Egluntyne Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Have a look at this. http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/ Thought provoking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Thanks for posting this Egluntine! When I saw those ads with real women in, I kept meaning to look at their website, but just forgot (busy tube passages aren't the best places to write 'to do lists'!) The short film clip is very telling - will delve further later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aqualiv Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Very good I wish I was shown it as a teenager Olivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I have heard about this campaign and think its a great idea - positive body image at long last - it has been a while coming!! Cant see the film though I only get the sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 I think most of us would be delighted to look like the unreconstructed girl, with her fresh unadulterated beauty. Its no wonder so many girls have such a distorted view of their own lovliness when faced with this kind of thing everytime they open a magazine. That complete twerp Victoria Beckham has a great deal to answer for. She, to me epitomises everything that causes girls to go down the anorexia route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Buffie posted a link to this but I didn't have time to watch it and then I couldn't find it again. Very thought provoking - I hope the message gets through to youngsters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 WOW Thank you Egluntine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamsin Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 I have heard about this campaign and think its a great idea - positive body image at long last - it has been a while coming!! Cant see the film though I only get the sound! same hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looney Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Excellent film, (I got the film but not the sound!) It is about time that people were allowed to feel good for just being themselves and not feel the pressure to look like a picture-perfect model when the truth is that models don't look like the pictures we see either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xraylady Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Scroll down the page & watch the "listen to the voices of little girls" ad also. I first saw this at a very rowdy SuperBowl party here in the States, last January. The ads broadcast during Superbowl are watched as much as the football game itself. When this came on, everyone stopped & watched in silence. Some of the guys made comments like "that was real good", but ALL the women completley got it - and the conversation shifted. Commercial spots during SuperBowl are very expensive, but this is one way hearts & minds can be changed, and young girls lives can be saved. The extremes of eating disorder flow so easily from the comments of the girls in this ad - watch it, but have a hankie close by. Kudos to Dove for taking this on. (Of course it doesnt hurt their sales either.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Scroll down the page & watch the "listen to the voices of little girls" ad also. Sarah - I can't find anything Where is it? (probably just me ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xraylady Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 top tool bar thingy 'inside the campaign' click on that & then scroll down to bottom of page etc. silly you for not reading my mind properly. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 Both films are very good! It is worrying that thoughts which not too many years ago would be exclusive to those of 12 years and above are now so prevalent in girls so young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 How astonishing!!! This was in the Daily Mail today!! (Only just read it ....9.47pm!!) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=415141&in_page_id=1879 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
