My Thoughts on Body Image in Commercials!

After listening to the presentations in class today it made me really think about commercial's depictions of women. It is true that every commercial you see has a skinny beautiful model. That is an extremely bad influence on children especially these days when beauty is so stressed to young girls. Like we were talking about today in class, even the dove commercials that are suppose to be about not having the perfect body still have pretty women. I guess it is good for girls to see that different body types can be on TV commercials too but I don't think it is enough. On the other hand I try to put myself in the position of the buyer of the products and I know that I wouldn't want to buy a lipstick from a fat, ugly, old lady, so in a way the strategy works. A company is not going to put themselves in a position were they could lose money just so young girls don't develop eating disorders. I think that this problem will never be fixed there will always be skinny, fit, beautiful girls in commercial so maybe we need to start teaching our kids more about having self confidence.