Beauty Perception

I found these videos to be very inspirational. I thought this because I found it really cool how a business so involved in the popular media made it apparent that there's a problem with how the media influences individuals. They pointed out how it wasn't alright to fake beauty like that because it can have a very negative affect on the people that look up to media. I think the influence the media has over the public is crazy. People are always comparing themselves to how a person in a magazine looks, a celebrity, or movies.

I think that these videos are a really good thing for the public to see. They show a whole different aspect of the media that I think is really important for people to see. It makes you realize how big of an affect it has on people. It's starting out younger that people are starting to feel the pressure of the media. They make it look like you have to be the perfect size, have the perfect face and hair and that's not a true reality, people can't just be like that. This pressure that it puts on people can change their whole world especially if they obsess on getting that "perfect" body. Some people would do anything to get that, even put themselves at risk. When you reach that point of obsession it can be close to impossible to get yourself to see your body the same again.

As most people know that having an eating disorder is a very serious disease. I find that a lot of the people with this disorder could have been highly prevented without the media's pressures. I think that it's sick how much it can affect people. Not only are eating disorders hard for the person who has one they're hard for every one around them to deal with too. It's hard to watch some one so close do that to themselves and have no control over it. So this is why i think the concept of Dove making videos like this is so cool because it makes people realize that no one actually looks like that and you shouldn't let those fake images affect you.