I get it, they are CSLF (Could Stand to Lose a Few), and they are sparing us the BFPW's (Big Fat Pie Wagons).
Posted on 08/04/2005 2:46:04 PM PDT by Airborne1986
Summer of Dove Are the women in the company’s new ad campaign too big to sell beauty products, or have our minds gotten too small?
Newsweek Updated: 3:13 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2005 Aug. 3 - Even if you haven’t seen Dove’s "Campaign for Real Beauty," you’ve probably heard about it. The ads promote a new line of skin-firming creams and feature six "regular" women of varying sizes and ethnicities cheerfully posing in plain white underwear. The curvy nonmodel models were introduced by Dove in June, but newspapers across the country are still simmering with dueling diatribes about Dove's selection of women who are neither skinny nor camouflaged in sexy clothes. Everyone seems to have an opinion about whether the women are a revolutionary rejection of the superthin media ideal, or just nice girls who are too chubby to be up on billboards wearing next to nothing.
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There is a surprising amount of hostility in some reactions to the ads. Lucio Guerrero, a staff reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times who was apparently offended by the sight of the ads on his commute, wrote on July 19: "Really, the only time I want to see a thigh that big is in a bucket with bread crumbs on it."
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Yep, that looks normal.
Dove-- Even if you don't sweat much for a fat girl.
Remember that the fashion industry is dominated by Gay men, hence the emphasis on boyish looking women.
I think they all look pretty great. When I touch a woman I enjoy a bit of softness and curve, rather than something that feels like a 14 year old boy's frame. But then I'm weird (evidently).
Count me in. If I wanted someone who looked like a little boy, I'd be a fashion designer.
Right on. Well said.
Hehehe...if only we were in charge of the ad agencies. We could have spared the world of the inanity of Paris Hilton and the like.
I get it, they are CSLF (Could Stand to Lose a Few), and they are sparing us the BFPW's (Big Fat Pie Wagons).
I think that's a good looking photo -- thanks for the post.
And it ain't no coincidence that those types are the choice models of queer fashion designers.
::shudders at thought::
ROFLMAO!!!
Somewhere out there is a marketing researcher who proudly told Dove, "You know, fat chicks spend a lot of money on beauty products and there are a lot of fat chicks out there these days..."
It's all about target markets.
They had a poster sized add for that product in the locker room of my gym. It kind of creeped me out.
Could it be because the NY Ad execs prefer young boys?
TS
Plus-sized women are beautiful. I guess the majority of FReepers prefer the skeletal, waif look.
There's way too much media push given to unrealistic body types, especially for femmes.
And not that you asked, but I prefer women who look like grown women instead of pre-adolescent boys.
Amen to that (not the 'you're weird' part)
Talk about bun cakes, my girl's got 'em.
You're thinking of someone in particular? :)
Per post #18 - the black woman, third from left - remember those old cartoons, when a pretty woman walked by and the character's eyes bugged out and fire erupted from his mouth and he ran around in circles? That's me right now.
Here are your photos, without the stretching.
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