Dove: The Onslaught of Beauty Imagery :

" Onslaught " is the follow-up video to the award-winning advertising campaign Evolution .

"Talk to your daughter before the beauty industry does"

Some people are critical of Dove's advertising campaigns - claiming that Dove is only pretending to care. They preach about the effects of beauty product advertising - while advertising beauty products.

I prefer to look at it a different way:

Dove sells products - and like every merchant selling products - it advertises. That's called business and it's why many of us have jobs and earn money.

Would that all television advertising campaigns were as thought-provoking as this. I prefer advertising with a social conscience rather than advertising that is nothing but offensive flat-out lies.

However - I don't kid myself that businesses are non-profit organizations out to save the world.

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