Just as I was starting to feel a little better about Al Thompson because
of these Dove Self-Esteem campaign PSA's I was again disappointed by the
nasty sizism/fataphobia satire piece that equates fatness with ugliness
and gives permission to call a large man "lardo" on a billboard that Al
perpetuates by saying that the third link is a "good Friday laugh." So
now Al's columns support racism AND sizism? Is this coming out of Fox
(Pseudo) News or The Poynter Institute?! Soooo sad any day of the week!
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From: Poynter Institute [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 6:09 AM
To: E. K. Daufin
Subject: Al's Morning Meeting - Friday Edition: Warnings About Recycled
Recalls
Poynter online
Al's Morning Meeting
Updated, Oct. 5, 2007
Taking on the Beauty Industry
Dove is once again "taking on the beauty industry" with another
advertisement that urges parents to talk to their daughters before the
beauty industry starts sending them the wrong messages. In its first
salvo last year, Dove used the power of interview video viraling for its
video "Evolution," which chalked up 12 million views
on YouTube alone.
Click here to see Dove's "Evolution" video
(http://www.dailymotion.com/related/5240606/video/xiax5_pubdoveevolution
_ads
Click here to see Dove's new "Onslaught" video
(http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34boe_dove-onslaught_ads
Advertising Age says (http://adage.com/article?article_id=120886)
Dove's "Onslaught" features a close-up of a cute red-haired preteen
girl to musical refrains of "Here it comes" from U.K. group Simian's
"La Breeze," followed by a barrage of beauty-industry images and ads
featuring booty-shaking lingerie models, cheesy direct-response-style
pitches promising cosmetic miracles, scenes of plastic surgery,
time-lapse effects of yo-yo dieting and bulimia, all leading up to the
tagline: "Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does."
I would love to hear what teens have to say about these ads.
If you need a Friday laugh, here is a parody of Dove's "Evolution"
video
(http://www.dailymotion.com/related/5240606/video/xssjn_slob-evolution_a
ds)
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