Interesting thought of the day...

So I thought this was pretty interesting. I randomly came across this video through a blog I follow and checked out what it was all about. Very interesting, Dove is doing a Campaign for Real Beauty.

The video that first caught my interest was this one:


The video is very impacting and shows our twisted society, yet I can't help but see that Dove is also promoting their new products with their campaign. It's great but really, read this portion I snagged from here (below if my snippet, the full article at the dove site is there).

The new phase of the campaign tackles the issue of body image and encourages women to Stand Firm to Celebrate Their Curves. The campaign helps support the new Dove firming products collection with messages provoking women to challenge beauty stereotypes: “Let’s face it, firming the thighs of a size 2 supermodel is no challenge” and “New Dove Firming. As tested on real curves.”

So Dove is also pushing a product to help firm those thighs like society needs them to be. It's not so bad and I think the campaign is neat and really does display our sickening idea of beauty.

It's like donating to charities and foundations at your local market. For example, Ben and I go to the store maybe once or twice a week for work snacks. We get hit up almost every time to donate to something or other. Safeway isn't an angel for promoting the donations, you know they are making a buck on the side off your donation. Maybe that's a little skeptical. I do on the other hand think that it's great that these foundations have found a stronger way to guilt the general public into donating. ;)

Anyway, that's my rant for today. Enjoy the films. The next one is hilarious... a parody of the first film.