Both of my ads were a little boring, so I'll just talk about the ads as a collective whole.
Argh, it really bothers me how sexed up and cracked out the women in ads look. I'm sick of seeing rail-thin women everywhere and I'm sick of feeling that my own self-esteem (which I worked hard to develop) isn't valid. I'm from a mostly German gene pool: I've got big bones, wide hips and a generally bigger build than a lot of the women I know, and I really don't mind being this way. Unfortunately, the women in magazines seem like they're trying to say that I shouldn't be okay with who I am and I think that's sort of sick. This sort of thing triggers eating disorders in even very young girls and I think it sends very harmful messages.
Women, big and small alike, can be beautiful and I don't understand why the media can't sell that idea just as well as they can anything else.
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