So it's a commercial but it has a really awesome message 
Really? Seems to just be reinforcing traditional stereotypes of beauty to me.
Not the part about stereotypical beauty, the part where it turns out that most people are much more concered about their looks than they should be and that the rest of the world looks at us in a much better then we do.
Hehe... I could tell that was a Dove ad after they got to the midpoint. They've been doing this campaign for years. Honestly, I think they've done a pretty good job as a Big Name Company; they're one of the few beauty/hygiene companies out there that aren't beating the "You aren't pretty enough. Buy our products, and everyone will like you!" message into folks heads.
Also, I'm pretty sure the point they were trying to express was "you are your own toughest critic," and "you don't need to change how you look". And sure, when you strip away the trappings of the ad, it was about a dark-haired, handsome, and sensitive/artsy man telling a set of ladies they were beautiful... still using the promise of romance to sell a product. But the women they featured weren't all sanded-down and airbrushed and Hollywood Beautiful; they were good looking, average women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and age groups.
There's a pretty deeply-entrenched culture that tells us to go style our hair, paint our face, mask our smell, and shave our hair so we can become people worthy of love. And though this certainly isn't stripping away all that baggage in one fell swoop, I think it's at least a move in the right direction. With progress, you've got to start somewhere.
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