OK so this advertisement is from 1969 but it still makes a point about advertising and its affect on how how society sees women in general. We must be ugly before we get the chance to curl, color, paint and primp...so this article promises to make it possible to SPEND LESS TIME UGLY. It's awful, most messages out there are awful in my opinion. They show too skinny models with bodies that look like little boys and women strive to look like this even though it is next to impossible for the average woman to ever achieve this look. And I guess I'd have to say WHY would you want to look emaciated and starving for a cheeseburger?? That model's legs above do not look natural, they look frail and unhealthy. But this is what society sees on a daily basis and has for years and this is why there is so many women and girls with incredibly low self-esteem and distorted body images and not to mention eating disorders. With all these delusional ads out there it makes it hard for society to remember that beauty comes in all sizes, colors and shapes. We should encourage our girls not to focus so much on the outside and remember that true beauty comes from inside and to me there is nothing prettier than someone happy with themselves, self-confidence beats skinny any day...
Good point on the contradiction of self-confidence making someone attractive when it's often hard to achieve because of unrealistic media images.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much the first picture you show was photoshopped. It hardly seems possible that those legs would hold up anybody's upper body, no matter how lightweight the person is. The plastic stockings she's wearing remind me of the iconic patent-leather boots that Julia Roberts wore in "Pretty Woman." I wonder if they're going for a connection like that.
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