Thursday, October 19, 2006

True Beauty




Perhaps you've seen ads from Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty. I'm glad that the problem of society's view of beauty is being recognized as it is---a problem. But I'm afraid that the "answer" of "self esteem" proposed by Dove is not going to help matters. It is not until human life is valued and each life seen as an intricately designed creation of God, that the definition of beauty will be effectively altered.

Just the same, a couple of Dove's short movies have been excellent. Spunkyhomeschool highlighted Dove's interviews with girls regarding their perception of beauty, and Girl Talk has recently brought up Dove's film of a modeling shoot. They're both eye-openers.

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