Not OT: The Dove Soap "Real Women" ad campaign

Tom_Demerly · July 21, 2005, 8:37pm

Have you guys seen this? I think it is absolutely, 100% awesome. Seriously. It is super cool.

Perhaps one of the things that is most roubling and bothersome about some athletes (myself included sometimes) is this whole body-image thing. The constant notion that we are not thin enough to put on race clothes, not tan enough, not buff enough.

I looked at this website after seeing a story about the campaign on CNN.com and seeing a TV commercial.

First off, the featured women- average “down the middle” women off the street of America, are pretty much all adorable.

Secondly, I like things like this that re-write what is supposed to be our concept of what beauty “should be”. Check it out, it is really quite nice:

http://www.dove.com/default.asp

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

You’ll have to scroll down a trifle to the video news section:

http://www.cnn.com/

swmrdrn · July 21, 2005, 8:45pm

Tom,

I typically agree with you but not this time. I was at Hollwood & Highland last night for a charity event and they have this billboards all over the place. I’m sorry but most of the women in them are simply fat. I think that this supports the image that being fat is normal. Being fat is not any more normal than being anorexic. People need to accept responsibility for there body and what they put into it. These ads undermine that teaching.

Tom_Demerly · July 21, 2005, 8:48pm

I thought the Stacy girl highlighted in the photo I copied into my thread is adorable.

weak · July 21, 2005, 8:48pm

You’ve got to much time on your hands. What are you doing on Dove’s website anyway, looking for moisturizer or just something to soften up your hands? Seriously you find some of the strangest things but they’re definately entertaining.

Tom_Demerly · July 21, 2005, 8:49pm

Sometimes other people point these things out to me, and I do read several news sources and media outlets every day. It is part of the daily intelligence dump.

zakk · July 21, 2005, 8:54pm

Beauty is a personal thing. Some of those girls are cute, some a sticks, and yes some are fat.

Find someone/thing that makes you happy. the end.

AndyPants · July 21, 2005, 8:57pm

Well, the women they have on the website are not fat. Puh-lease.

Sure they could stand to lose 5-10lbs, but so could most of North America (and then some). Me included.

swmrdrn · July 21, 2005, 8:58pm

Stacy is fine and a few of them are not fat but damn if they didn’t put a HUGE billboard up of the fat one.

Tom_Demerly · July 21, 2005, 9:00pm

Stacy’s a fox.

CCF · July 21, 2005, 9:00pm

If Stacy is fat, then we all need to reaccess out concept of body image.

-Colin

weak · July 21, 2005, 9:01pm

I like the stuff you post I just had a hard time picturing you tracking it down. You don’t strike me as the type of guy that pays much attention to the kind of soap you have in the bathroom, but then again you do own a cat I still gotta go against you on this one. Besides what’s up with that big ass tat on the one chicks leg.

Ze_Gopha · July 21, 2005, 9:03pm

There is also a difference between “curves” and “ripples.”.

OCTriGeek · July 21, 2005, 9:05pm

Fat girls have more washable surface, therefore need and use more soap per shower - smart marketing by Dove.

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swmrdrn · July 21, 2005, 9:06pm

I agree Stacy is not fat but Julie is:

Edit: Imagine this 40 feet tall… nuf said.

Chest_Rockwell · July 21, 2005, 9:07pm

That Stacy babe reminds me of my wife. Yowza!

weak · July 21, 2005, 9:08pm

I almost choked on my water when I read that one.

Mike_Dick · July 21, 2005, 9:09pm

These are as real women as slim women.

Just a ploy to sell products to fat women.

Steel is real, fat women are real. Therefore, Alu is artificial, Ti is artificial, slim women are artificial - what a lot of bollocks.

Chuck_M · July 21, 2005, 9:10pm

I saw the girls on the Today show this week. Thought they all looked like prety average girls. All seemed very comfortable and confident with themselves, which to me is the key to attractivness.

And it’s not like it’s every womans job to be attractive to me.

Tom_Demerly · July 21, 2005, 9:14pm

dude, this girl is NOT fat, she is actually quite attractive. Come on man- we are talking *real world *here. If I saw this girl and wasn’t dating anyone I would feel she is attractive.

This is a purposely unflattering pose. Almost any other pose and she would look different by far.

I just don’t think she is fat. And therein lies the point of me posting this entire thread. I think some of our socially accepted concepts of what fat is are totally out of whack.

Mike_Dick · July 21, 2005, 9:14pm

<<very comfortable and confident with themselves, which to me is the key to attractivness.>>

Probably because you don’t hit it with the chicks.