Dove Onslaught, Revisited

I told my husband that I had posted on my blog and that he ought to read it. He hasn't of course, but before I left the house to go for a walk he said, "Whatever you do, get rid of that movie on your website...it is too negative! You dont want to be negative, you want to show the connection between your glasses and how women can look beautiful." I answered that the movie was staying, and that each one of us has to find our own personal standards for beauty, and that by God the Movie Was Staying!
As I walked, it came to me that most women probably wouldn't see the Dove message as inherently negative, rather it is illustrating a negative concept that we all live with every single day, and contains it, and tries to say "STOP the MADNESS". I heard and interview with Sarah Silverman the other day, who I think is pretty full of herself, but she was reflecting on the amount of time women spend each day thinking negative thoughts about their bodies. Cathy would probably agree that I spend more than average time obsessing about the size and shape of my body. I loathe buying clothes, and except for the obvious problems with seeing out the itty bitty window, think that wearing a bhurka would be rather liberating. I think everyone, even men, should have the option of wearing one.
In light of all of that, I don't think that the Onslaught video is all that negative. If it would make the advertising industry think for even one second about what they are doing to the American woman's psyche, it might not be such a bad thing.