Did the marketing team at Dove make a mistake by portraying a mildly chunky soccer-momish woman as “normal sized” in its first ad for the “Campaign for Real Beauty” series? They seem to have pulled back from the billboard characterization on their website, with several models whose “real curves” have very narrow pavement, if you get my drift. I look at Dove’s dueling moves here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.