Beauty

I recently watched that video that Dove put out that is passing around about being our own worst critics. (If you haven't seen it, read this article and watch the video). And while I love the idea of the video, I also agree with this woman's point about it. We shouldn't be only looking at fairly traditionally beautiful women and saying they are beautiful, and we shouldn't be only focusing on beauty as our main goal in life. Granted.... we also have to consider that Dove is a beauty product company, so ..... it is reasonable for them to be focusing on beauty as a goal. I also think that sometimes people take things way out of perspective.

Related to how women are prized for their looks, I want to discuss the Obama comment about "the best looking" Attorney General. I personally believe that that shows something GREAT about our government. It doesn't come off sounding as if he is praising only her looks, it comes off as if they are friends and have a good relationship (not a sexual relationship). I think we need to understand that these people are people, and that sometimes their lives don't ONLY exist in the camera's eyes. Maybe Obama and his wife often have Kamala Harris over for dinner and are friends with her, or maybe they became friends when randomly sitting next to each other at a speech and one of them commented on the fact that the speaker's pants were tucked into her socks and they both shared a small laugh, blooming a friendship from common experiences of working/living the government. However, I also understand people's points.

I think we need to take these things with a slight skepticism, but sometimes we need to look at the other side of them, and understand that everyone is not OUT TO GET THE FEMALES OF THE WORLD, but really... just living their lives, or trying to sell a product. I think these things both have good sides even if they aren't perfect, and we shouldn't deride people for trying to help with the feminist agenda if they don't do it perfectly, at least they are doing SOMETHING, a lot of people aren't even trying!