10 Responses for "Yike."

1. D M October 27th, 2006 at 10:22 am 1

   There’s a lot of jumbled thoughts for me on this one. I can’t seem to cohere them into something proper.

   Let me just say: it takes a certain level of wisdom to seperate image from reality, and love what is real, instead of a dream. It is unfortunate that anyone suffers because they cannot live up to someone else’s dream, and good when you find yourself amongst people who accept what is.

2. Kerry G. October 27th, 2006 at 12:31 pm 2

   For some reason the freakiest thing to me is when they make her neck longer.

3. Kables October 27th, 2006 at 4:29 pm 3

   Tagged as disgusting. Nice.

4. Melissa October 27th, 2006 at 9:03 pm 4

   DM: when you reconcile the terrible human paradox of needing to be enough and somehow never being enough, let me know, k thanks. I miss you.

   Kerry: The neck thing is second only to the enlarged eyes thing. Somehow, it reminded me of the whole face transplant thing which brings only one thought to my mind: can a brotha get a yikes?

   Kables: You caught the tag. You’re my hero.

5. Toftie October 27th, 2006 at 9:20 pm 5

   And then I thought “Yes, can someone please take away by overdeveloped shoulder muscles and lengthen my neck? I want surgery to be that easy.” But then I guess I missed the entire Dove Beauty message.

6. The Goat October 28th, 2006 at 4:21 pm 6

   I thought the girl was pretty cute at the start… but then again, all those ads that lead to distorted self-images in women are not driven by what men want at all, but by the sometimes brutal social competition amongst women themselves…

7. edgeplot October 29th, 2006 at 10:29 am 7

   Melissa: They make the eyes bigger because studies have shown that primates respond better to and find more attractive individuals with bigger eyes. Speculation is that we find this more attractive because the eyes of infants and children are proportionally larger than adults. Coulped with the sexual context of the ad, increasing they eye size to make the model more childlike is even creepier. Yech.

8. D M October 30th, 2006 at 10:19 am 8

   @Melissa-I don’t know if I can…but it makes for good stories, doesn’t it?

   Loving someone for who they are, and accepting the parts that you don’t like and won’t change, but also encouraging growth, and an evolving human…well, if I had the easy answer to that, I think all of us would be much happier.

   ‘Cause you know I’d share that information. I’m good like that.

9. Kerry G. October 30th, 2006 at 10:41 am 9

   I guess I’ve just never thought of a longer neck as being more sexy than any other neck. I can see how bigger eyes and more make-up and hair products would be more sexy to our society’s standards, but neck? It’s just a neck. It’s all very yikes.

10. Kerry G. October 30th, 2006 at 10:41 am 10

    oh ick. That just makes the whole thing way more yucky.