Comments on: When Advertising for Beauty Services goes too far

By: Jooj

Jooj — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:51:11 +0000

I agree that such practices are unethical and sickening. What’s even more sickening is how many people will brush it off, laugh it off or just turn around and accuse US of having a big fat stick up our arse.

By: ParisB

ParisB — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:42:44 +0000

Hey Sylvia

Yep they’re all the same people which is sickening. The ad you mentioned is kinda cute. Its a bit of reverse psychology without being degrading.

By: ParisB

ParisB — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:42:09 +0000

Hey Connie

You are NOT fat and people should learn to say “How are you” instead of “Put on weight?” It irks me.

By: ParisB

ParisB — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:41:36 +0000

Hi Saintangelius

Even for advertising I think it was too degrading. You’re right that there are better ways to sell a product than to show someone scolding another for being fat.

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:12:09 +0000

I know exactly who are the 3 companies that advertise these misleading short films. All 3 of them are branched out from one same company that provide services for hair loss, slimming and facial solutions. I saw the slimming solution short film just last week and took pity of any audience that may fell prey.

But there was another discon advert some time ago, which I found witty.
A girl with slim silhoutte received a call from ex-bf, begging her on the phone, “Fei Fei, please forgive me. Please come back to me.” At which Fei Fei (means fat girl in Cantonese) angrily put down the phone. She’s obviously been dumped when she’s fat and now when she is a slim hot chick, her ex-bf wants her back.

By: Connie

Connie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:06:09 +0000

Wonderful post! Those advertisements are definitely very degrading. I blame mostly the society and it’s even worse in Asia. Girls are expected to be petite and have fair skin otherwise, they’re ugly. I’m hot by Moroccan standards but not Malaysian Lol. That actually makes me more confident because I know guys generally won’t come to harass me. Why do you think Andrew’s so secure with himself? :p
But these companies, even though you’re already fair and petite, they’ll still find something to criticize and “fix”. A friend of mine who is already underweight (eats like a pig but she simply can’t put on weight) and when she went for some slimming centre free consultation (for fun), they were pin pointing all of her supposed flaws and calculating her fats… the girl doesn’t have flabs for goodness sake!
Ugh, I remember seeing one of those slimming advertisements, the girl wasn’t even overweight to begin with based on the figures they stated.
Oh! just last week, I went to the game shop that I haven’t been to in a while and the dude that works there was at the back talking to his colleague so he didn’t come over to us (we were talking to the shop owner). He acknowledged me, waved “Hi” and then made a sign that basically translates to “You’ve put on weight. why?” -_- was that even necessary? I gave a weak smile and didn’t linger long enough for him to actually come over and say that verbally.

ok, I’m done rambling…

By: Saintangelius

Saintangelius — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:18:02 +0000

I guarantee you that those ‘sad excuses for ads’ didn’t come from an advertising agency worth it’s salt. The scripts written for the skits were so thoughtless and downright disgusting. Only a complete chauvinist would write such trash like that… or the boss of said Slimming company ^^;;;
I chanced upon one of these episodes when I was watching tv with the boyfriend. The both of us were watching with our eyeballs popping out. Never had we seen anything like that particularly on Malaysian TV. It was pretty blatant. But the good thing about it, is that it opened an avenue of discussion. As indie film makers and creative people (and bloggers!) we should make it our priority and effort to show people that there are better ways to inform society about issues. And also that you can tell better stories than that if you put some effort into it.

By: ParisB

ParisB — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:11:33 +0000

Hi Reese

You too look great so don’t give in! Not all of us have to be stick thin and anorexic. I personally prefer looking at a woman with curves vs a skeleton and we wear dresses better too with curves As for the ad, um… I guess you could say its that group of companies