Media observation 15, Diet Pepsi

I heard this advertisement on the radio today that kind of flustered me. It was a monologue from Diet Pepsi, comparing women to it. Its punch line was that Diet Pepsi is "refreshingly perfect, like us." Not that I don't like to think of myself as close to perfect, ha ha, I know that I am not, but for people to say that we are is too much. When people say that women, especially women, are perfect, it makes women degrade themselves even more to say that they aren't good enough as they are and make themselves work harder to be skinnier, more appealing, and more depressed and hard on themselves. I do not like the comparison and I hope that most women do not take it that way.