Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me Uncomfortable… and Kind of Makes Me Angry

jazzylittledrops:

So this video started going around my facebook today, with about a dozen of my female friends sharing the link with comments like, and “Everyone needs to see this”, and “All girls should watch this,” and “This made me cry.” And I’m not trying to shame those girls! I definitely understand why they would do so. And I don’t want to be a killjoy. But as I clicked the link and started watching the video, I started to feel a slight sense of discomfort. I couldn’t put my finger on why that was, exactly, but it continued throughout the whole thing. After watching the video several more times, I have some thoughts… 

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Sunlight resting on an art student while she paints
Art Student, Jerusalem Maynard Owen Williams

Sunlight resting on an art student while she paints

Art Student, Jerusalem 
Maynard Owen Williams

"There are dreamers, and there are realists in this world. You would think the dreamers would find the dreamers, and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not, the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need a realist to keep them from getting too close to the sun, and the realists? Well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground."
Modern Family
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No more tears, my heart is dry
I don’t laugh and I don’t cry
I don’t think about you all the time
But when I do - I wonder why

One day baby, we’ll be old
Oh baby, we’ll be old
And think of all the stories that we could have told

Here I go again - the blame
The guilt, the pain, the hurt, the shame
The founding fathers of our plane
That’s stuck in heavy clouds of rain.

One day baby, we’ll be old
Oh baby, we’ll be old
And think of all the stories that we could have told

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One Day/Reckoning Song - Asaf Avidan and the Mojos
"Oh I’m, I’m just a tree
My leaves are with him
But my roots are with thee"
Weak - Asaf Avidan and the Mojos
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The flower on the rose bush
ruby velvet
single but strong
sweet and sickly potent odour
taste it on my tongue


Thick the stem that holds it straight
emerald armour
protects its gut
sunlight feeds its precious veins
straight into the mud

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