By now, most viewers have seen the powerful new video by Dove that has been circling the web which shows how many women see themselves in a negative light. In less than a week, the video has garnered over 7.5 million views.
New Feelings Time has just debuted their own parody version of the social experiment, only with a focus on men. Who would have thought men had such good self esteems.
Dove is known for their eye-opening media projects, often raising the veil on impossible societal expectations, specifically for women’s bodies.
For their latest social experiment, entitled Real Beauty Sketches, they recruited a slew of women to be blindly interviewed about their bodies. The questioner was actually a sketch artist drawing his subjects using only the answers the women themselves offered about their curves and blemishes.
When asked neutral questions such as, “What would be your most prominent feature,” nearly all the women would offer a negative answer, such as, “my fat head.”
After, the women were told to befriend another subject in the project. Incredibly, when they were interviewed about their new friend, they could only offer the most positive attributes.
When the women see the sketch made from their answers, and the much brighter, and nicer sketch made from the answers of their new friend, they naturally become emotional.
No matter where you are in the civilized world, it seems the same social problems persist. Homelessness is of course one of the most glaring issues around the globe.
Most people offer their change or few bucks to the unfortunate when they happen upon them on the streets, almost as an automatic reaction.
But how would people react when an apparent homeless man starts offering them money?
Greg of Mediocre Films thought it would make for an interesting social experiment. He recruited his actor friend Bruce to dress as a homeless person would, and instead of asking for a buck, he offers passersby money.
Some people take the money with a smile, but most are apprehensive to accept any gifts from someone seemingly less fortunate than them.
Most socially aware people know what it’s like to be hit on. After hearing the same four over-used pick up lines over and over, it kind of becomes a tedious ritual instead of an exciting social interaction.
As a kid, Mark Rober–who is viral video famous for his road kill experiment–grew a seriously rocking unibrow. But through high school he discovered the magic of tweezers, and by the 12th grade, he had blended in with the general population.
For years now, Mark has suspected that people with unibrows are discriminated against. As a man of science, he was determined to test out his hypothesis in a controlled manner.
He teamed up with his make-up artist friend who gave him a perfect looking, fake unibrow. Then he approached people at Walmart with simple, open-ended questions. As a control, he did the same with normal eyebrows.
After his inevitably short conversations, the test subjects would almost always comment about Mark’s unibrow.
After breaking down the numbers, Mark discovered the average response he received while ‘normal’ was over 30 words. While he was wearing his fake uni, it was only 16.
Scientifically, it is a possible to claim unibrow discrimination is real. Someone call the ACLU!
Also, teenage girls are way too liberal with their smart phone cameras.
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