Women: Do You Take The Message To Heart?

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

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This video by Dove is incredibly well done imo and makes a powerful statement about how at some point it seems like women (not all, but a great deal) for some reason stop seeing themselves as beautiful or not caring necessarily about how they looked like they did as a kid.

I wonder, do you girls (and guys I guess, but tbh it's not nearly as big a problem with guys as it is for women, studies show men tend to think they are more attractive than they are lol) do the same thing? Do you shy away from a camera because you're so concerned you don't look good or something silly? I mean, come on, the only truly ugly women are those who are shallow, selfish, and small minded (same with ugly men).

I shy from the camera, but this makes me think at least a little differently about it

I shy from the camera and this doesn't really make me think differently

I never shy away from the camera, but this did make me think about it

I never shy away from the camera and this didn't really make me think about it

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+1 y

Too many of you girls are too damn critical of yourselves and insecure basically, Start realizing you're all fine. No reason to think so negatively of yourselves and your appearances.

[Winteredrose5162]

I don't shy away from the camera and yes there are quite a few bag pictures of me, especially since I make silly faces all the time or people sneak attack me in pictures. I don't care though, so what if I look bad! They will be all good memories when I'm old. Character is more important than looking perfect to me. As for the dove commercial, it doesn't really change how I feel. Sure they edited her a lot but I know girls who look beyond picture perfect and never edit their pictures. I know this because sometimes I take the pictures. So yes, there will always be girls who look a thousand times better than me but it doesn't bother me and I won't shy away from the camera because I'm not perfect.

[lumos]

I don't think I'm ugly, but neither am I pretty. I'm average, and I absolutely hate having my picture taken. I'm not photogenic at all, so behind every decent picture of me, there are hundreds where I look absolutely horrible haha. I always make sure to pull a silly face (so that the ugliness is on purpose which is more funny than horrible), or I make sure I'm wearing sunglasses or somehow covering up my face another way. I don't know, I'm just not comfortable in front of cameras. I like being behind them a lot more. I answered B.

[Katy16]

Tbh yes, I do. lol It's just that if it goes online or something I wanna look awesome and I don't feel like I do a lot of times, specifically in pictures. Like I'll honestly take 30+ pics just to get one I think is "good enough" to go online. It's not that I don't think I'm pretty/beautiful, it's just...idk really... lol

[menina]

I agree with you. It's well done and easy to understand imo. But, I choose B. It's something that will never change. I always been like this and I always will be.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

Well same to the other girl, stop being silly about pics lol

[menina]

I'm not being silly lol I'm being honest

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

But why? What's wrong with being proud of yourself in a pic? Don't be insecure :O

[menina]

There's nothing wrong with it. I just don't like to see myself because I know that I don't look good.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

And that's what's wrong with it. You think negatively about yourself :\

[menina]

I'm not going to tell that I look good if I don't feel it.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

But that's the problem. It's a good bet you do look good and it's your own insecurities that make you feel like you aren't. That's kinda the message of the video.

[menina]

Thanks :) I will try to change the way I think (even though it's hard)

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

I know it's hard lol. We all try and improve our own negative thoughts on ourselves. But just keep thinking positively about yourself. In due time, you'll truly believe that way about yourself :)

[menina]

Thanks :) That's true and I hope so.

[peace-love-couture]

It's intense but the women they chose are decent looking. Not everyone is exaggerating their flaws

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

Most women are though. I'll see if I can find that psychological study again, but it basically said women were way more critical about their looks than they needed to be. Hell, Dove did a commercial based on that study (but less scientific).

[peace-love-couture]

If beauty was oh so common, we wouldn't be obsessed with it...most women are average and there's nothing wrong with that. But I think they need to be realistic in that beauty is valued moreso than being average

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

Average is still pretty attractive.

[peace-love-couture]

ok whatever. I didn't realize you only wanted to hear certain types of responses

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

I never said that lol. But it's pretty silly to consider people even just average as unattractive. What is unattractive about average? Especially since true beauty isn't even physical (physical ALWAYS fades, no exceptions).

There's no reason to perpetuate insecure mindset.

[peace-love-couture]

When did I say average means unattractive? Uh, never

And beauty is physical. people can talk nonsense about it being on the inside but most people don't give 2 f***s about what's on the inside if what's on the outside is ugly or if there is someone else who is better on the outside

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

You're mighty cynical hmm.

[peace-love-couture]

not really

[lauramor]

B, its jsut something I don't seem to be albe to change haha

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

Stop that :|

[lauramor]

what?

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

being silly about pics. Probably look good in all of em :P

[lauramor]

how would you know haha?

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

Most women look good lol. They just think they don't for some silly reason or another.

[abundantlyrich]

yes, I'm very critical about myself