{"id":290,"date":"2005-10-06T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=290"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"dove-and-real-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2005\/10\/06\/dove-and-real-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Dove and Real Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This past year or so Dove has been promoting their “get real for women” campaign where they are trying to get across to women and more importantly to young girls that the real woman image is not one of a skinny minny walking down a runway but a healthy female with a healthy self esteem. Their commercials are showing women of all ages, all sizes and all races.<\/p>\n

Today I was watching a tv news program where men were up in arms trying to get other men to sign petitions to have these ads removed off the media because this is not what real women look like. Unbeknownst to some of these men the camera men showed their wives, their mothers, their sisters and daughters and how funny it was to see their faces when the news show showed them that the female members of their families were indeed “real” and not anything like the women they felt they wanted to see portrayed. There was some crow pie being swallowed at that point.<\/p>\n

I had to wonder how many men met their womenfolk that night with a chagrined and apologetic look on their faces. I had to also wonder how many of these women met their men with the proverbial rolling pin in their hands.<\/p>\n

The other day I asked my husband why it was when we first met and I was toothpick thin he said he loved me that way then years later when I had gained a substantial amount of weight he still said he loved me that way…now I am in between and he still says the same thing.. I asked which time was it that he had lied to me.. at the beginning, in the middle or at the end (now) and he said don’t you get it yet? It’s you I love not the size you are.<\/p>\n

Guess he won’t be facing a rolling pin anytime soon. Do any of you think Dove is being untrue to their portrayal of what a real woman looks like?<\/p>\n

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