Introduction

Alright so I made a new blog with my google account so I could use all the new features and stuff...so here's my last post from my old blog:
We wrote this essay EAP ( or something or other) Essay today in class and my prompt was something like should there be more severe restrictions on advertisement companies and how they use celebrities to sell there products when these celebs have never even used the product themselves.I started writing the essay (we had 45 min) on the basis of Yes, they should be able to have whomever they want advertise for them or else the standards for advertising will be too strict, no deodorant or power drink or wheat bread will appear better than any of the others and advertising as we know it will no longer exist. But then that as we know it really got to me. I know I've bought mascara or shampoo or this or that in hopes of looking like the celebs on the commercials yet I am always so bummed when it just doesn't look like that on me...thusfore something must be wrong with me. Right? No, something's wrong with the media, with advertising.My mom and I were in the movie theatre this weekend and an ad came on for Dove or something...I think it was lotion. I don't know...Anyway, the reason I remember it is because they had nude, older, women showing on it. They were covering themselves with their body parts, yes, but still, I cringed. I wasn't captivated by them. And my mom even said "Now that is not something I want to be looking at right now". These women were average in looks, weight, and appearance. Everyday soccer moms and grandmothers. This was reality and we all cringed with embarrassment for these women showcasing all their flaws on a widescreen nonetheless. And yet how wrong. Of us! To cringe at reality? Seriously? Have we stooped so low...I immediately caught myself and said, this is ridiculous, that's how it should be! How much better and honest about ourselves would we feel if real beauty was portrayed in advertisements not fake, doctored up images. It made and makes me mad.Needless to say, I crossed out my first two paragraphs and re-wrote my thesis. Who cares if businesses lose money because they can't sell their products under false pretenses? Is the truth not more important than the lies they're aptly feeding us?
--DISCLAIMER--
Commercial now banned in America (so I hear) for too much skin
(why don't they tell that to Victoria Secret's advertisement...).
Watch at own risk of reality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vilUhBhNnQc

Alright, I don't know if my opinion is wrong or right or where the media even should draw the line...which is a fine one, when it comes to the portrayal of too much skin and too much seductivness and too many lies. I really would love to hear your opinion...