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Some of the drawings were innocuous, such as one depicting the Prophet dressed in simple white attire and sandals, holding a staff and leading a pack-animal. Several others were explicitly ironical or self-referential, such as that of a cartoonist labouring late at night over a drawing of Mohammad. Still others were more hostile, such as one depicting a glowering Prophet wearing a bomb in place of a turban. The goal for the feature, according to editor-in-chief Carsten Juste (2006), was to promote dialog on the subject of Islam and censorship.
Thus the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty works by using apparently contradictory messages to support a dominant paradigm – in this case playing to a presumed public dissatisfaction with ‘unreal’ images of women being used to sell beauty products. It is a hugely successful campaign then, not because it in some way tells the ‘truth’, but because it uses resistant discourse to fortify a dominant paradigm. It does so by flattering its audience: positioning us as informed, intelligent and even radical consumers.
Some of the drawings were innocuous, such as one depicting the Prophet dressed in simple white attire and sandals, holding a staff and leading a pack-animal. Several others were explicitly ironical or self-referential, such as that of a cartoonist labouring late at night over a drawing of Mohammad. Still others were more hostile, such as one depicting a glowering Prophet wearing a bomb in place of a turban. The goal for the feature, according to editor-in-chief Carsten Juste (2006), was to promote dialog on the subject of Islam and censorship.