Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

[kathykd2005]

Do these women seem overweight to you? Sure, some of them might. Does that make them less appealing? Imagine for a moment: you are one of these women, and your "friends" tell you to stay away from your sorority house during recruitment. I don't see anything amusing about the Dove Real Beauty Campaign, at all.

[fantASTic]

NONE of those women are overweight, according to that picture.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Do these women seem overweight to you? Sure, some of them might. Does that make them less appealing? Imagine for a moment: you are one of these women, and your "friends" tell you to stay away from your sorority house during recruitment. I don't see anything amusing about the Dove Real Beauty Campaign, at all.

It's because so few of us do think any of those women are anything other than completely attractive that makes the campaign amusing to me.

They are obviously beautiful. So Real Beauty is obvious beauty.

I didn't want to belabor this point this much really. It was just an off the cuff remark about advertising.

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

It's because so few of us do think any of those women are anything other than completely attractive that makes the campaign amusing to me.

They are obviously beautiful. So Real Beauty is obvious beauty.

I didn't want to belabor this point this much really. It was just an off the cuff remark about advertising.

Obviously beautiful? Do these women look like the ones you usually see in advertisements? They don't look like the ones I normally see in magazines or on television every night. The point is that they ARE still beautiful, regardless of what popular culture says.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Obviously beautiful? Do these women look like the ones you usually see in advertisements? They don't look like the ones I normally see in magazines or on television every night. The point is that they ARE still beautiful, regardless of what popular culture says.

I don't get the funnies either.

And no, they don't look like the girls I see when I open my Cosmo. Not at all.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

Obviously beautiful? Do these women look like the ones you usually see in advertisements? They don't look like the ones I normally see in magazines or on television every night. The point is that they ARE still beautiful, regardless of what popular culture says.

The ones I usually see in advertisements look like 13 year old Latvian orphans who haven't eaten in a month. They're pretty gross looking, if you ask me.

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The ones I usually see in advertisements look like 13 year old Latvian orphans who haven't eaten in a month. They're pretty gross looking, if you ask me.

They sure are, and so would a house full of super model-esque women, who all looked the same during recruitment. That is just too Stepford Wives for me. But hey, that's just me.

[bejazd]

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