Sex/uality Artifacts

For my second artifact, I chose a commercial advertisement from Dove and related it to the Feeling Old and Ugly? Look Again article. Even thought the article was aging and the video was not, I thought they both really related to the idea that it is important to remember that you are beautiful. In the video, a forensic science artist asked strangers questions about themselves to describe what they think they look like and while they answered he began to draw. He would then ask a different stranger that had the opportunity to meet that person to describe what they looked like. Every single person had something positive to say compared to what the person said about themselves. Once they artist was done drawing both portraits the strangers had the opportunity to view them. It was a very sad moment for those strangers because they realized that the other person described them better than they described themselves. I think this video did a great job showing that people are too judgmental about their own bodies and they are ruining their self-esteems. We need to remember how beautiful we are and I think this is a great message for those that need the reminder. This definitely relates to the article because the woman suggested that if we all take at least two minutes in our day to tell ourselves what we love about ourselves then that can create a great attitude towards the rest of our day.

I think that idea is great and that we all need to remind ourselves that we are beautiful. In today’s generation, we are so wrapped up in social media that we forget that we are beautiful too. We need to stop comparing ourselves to models or actresses that we see in tabloids or on billboards. More than likely they have been photoshopped. We are comparing ourselves to something that is not real so we judge ourselves. It is unhealthy the way we treat ourselves so I think that this advertisement was a very strong message and I applaud Dove for creating it.