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Daughters: a film from Dove

By raincoaster

Now, it must be admitted that this comes to us from the conglomerate responsible for not a few of those frivolous products used as weapons in the gender and peer pressure wars. Nonetheless, it rocketh, so it gets posted.









8 Responses to “Daughters: a film from Dove”




  1. J Says:

    Sometimes, Dove doesn’t get it. Like by putting out a firming creme that doesn’t work (it’b been pretty much documented that none of them work), and parading women around in their underwear and saying, see? We get it. These are everyday women. Did any of the women have anything to do with the creme? I don’t think so. I think that products like that go a long way toward creating the horrid self images of women that we see in films like this one.

    This film, though, they got it with this one. It’s moving and hits the nail on the head.

    I wish those in charge at Dove saw the hypocrisy of what they say vs. what they do.




  2. raincoaster Says:

    I think the more comments like that they read, the closer they’ll get to realization and change.




  3. dgm Says:

    The reality is that things have a better chance of changing for our daughters not by companies creating public service announcements but when adult women, especially those with daughters, themselves stop obsessing about losing weight or getting boobs or botox. You think your daughters don’t pick up on that? Guess again. It is one thing for a woman to want to take care of yourself, stay fit, wash her hair. It is quite another to go to extremes to erase every sign of a wrinkle or to allow oneself to be cut up and have the fat sucked out. Those are powerful messages to send your daughters.

    And now I shall step down from my soapbox.




  4. Glinda Says:

    It’s an odd circle, isn’t it? The companies make the stuff, the women buy it, the daughters see it, the company pretends it cares about the effect of the product. If they truly cared, would they still make it?




  5. Lisa Says:

    That actually brought tears to my eyes. It’s really well-done.

    On the other hand, the idea of going to a mother-daughter workshop sponsored by Unilever (makers of Axe!) gives me the creeps.




  6. class-factotum Says:

    The sad thing is that every one of those girls is lovely.




  7. Lilly Munster Says:

    I think this obsession on what medically is an “unhealthy” appearance (bone thin with artificial breasts, ie. foreign objects in ones body), starts from the media and the cult of celebrity. Why is someone, whose profession is to entertain us so important? What’s missing from our youths lives that they hate themselves because they don’t appear a certain fake way? Although it is normal for a young person to worry about having friends and fitting in (to a point), they have to be secure enough not to follow some “pinhead” in school or the media.
    I feel sorry for teens now. They obsess instead of enjoy life and don’t seem to value their own judgement or worth.




  8. raincoaster Says:

    I think part of it is that there is an urge to have someone tell you what to do, how to look, etc, to make decisions for you and have a breather from having to think for yourself all the time. It’s trying. It’s very difficult and exhausting to think for yourself, so the human species has invented fashion, to tell us what to wear, and unattainable body image, to give us something to occupy our minds instead of concentrating on the existential dilemma. Heavy, but true. Also, the celebrity gossip industry, of which I am a part, arose from our need to worship something, ANYTHING, and also from our need to talk about other people; our society is very isolating, so the only people we can ALL discuss are celebrities. We need them, or we’d have nothing to talk about.












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