I first saw this advertisement in New Zealand a while back.

Crazy, isn’t it?

All the camera work, photoshop and all that creates a whole new person. It almost scared me at first, what we see isn’t actually there but, what actually is there is something less beautiful, something less attractive, less appealing to the eye and mind. I knew about all this photoshop stuff ages ago but took it all for granted, now when I think over it. It’s disappointing. All the FHMs, Maxims and Sports Illustrated calenders are just illusions created by our perception with some computer generated trickery….. correction: It’s almost devastating.

This Dove ad has taken away the fantasy for many males of all age of the 21st century of female perfection, and replaced it with troubling philosophical thoughts and a distaste for the soap company.

Helen Keller once said that–”The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” I admire Helen Keller for what she has achieved during her lifetime, but at the moment I disagree with her very moving quote. With all due respect to Mrs Keller, but I should be able to enjoy the most beautiful things that CAN be touched and seen and THEN I can catch up with feeling with the heart bit, later on in life…