Ugly People on My TV.

I'm noticing more and more that ugly people are trying to be passed off as beautiful in advertisements. I don't get this. I'm no prize-peach myself and definitely don't belong on television trying to sell anything, but I know unattractive when I see it. For example, a new Doritos commercial has a girl riding around in the back of a taxi as day magically becomes night while she eats the chips. This girl is kinda weird looking. And in the end, when they doll her up to look good, she looks even worse.

I'm not complaining, though. I think equality among actors and actresses, both good, bad and somewhere in between in terms of looks, is always good. Battling the whole unattainable image thing is great. The Dove campaign about real beauty was cool, even though they did Photoshop the women (relax, EVERY photo you see is retouched. Your senior portraits in high school were retouched if you graduated anytime after the late 90s). I just don't understand if all of these ugly people in advertisements are an active campaign among agencies and casting directors to bring more "real" looking people into ads, or if this is one of those things where what is considered beautiful is changing again to something that I don't find beautiful. Both are possible, but I'm betting it's the latter of the two. Or something completely different. I don't really know.

What I do know is that there are more ugly people trying to sell me stuff on TV. And it really isn't making a difference in my life whatsoever.