and so does poundy, who penned a rebuttal to the lame asses at the sun-times who think the ads are ugly, offensive and gross.
fuck you, asshats.
(poundy's rebuttal is more articulate than that but you get my drift.)
Thursday, August 04, 2005
dove: i like the ads
and so does poundy, who penned a rebuttal to the lame asses at the sun-times who think the ads are ugly, offensive and gross.
fuck you, asshats.
(poundy's rebuttal is more articulate than that but you get my drift.)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
12 comments:
Great article! Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, good for her.
I suppose that one benefit of the ads is that they're sure forcing a lot of assholes to come out of the closet and identify themselves.
I like that ad, too.
speaking as one man who doesn't think the twiggy model is attractive.
There is a certain percentage of men who are physically repulsed by women they do not find attractive. You know, they don't even want to be in the same building, they act like they are insulted just to see an woman they're not attracted to.
It took me a long time to figure out what was going on. Here's my theory; these dudes have either been socialzed to (or haven't yet been socialized from) imagining themselves having sex with every single woman they see. Yes. Remember, males sexuality is very sensitive to visual stimuli.
So when they see someone they are attracted to, they imagine what the sex would be like. If they see someone they are not attracted to, they imagine what the sex would be like.
The recoil reaction? It might be an immediate response to their imagined sex, but my instinct is that they are actually trying to condition themselves to disregard the mental image; to STOP thinking about sex with that woman.
You can test this theory on your male friends; play a discreet game of 'that's your girlfriend' with him, and assign him to a woman who to whom you know he is not attracted.
If he chuckles or has another reaction, you know he hasn't went immediately to imaginary sex place. However, if he reacts with disgust or laughs too hard, you know he went there.
Anyway, I believe this theory belies the hostility toward the non-supermodel dove ads.
I'm positing this as a theory, not as an excuse. People are responsible for their own thoughts, words, actions, and imaginations. If a man is offended because he sees an unattracted woman, it's his problem. He is not a victim of the unattractive woman, he's a victim of his own imagination.
You are responsible for your own mental images.
And my bottom is as clean as a whistle.
jp, i think you win this new years eve contest too.
oh yah? Is there a cash prize?
Hmmm...I think you may have something(s) there, JP, but I wouldn't use the word "offended."
We are responsible for our own mental images, but we also have the right to them.
I have the right to feel attraction to those women I find attractive...a woman has the right to feel attraction to someone she feels attracted to.
There's a saying that there's a lid for every pot.
A-non
but does roeper (and other men like him) have a 'right' to that smashing sense of entitlement that says 'women owe me my pleasure'?
yes, we all are attracted to whom we are attracted to but i think that we all have to own how problematic our desires sometimes are.
zeke, the world you envision is a scary one.
while we're foraging for sustenance at least my skin will be nice and taut. (heh)
yeah, again, roeper has the freedom of the press/opinion behind him. but on a deeper, ideological level, his opinion is full of shit.
I first noticed those ads a few months back in a british ladymag, and thought then abour doing a post about how much more accepting and wonderful those Euro advertisers were. Then I forgot, and abotu two days later I started to see the ads here. Shortly after that, I noticed that all of the adds of the individual women that were plastering bus shelters in my neighborhood were defaced with " Type II diabetes!" All of them. Someone actually went around taking their anti-fat paranoia on images of not-fat-but-not-Paris-Hilton-thin women in bus shelters. I was rather shocked. Then again, I live in manhattan. UWS no less.Sad.
Post a Comment