What do you think of this

09 November 2009
By: Pete

What a world we live in.

Please watch this vidoe and tell me what you think please

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=iYhCn0jf46U

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Its scary that the world we know and live in is like this and we rarely stop to think about it...
Whatever happened to beauty is in the eye of the beholder???
PP xx

# By PP | 09/11/09 15:35

Wow this is a powerful short film.
It is happening to the whole of life not just looks, it is kind of becoming artificial and unreal. None of us know whther what is around us is real or fake.
Celebrities - infamous but famous for what, a lot have no reason to be role models for our vulnerable young particularly.
It is good for whom - business out there to make money out of us all as consumers by trying to make us dissatisfied with ourselves.
A lot of media tries to help us mend that which is not actually broken and as you say Pete we are all unique.
At this very moment my boys are on computers on games that are based on fantasy and where you don't die if you crash or get shot etc.
Real being - well a lot of people do not know themselves enough to know how to be themselves and I include most of us in this - we have all been somewhat duped and as De Mello we tend to live our lives 'asleep'.
I have just started another book called 'How long is now?' by Tim Freke in which he talks about being spiritually awake, he calls it deep awake!
I am finding it very interesting and I feel fortunate to have such a mentor as yourself to guide us along our way Pete. Thanks!
Earthmother xxx

# By Earthmother | 09/11/09 18:10

Hi Pete
Have a look at the parody one as well!!
Love Shoana xx

# By Zenith | 09/11/09 18:39

I find it all very ironic that this is made by a company that has managed to make women think even more about what their armpits look like and made us think we need to moisturise them to look good. Unilever have advertised other brands in very different ways. It's all part of market segmentation. AntiPersirant is pretty much an essential within our society - there aren't many people who don't use it - if you can get people to identify the Dove brand with individuality and realness whilst promoting agressive female sexuality ( hetero I might add...) for the young un's you are onto a winner.

The parody video is great - the one where the guy turns into a slob is a bit of a hoot.

# By katfrin | 09/11/09 21:58

The use of photoshop on people is crazy, it's selling beauty that doesn't exist. It's so alien.

I did laugh at the slob parody, actually a good example of what people do to themselves and what we are trying to avoid by being here on this program. Unfortunately, the messages at the end didn't hit my sense of humor.

I have stopped buying women's magazines because they are so two faced

# By LilOleMe | 09/11/09 22:28

Very interesting, it just reinforces everything I thought about magazine shoots - a very artificial world and I don't like the message it puts out to the more gullible and vulnerable among us that everything has to be perfect. I'm glad to be with the pctv gang.

# By Annie | 09/11/09 22:32

I've been teaching this - it's like the anti-media-beauty campaign and I'm well and trully on the bandwagon. The parody one made me cry!!

# By Mandie | 10/11/09 10:25

Really powerful. The whole subject of taking beauty at face value (pardon the pun) and the beauty/fashion/media industries really make me angry - it's no wonder that woman all over are torn between being overweight and lacking self esteem because they can't measure up, or eating disorders in a vain attempt to measure up...and of course we're all trying to live up to something that isn't real.

Of course, to look at it from the other side, this is still just a very clever marketing campaign - but at least its messages are less immoral.

# By babsybabe | 10/11/09 10:57