Ads of the Past

Ad #1
The first ad that talks about using tape worms as a way to lose weight is a shocking one. It says that you can eat as much food as you want and stay thin as long as your using those tapeworms. How can any that be healthy to your body. This will probably shorten your life faster. People will most likely follow this and end up dieing from a heart attack.

Ad #2
The other add with the guy blowing smoke into the girls face is also inappropriate. Teenagers are going to look at this and start smoking to try and get girls. I think the fact that it was okay for teenagers to smoke at that time period that allowed this ad to be shown. Not only that, advertising cigarettes was also allowed. Nowadays you could never see a commercial advertising cigarettes. This ad tells me that the society in America had a lot more "bad" teenagers hanging around and smoking. Today, if there was an ad on how to get girls, it would have something to do with cologne or hair gel. So that's a big difference to todays ads.

Ad#3
This ad is just plain disgusting. Assuming they mean lard is poo, then yea, that's disgusting. Obviously this ad is inappropriate. Your basically telling people to eat doodoo. This ad looks really old which tells me it was a time period when saying these type of things was ok. It also tells me that the society in America was very care free. This ad cannot be compared to any ad today.

Ad #4
This ad is somewhat inappropriate but more ironic. The doctor is supposed to tell you not to smoke yet he's smoking himself. It defiantly isn't good for doctors to have this ad going around. Again, the only reason i think it even exists is because this was back in the day.

Social Awareness Contradiction

I feel that the Dove Campaign is good because it will help show girls that they don't need to have all that extra stuff. Usually, they are already beautiful. It's good that Dove is doing what their doing because it's true that the media really does pressure girls into think they aren't pretty. Now it really surprises me that Dove is owned by that same company as Axe which has a completely different view over the situation. What Axe does is make guys believe they need to wear that cologne in order to get all the ladies. Obviously that can't be true. When i see those commercials it doesn't make me laugh or feel disgusted but i just get a "wow" reaction when i see it. I mean, girls aren't going to come running after you just because you smell good. That's not how these things work. I don't think there actually trying to be serious but just saying that it might be easier to get a date with a girl if you smell really good. But that can be debated.

And yes, a parent company should have the responsibility to make sure their sectors have the same beliefs and values. It shows that their dedicated to whichever side. With the company that owns Axe and Dove, there like a two side company. I don't think that's a very good reputation to have. So that's my opinion on this topic.

Photo Manipulation

In the media, many organizations are manipulating their photo's it's insane. The first picture show on that blog post shows how bad pictures are getting manipulated. How can anyone fall for stuff like that. The regular picture of that girl doesn't look anywhere near as thin as the photoshopped picture beside it. I don't think anyone in the world could possibly look like that. Even the picture of Jessica Simpson is bad but not to the extent of the Ralph Lauren picture. In the Jessica picture, the photo manipulation isn't as drastic. You can still notice a difference but it isn't as noticeable as the Ralph Lauren picture. I wonder how the organizations can even believe that people aren't going to notice anything weird. It's the same as me getting a picture of a lake and putting another picture of a boat on it and saying the picture was one. That's how bad these pictures have been shopped.

In the third picture, it's funny to see the difference form the first picture to the last picture. Fist they make her taller by a few inches. Then they make her a bit thinner. I don't even think any of that is necessary since she didn't even look bad in the first pic. Sometimes these magazines make a person look bad. They're trying to make them look good but they're actually making them look disgusting. So that's my opinion on photo-manipulation.