Ron, your response was solely about you. While I did finish off with a question about your feelings about these characters, which you've answered, the bulk of my post was about the real impact media images have on all of us. You've taken some limited anecdotal feedback from some people you know and drawn the…

ron_mexico, if what you are claiming is true then advertising wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar business! All of us are bombarded from early childhood on by imagery and stories that tell us, subtly and not so subtly, what to want, what to aspire to, what to look like, smell like etc. etc. And, for most of us it's…