The Psychology of Beauty-Media affects body image (Dove)

When searching the web for videos dealing with body image and the media, I stumbled across this video that shows the negative effects of the media when dealing with body image. Even though most of the footage in the video is half naked women, the video really gets a point across. Seeing the different aspects that media affects the body is astounding. From plastic surgery to diet pill ads, the media controls everyone's vision of their body. Dove intended that the audience be shocked from the raw footage and seeing how much the media is in on the way we view our bodies. Making this video shows how much women really care about their bodies and would do anything from fad diets to plastic surgery to get the way the celebrities look or just have the "normal" body. After reading some of the comments on YouTube following the video, you really understand what those women are saying from being thin is not always beautiful and having the ideal body is never really attainable because no one is perfect. Seeing half naked, skinny, and beautiful women is all over the media these days. From advertisements, commercials, and television shows, the perfect body is getting out of hand. This video has been going around the web since 2009 and even if no one sees it or even if one person does, that one person could change a generation and start to have "normal" be the best thing a girl could be. Overall, Dove did an amazing job with the concept of the video and really captured my attention.