Lately I have been studying the media, reading articles, watching news and looking for anything I can find that makes me feel like there is still hope for our world. If you have read any of my previous articles, then you already know what my concerns are.

For those of you who are reading me for the first time, my concerns are strong regarding women today and their search for the true identity of themselves.

Women today have fierce competition. I have also talked to many men and they have let me know that they would not change their gender for any amount of money. They really feel sorry for women today. Some of them even shared with me that they hate the fact that everywhere they look, the media idea of ​​”The Perfect Woman” is plastered on their faces. It sure is nice to look at, any human being will appreciate a pretty picture. However, what happens at that very moment is that they (men) find themselves in a situation where they feel like they are betraying their partner by not knowing exactly how to react. I know, I know, some of you are thinking that it’s women’s fault that men think like that. I will agree in some cases, but these men I have spoken to were being quite genuine in the fact that they did not appreciate it themselves.

I will be the first to say yes to prostitution. Why? Because it keeps the bloody street rapists from attacking women they don’t want. I say yes to porn; keeps men who are afraid of approaching real women relieved of a much-needed natural release. I also say yes to alcohol and chocolate ice cream, but my dear readers, before you frown at me for what I just said, listen to me say this. “I don’t approve of the force and unrestrained lordship with which the media shoves all of this down our throats. I thought this was a free country. When did we lose the right to choose if we want to have the media’s idea of ​​’The Perfect Woman” shoved down our throats every time we turn on the TV, walk into a bar, just drive down the street (billboards), open a magazine, listen to a song, or just look around our teenagers’ bedroom.”

I was reading an article announcing the new television lineups for this fall season. I was horrified when I read about the graphic violence being used against women. Episodes showing a woman writhing in a cage, her eyes duct-taped, while a man’s hands are shown grabbing her bloody fingers through the bars of the cage and ripping out her fingernails. Another is chained like a dog in a cellar by her supposedly loving husband. She gets worse; there is also one with a woman paralyzed by poisonous spider bites and being raped by a masked figure. This is what society allows to see after dinner. I’m embarrassed to even say this is my world seeing this. They made more noise when Janet Jackson slipped a spike from her nipple in a fucking football game. In a word… SAD!! The media has definitely figured out how to make money at the expense of every woman. On a much happier note, “Cheers Dove” is all I can say. Dove is pushing hard and continuing an uphill climb to bring back what she put on this earth as The Real Women.

Check this out: (Copy and paste into your browser) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHX6frPHpQo…. I also came across an article that tried to reduce this refreshing change. The people at the magazine who pride themselves on using unrealistic-looking airbrushed models called the Dove girls in this commercial “civilians.” Say oh! That is a very obvious sign of defeat. They’re even trying to say that women today won’t want to buy ads that don’t promise unrealistic beauty. Ladies, the media is calling you stupid from what I’ve read. I take that as a direct insult.

It’s about time someone stood up and gave the negative actions of the media a chance. Money made at the expense of real women, as I said once. They also mention something as silly as women worrying if they look fat in their pants, as an old-age insecurity. DUH! Nobody said it was new, jeesh. I’m also curious as to how far women today are willing to let the media idea of ​​”The Perfect Woman” go. We are already the end of the cosmetic surgery joke. I feel like the only reason the real women at Dove would turn down any woman is because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking that the media idea of ​​”The Perfect Women” is what’s real. I feel sorry for them. Ladies of today, we must rise up and fight back. Don’t let them turn what is supposed to be real into Barbie dolls.

Many women are confused about what it is and what it is not. Why do you think so many women suffer from low self-esteem, with cosmetic surgery on every corner and so many unrealistic expectations that come to us from the media about what a woman is supposed to look like? BLA bla. No wonder women are so confused.

Well I know there is strength in numbers and I know there are more women today who are fed up with all the media ideas. Ladies with low self-esteem, get up, go to the store and support DOVE. And that? They make money and yes, maybe there is some truth in that they too are using us as a way to make a profit. But at least we have a place to start turning things around. We will never be able to turn them back, but we can make them work for us, not against us. Oh if anyone thinks that Dove has asked me, or paid me to talk about them on my blog, NO and NO. I speak for all the women who have been harmed by all the crap the media is trying to run our world with. WomensSelfesteem.com is pleased to say that Dove is doing something very good on behalf of “real women” today.

“Don’t back down just to keep the peace,

Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.”

-Oprah Winfrey