Dear Media

moochachip
moochachip Posts: 237 Member
in Motivation and Support
I hate the fact that you make women feel like we need to achieve some kind of level to be beautiful or attractive.

You use Photoshop as well as unhealthy models to make us strive for something that is unrealistic and dangerous. Most of us secretly know this, but still try to use these pictures in magazines and models on TV as guides for how we should look. We use plastic surgery, fad diets, and clothing 'tools' to measure up.

You have put one too many girls in hospitals, and even under the grave but still have people eating out of your hand. Just stop.


Sincerely,

One Frustrated Woman

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  • Spanaval
    Spanaval Posts: 1,200 Member
    It really is scary, what the mainstream messages are doing to our girls. Trying to achieve the impossible.
  • sfoxy219
    sfoxy219 Posts: 103
    Make that 2 frustrated women.
  • DOElston
    DOElston Posts: 102
    I agree. Our society has brainwashed us so thoroughly that we think artificial looks natural.
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    You make a good point here. Often what we are shown as "beautiful" is in actuality "Anorexic" ... Same way on the male end... Looking at the photos of men in magazines or on the internet with 2% or less body fat and no place for their blood vessels but to pop half out there skin is not right either. Balance in all things.
  • DaniellePF
    DaniellePF Posts: 308 Member
    **************APPLAUSE**************:heart::flowerforyou: :heart:
  • sarah_7626
    sarah_7626 Posts: 31 Member
    I would just like to point out that the company that made this commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U (dove) also makes this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9tWZB7OUSU (axe). It's all about the money. Sad...
  • Kassieisproud
    Kassieisproud Posts: 149
    I was just looking this up But how does one even go about approaching this issue? I Think we are all to a certain extent brain washed by the media. For me the scariest part is knowing that theres a good chance that my opinions are not truely my own and since we are constanly surrounded by the media it is hard to figure out what i/we truely think is beautiful I hate thinking that somewhere in me im not doing all this for me at all
  • moochachip
    moochachip Posts: 237 Member
    I would just like to point out that the company that made this commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U (dove) also makes this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9tWZB7OUSU (axe). It's all about the money. Sad...
    That. Is one of the most revolting commercials I have ever seen.

    Kassie, we have been brainwashed whether we like it or not. It's standing together and saying no more that will end this - I don't want to have a daughter that has to fight the aneroxia troubles her mother did.
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    but magazines and television are there to advertise stuff to sell products. they are supposed to represent the ideal. i mean i never knew anyone who was happy to clean their floors like in pledge commercials.

    i never understood why people, especially girls, look to fake photo shoots to help develop their self esteem and ego. is that kinda what parents are for? maybe it's because i'm a non white american but i never got upset that cosmo, glamour, shape etc werent telling me that *i* was beautiful. my mom, dad, aunts, etc were the ones telling me that.

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