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.

I didn't say be stick thin!
I said being overweight in fat, and being fat and/or obese is unhealthy.
Being overweight in lean, firm, solid muscle is healthy, because muscle is energizing, burns fat faster, and prevents cellulitew from appearing if regular exercise is done.
Children watch television for cartoons, they don't want to see naked people on television. Yes, people should think of their health, not keep their cellulite because there are health problems caused by it, such high blood pressure, high cholesteral, heart disease, heart strokes, clogged arteries, short breath, artheritis, aching backs from having a big drooping belly, curved spine, to name some the few.
Just because you have children doesn't mean you should just be unfit. There are women who have had children that are fit.

Obesity is just as unhealthy as stick thin.
I didn't say stick thin.
I said fit, you exercising, sports etc.
Yes, I do think they are also chauvinistic because they want every single female to look like them because they don't have enough confidence to be better fit in figures. These obesity women are jealous of fit,normal sized women because they are lucky to not be an over size. If these Dove women were regular sized they wouldn't be campaigning with Dove flaunting how proud women should feel for being obese with cellulite.
I know people have cellulite however that can be gone through fitness not eating disorders, diet pills, and surgeries.

Answer 1

i simply can not stand the one with all the pregnant women standing around modeling their prego BODIES.i agree,i can not stand their commercials.very tasteless,just like their soap.

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

Degrading Advertisements

Answer 4

None of the Dove's Beauty Campaign women are over weight or fat. I think it can be considered sexist because they are only targeting women with their campaign, so can't really argue with you with that one. I don't see them touting that women are superior or inferior, so I don't see how they are chauvinistic. And I don't see how they are degrading, the women that are in the ads willingly do it to show the world that there is more to beauty then what has been shoved in our faces the past few years/decades(stick thin).

Where is your proof that these women are obese? I'm looking at their pictures right now, and I don't see one fat *** amongst them. If you want to see what obese really is, I can always take a picture of my fat, lumpy *** and send it to you, and then you can compare it to the women in this ad and see for your self that they are not, in fact, obese. I don't even think any of them can be considered in the over weight range. They are healthy and beautiful, a lot more beautiful then the women that are in ads for other beauty products. The reason WHY they are doing the ads is because they are normal size, and they want to show what normal size really is. I would love to be "fat" like any of those six women.

And where did they ever say that they want every single woman to look like them? They are just telling women to love yourself the way you are, not telling them to love yourselves only when you look like us.

Answer 5

yeah those adds are cheesy. I mean the first thing I noticed when those adds came out is that yeah the women are shall we say voluptous. BUT if you look at the magazine adds at least you can tell they are really airbrushed . I have seen overweight people naked. I hate to admit it but I have more pound right now than I would like myself. They and I both have stretch marks. I don't see any stretch marks on those women. so how is it that it's "real beauty" ? and shouldn't self confindence come from knowing that one is smart, or, kind , or funny or successfull at work, and not because of possession of unattainable stretch mark free skin the folks at dove are promising us if we buy their soap.

Answer 6

Are you kidding me? If you think being half-naked in an ad campaign is degrading or sexist, then you're sexist yourself. A woman's body is nothing to be ashamed of, no matter what it looks like. That was the point. Not everyone can be tight and toned, and yes, obesity is unhealthy, but having a few extra pounds isn't. The point of the ad campaign was to teach women to love their bodies, not spend their whole lives in the gym striving for something they'll never achieve.

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Answer 8

I couldn't disagree with you more. The Dove ads are to make every woman love the body she's in.

Answer 9

You're clearly missing the entire point of the Dove ads. The point is: women do not have to be perfect in order to love themselves. Women do not have to fit YOUR IDEAL of being fit and beautiful in order for them to feel as if they matter and are good enough.

I think the Dove ads are liberating, and it's a shame you, as a person, can't even see the message. Maybe you need to look inward more and judge others less.

Answer 10

This is an irrelevant cheap shot....here's a simple solution:if it's on TV, change the channel, if its in a magazine, turn the page. beauty comes in every shape and size, but the most beautiful thing is being happy and confident in who you are.

Answer 11

I wonder if you'll still have that opinion in 15 years time after 3 kids.
I doubt it.