Who thinks Dove's Beauty Campaign advertisements are sexist, chauvinistic, and totally degrading to women?

Question

Dove's Beauty Campaign advertisments are sexist. chauvinistic, and totally degrading to women.
What does being half-naked, and/or naked on national television, in magazines, pamplets, and mail in coupons have to do with self esteem and confidence?
Also, Dove's so-called campaign for " real beauty " is mostly ugly. There is nothing healthy about being overweight, fat, and/or obese with cellulite and high percentage of body fat.
Being healthy, excepting yourself for who you are and being happy shouldn't be the grotesque examples Dove has shown.
Being healthy without being too scrawny like the unrealistic examples shown by modelling agencies is being fit by having lean, firm, well-toned, solid healthy muscle tone.
Muscle weighs more than fat however it's much smaller than fat. It's also healthier than fat, although we do need a little fat to function plus some vitamins are fat soluble so we need some fat to absorb them. You'll have problems with too much fat, like those Dove broads.

Dove should've advertised fit women.
I didn't say model thin.
I didn't say everyone had the same same body.
People work out to look good for themselves, not to be model thin.
People who workout will never be model thin because they are exercising their muscles which become developed through exercise.
There is nothing healthy about being fat, and/obese because there a lot of health issues that happen such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, short breath,respirartory problems, dizziness, fainting, heart disease, heart stroke, clogged arteries, arthiritis, aching back from too much belly, and curved spine to name a few.
Also, women who gained far too much weight during their pregnanies get underweight, c-section babies with respiratory problems, look at what happened to Britney Spears children when they were born, she had c-section operation to get them out because gained too weight from pigging out on disgusting fatty, greasy, salty, fast food.

I didn't say model thin.
Model thin is just as unhealthy as obesity.

Dan B, exercising with weights in weightroom will provide better, healthier results.
Diet pills are lethal.

Stacey I gave you positive hands up for your answer because you say 13% body fat for women is healthy and your right that. You`re right about not having enough fat being too harzardous, however you're still wrong about 33% fat being healthy and those unhealthy Dove women being healthy.
I didn`t say stick thin.
I said fit, healthy, well toned lean ,muscle .
Working out could be as short as 50 mintutes 5 times a week.
There is no excuse for no time at all to work out. Everyone has time to exercise for at least 50 minutes 5 times a week.
I didn`t say anything about pills.
Pills aren`t the same thing as working out. People who have perfect bodies through pills are just as disgraceful and embarrassing to the human race as those Dove Campaign ad women.
Yes, I do think they are grotesque because they are grotesque with their fat, flabby, sagging, droopy, lumpy, limp oversized cellulite bellies, that is not beauty, it`s ugliness.

Answer 1

First, I think the word you want is "accepting", not "excepting". While they're essentially homophones, they're meanings are very different, almost opposite.

I agree with the others. Recently I saw a commercial for Victoria's Secret. I thought the model was way too skinny. When I was sitting recovering from childbirth, I was flippng channels and stopped on "America's Next Top Model" on MTV. Something was mentioned that a "plus sized" model was never going to be on the cover of "Vogue". Something was also mentioned that "plus size" was size eight. Yikes. I'm six feet tall, weigh 186. Not bad considering I started my pregnancy at 170.

Other than I'm still wearing maternity clothes, I'm happy with my body. The October issue of "Parents" magazine has an article on clebrety weight loss post-birth. Heidi Klum, said, according to the article, that she was under contract with Victoria's Secret to lose her pregnancy weight in just one month. That's sick. From the magazine, "Reportedly, her $25 million deal with Victoria's Secret bans her from 'altering her image'. Yuck.

I'm happy that I'm a real woman in the real world. My husband and I don' have millions of dollars (or even million) coming in, and we're living on student loans and mediocre savings, but we're happy and my husband finds me very sexy and impatiently waiting for my post-natal doctor's visit.

If you don't like the campaign, contact Dove and don't buy their products. I use some Dove products, but I either get them free from the site, or for next to nothing, thanks to sale prices and double coupons. (They were on sale for $3, and my dollar coupons doubled. So I have three bottles of shampoo/conditioner combo. Now that my daughter is here and I don't have much time to shower, when I do get to shower. I digress.)

Also, my daughter was six pounds, two ounces. I lived on real food during my pregnancy. I do not eat foods with artificial junk, in them. On Wednesday, she was up to six pounds, thirteen ounces. She's healthy. Also, I had a vaginal birth. It wasn't as natural as what I had wanted, with my being induced (my doctor thought her weight was tapering off, and might be better out than in). I wasn't overly crazy about that, but this is a different discussion.

Answer 2

Honestly I totally disagree with your question and comment. The perception of what it means to be beautiful has for far too long been seen as an individual being skinny and tall with flawless features a big boobs-we have Barbie and friends to thank for that. I dont beleive in the word ulgy however I do beleive that everyone is beautiful in some way or another even if they are overweight, wrinkley, grey or covered in the dreaded 'orange peel'. We all dream about being smaller, or being some way different to what we are but reliaty prevails. Un less you have the income of Donald Trump I dont think it is relaistic to you want to be excatley like Kate Moss or Tayra Banks-even with all the advancements in plastic sugery there is still limitations to what they can do. Besides whats so bad about being you??? Why must we all confirm to someone else standards??? To be obese isnt healthy and it creates several health prolembs we are all aware of that, but neither extreme is not good for you. There is nothing healthy about a nineteen year old girl starving herself to 'fit in' or feel accepted. Doves campaing is for the every woman not just the particular or typical model type that exisit in this small minded world. Women come in all shapes and sizes not just a size zero-is it so bad that they want more women and people to have more self esteem and confidence about themselves??? I say fair duce to Dove for getting such an importortant message out there even if it dosent meet your approval. We are all entilted to our opinion at the end of the day but I just think we should all look outside the box more.

Answer 3

What an over-exaggeration. So some of the women in the Dove ads have a higher than average body fat. I doubt they are obese and cellulite has nothing to do with health, so I don't even know why you are bring that into it.

Oh, and I bet you are one of those people who has such a wharped idea of a healthy body fat percentage, like you think 15% body fat is ideal for a female and anything over 22% is unhealthy....well if that's the case, you are the one with unrealistic ideals. Not every woman has a spare 12 hours to workout every week and cash to buy a million supplements.

And remember too little body fat is just as harmful as too much. Too little body fat can cause loss of menstrual cycle, infertility, osteoperosis, impaired immune function, chronic fatigue syndrome just to mention a few. Most doctors recommend women do not go below 13%-17% body fat and that up to 30%-32% fat is acceptable.

Answer 4

You need to wake up and smell the coffee. Not everyone is interested in being the same body type. What dove is saying is be happy with who you are. You have to be happy with who you are even if you would like to be thinner. I am probably overweight by most people's standards, but I'm happy. I've lost 120 lbs and I have loose skin that toning doesn't do anything for. I guess I should hide in the closet.

Answer 5

It's ironic that you label the commercials as sexist, chauvinistic, and degrading, and you defend your position using offensive stereotypes and pushing on us what you see as "ideal". For someone concerned with sexism and chauvinism, it's odd you're inclined to buy into what the media and our culture pushes on our culture as a beautiful woman should look like. You missed the entire point of the campaign.

It's also worth pointing out that you might with some research you could dispel some of your misunderstandings regarding fat, cellulite, health, etc. Several of these issues are influenced heavily by genetics more than lifestyle. It's entirely possible for them to appear unhealthy to you but in actuality be perfectly healthy. You make not like it aesthetically, but it's the truth.

Just in case I wasn't clear...no, I don't find the campaign ofensive at all. I also hope you're a little more open-minded and understanding with loved ones in your life (especially if/when you have children) should they lack "real beauty" because they're "fat, and/or obese with cellulite".

Answer 6

By showing women on their commercials who are NOT anorexic, starved, unhealthily skinny model types Dove is TRYING NOT to be sexist and chauvinistic. The biggest harm is caused by only showing models with unrealistic body types. THAT'S what hurts women's self-esteem and makes them aspire to something unrealistic. Dove is trying to get away from that by showing 'normal' looking women. They should be applauded for their effort, even if you think they could do better.

Answer 7

Dove's campaign is not about fitness, its about accepting who you are and seeing yourself as beautiful. That does not mean that you shouldn't take care of yourself by eating right and exercising. Not every woman on the planet can have the body that we normally see in magazines. We aren't all built like that.

As someone else said, real = realistic. I think the campaign is refreshing, to be honest.

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Answer 9

real meaning realistic. so people can have realistic goals and see that beauty isn't the perfect body or perfect face. toned bodies are HEALTHIER, but it doesn't mean they are more beautiful.

Answer 10

You're an idiot.