might be your best feature. It’s pretty amazing to see how you see
yourself compared to how someone else sees you.
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