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Dove's new body-shaped bottles are being harshly mocked online
Toronto Sun ^ | May 9, 2017 | Postmedia Network

Posted on 05/09/2017 10:47:57 AM PDT by rickmichaels

This is it. Body-positive marketing finally has gone too far.

Dove, the friendly soap company known for preaching self-love and diversity through advertisements featuring real women instead of models, recently unveiled a new line of limited edition body washes in a variety of body-shaped bottles.

That's right, precious little snowflakes, you can now have a body wash bottle that reflects the shape of your body.

According to Dove's website, the limited edition body washes aim to celebrate beauty diversity.

"From curvaceous to slender, tall to petite, and whatever your skin colour, shoe size or hair type, beauty comes in a million different shapes and sizes," the site reads. "Our six exclusive bottle designs represent this diversity: just like women, we wanted to show that our iconic bottle can come in all shapes and sizes, too."

But critics weren't buying the female empowerment shtick this time.

"@Dove Is this real? I don't care what the bottle looks like, I care if the product inside works," said one Twitter user.

"I don't want fat representation in soap bottle form. I'd prefer it in the form of fat people not being systematically treated poorly," said another.

I don't understand Dove for your body type? Do you...wear the bottle?

— Becca (@tigerpantss) May 8, 2017 "I don't understand Dove for your body type? Do you...wear the bottle," added another user.

I found the bottle shape that correlates most closely with my body. Thanks @Dove! pic.twitter.com/ghVyGmF0zY

— Jack Thunder, M.D. (@condiricenbeans) May 9, 2017 thanks Dove but I already have a body wash that matches my natural curves :) pic.twitter.com/IIkKAn0LjQ

— Tim Federle (@TimFederle) May 8, 2017 @Dove Is this real? I don't care what the bottle looks like, I care if the product inside works. https://t.co/kKGZTmh1gd

— Allison Churchill (@Aloe9678) May 8, 2017 i don’t want fat representation in soap bottle form. i’d prefer it in the form of fat people not being systematically treated poorly. https://t.co/NfdEP6lXPA

— nicolle (@rogueclown) May 8, 2017 I just want to wash, man. Why does everything gotta be so damn difficult? https://t.co/Nonxkxe6BP

— Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) May 8, 2017 .@Dove matches its new body wash bottles to your body type pic.twitter.com/zzxy21DYuH

— chekov's mankrik (@vrunt) May 8, 2017 @FastCompany @Dove I will destroy you all. pic.twitter.com/zliWvLhlaT

— Mary Murphy (@FastFM) May 8, 2017

Video: "Now an iconic Dove product comes in all shapes and sizes too. Discover how we reaffirmed our commitment to beauty confidence with 6 exclusive bottles, that celebrate bodies of all shapes and sizes."


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1 posted on 05/09/2017 10:47:57 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

“...at a medium pace”.


2 posted on 05/09/2017 10:49:08 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: rickmichaels

All of the bottles are symmetrical. They’re microagressing against amputees and the naturally lopsided.


3 posted on 05/09/2017 10:51:40 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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To: rickmichaels

None of them have a beer gut. I’m going to sue.


4 posted on 05/09/2017 10:51:54 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: rickmichaels

...becoming the first gift for “frenemies.”


5 posted on 05/09/2017 10:52:02 AM PDT by dangus
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To: rickmichaels

Is #3 of #7 for the woman with the big hips/small breasts? (pear-shaped body)


6 posted on 05/09/2017 10:52:54 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: rickmichaels

Puke.


7 posted on 05/09/2017 10:53:43 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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You an bet NOBODY is going to buy the little fat one.


8 posted on 05/09/2017 10:54:17 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: KarlInOhio

“what hump?”


9 posted on 05/09/2017 10:54:43 AM PDT by dangus
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To: rickmichaels

I wonder how long this Obama induced PC sht madness will go on. I posted an article yesterday about the MTV awards and how they awarded Emma Stone a “genderless acting award”. What the hell does that even mean “genderless”? Does it mean she doesn’t have a vagina or genitals of any kind? And then she gives this speech thanking her co-star, who she described as a “gender non-binary identifying actor”..Say what?? Can someone please bitch slap this people upside the head ASAP?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3551086/posts


10 posted on 05/09/2017 10:56:08 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: rickmichaels

absolutely done buying dove products after their commercials featuring queers


11 posted on 05/09/2017 10:56:46 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: rickmichaels

Where’s the 55 gallon drum?


12 posted on 05/09/2017 10:57:11 AM PDT by toast
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All of the bottles are white. That’s racist. Where is the diversity?


13 posted on 05/09/2017 10:57:14 AM PDT by rickmichaels (I shouldn't have to press 1 for English)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Just power it on through, Dove.

Add cute nicknames for each body-type bottle you sell.

Now the pear-shaped bottle, that's gotta be Badonka-Dove.

14 posted on 05/09/2017 10:58:09 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: rickmichaels

That’s right, precious little snowflakes, you can now have a body wash bottle that reflects the shape of your body.
____________________________________________

And yet - no one but a precious little snowflake could give a care what shape a bottle of soap looks like.

Although I did notice all those bottles are WHITE!

Therefore - Dove is Raciss!


15 posted on 05/09/2017 10:58:26 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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It’s pretty well known that only white people use soap.


16 posted on 05/09/2017 11:00:21 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: rickmichaels

Long ago, I used Head and Shoulders shampoo. I’d been using it since I was a kid. There was only one version. Then they stopped selling the original, and replaced it with a choice of “for Oily Hair” and “for Dry Hair”. I have normal hair. I found another brand of shampoo.


17 posted on 05/09/2017 11:02:25 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: KarlInOhio

All those bottles are white—I am also micro-aggressed by this great outrage. Luckily I was within staggering range of my fainting couch. I’ll be in my safe space cowering, yearning for the day when only obese disabled African American lesbians are allowed to use body wash for social justice.

FReegards


18 posted on 05/09/2017 11:03:12 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: rickmichaels

I don’t see any tall fat bottles for me :)


19 posted on 05/09/2017 11:03:23 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Cowboy,

Just store it upside down.

Dove could double their effect by using those large lids like on catsup so you can store up or down (self designate your body shape).


20 posted on 05/09/2017 11:03:43 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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