Dove Commercials - Not what I expected

So last night my wife called me over to the computer to show me a Dove commercial that was making the rounds of Facebook. This one.

At first I thought, "Wow, what a powerful message. I ought to use that in the Sex Ed unit I teach."

But then my wife sent me a link to this post the next morning while I was preparing for devotions in class.

Suddenly my opinion of the video was completely different.

Here's what bothers me most. I like to think of myself as an intelligent, perceptive, and critical thinking Christian, but I fell for the hidden messages in the video.

How are we to teach the discernment that we wish to see in our children when we don't always have it ourselves?

So, today, I threw my lesson plans for my Bible class out the window. Instead, we watched the video. Then we spent some time discussing it. The students had lots of praise for the video and pointed out the positive message that it was ostensibly aimed at. Then I had them go read the blog post rebuttal. After, we watched the video again. We spent some more time talking about it. The students had a very different reaction.

I hope that lessons about discernment of modern media sank in.

I did the best I could. I leave the rest in God's hands.