I'm cooking breakfast and this commercial comes on. Its the latest cover girl commerical, and this time Ellen Degeneres is the model... she looks into the camera and says...
"inner beauty is important, but not nearly as important as outer beauty..."
Ellen, shame on you for selling out, you're whole career was built on the fact that you had very little outer beauty but your wit and humor prevailed. If outer beauty is so important, why don't you show us more of your body? Why are you in a black full pant suit in the commercial? Huh? If outer beauty is so important, lets see some legs honey... You were once a role model in full support of the notion that a women could be successful based on her intellect and observation (inner beauty) without having outer beauty, you were even on TV, an evironment notorious for selecting physical beauty.
What kind of message are you sending to all the girls and women in our culture that are already pathologically obsessed with their physical appearance? How much money did they give you?
2 comments:
I interpreted it as a tongue-in-cheek snide comment, with Ellen conceding that The Powers That Be overvalue outer beauty so you might as well play the game.
I don't think she sold out.
"... you might as well play the game."
???
sounds like a rehashing of the old, "don't hate the player, hate the game..."
come on...
you interpret as tongue and cheek, maybe snide? ok what do the marketers have to gain from being ironic? - you know its a direct hard sell - beauty counts buy our shit- don't believe me -here is the less attractive women confessing it...
suchita thanks for the comment!
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