Are you upset by this Gillette ad? Is it an attack on men?

GoatZenHeimer wrote:

toxic masculinity wrote:

.....then you are a whiny little b*tc$

Did you just use a sexist term?

yep, sure did. did I offend your fragile sensibilities?

Deflect-meisters wrote:

Here the privileged go, turning what COULD be a productive positive dialogue into an aggressive blaming game.

If I had P&G money, or even Gillette money, I'd be privileged.

toxic masculinity wrote:

GoatZenHeimer wrote:

Did you just use a sexist term?

yep, sure did. did I offend your fragile sensibilities?

Whatever turns you on.

It’s one thing for activists to spout about causes they believe in -at least their intentions are pure. It’s quite another for commercial enterprises to hijack causes for the sake of making money. Dubious intentions and bad taste

Bib #1 wrote:

It’s one thing for activists to spout about causes they believe in -at least their intentions are pure. It’s quite another for commercial enterprises to hijack causes for the sake of making money. Dubious intentions and bad taste

Or does it just signal that such causes are now mainstream?

Democrat “men” are gays.

Harambe wrote:

Bib #1 wrote:

It’s one thing for activists to spout about causes they believe in -at least their intentions are pure. It’s quite another for commercial enterprises to hijack causes for the sake of making money. Dubious intentions and bad taste

Or does it just signal that such causes are now mainstream?

Somewhere in the bowels of corporate America some advertising / marketing executives are self contentedly clucking about having instigated “conversation” and visibility for the Gillette brand. We’re all just being used, as are the causes that are purportedly being supported

Commercial gain and social benefit are not mutually exclusive. We know this is an advertisement; that's not what is being discussed. You scored 0 "clever" points here. Try again.

Bib #1 wrote:

Somewhere in the bowels of corporate America some advertising / marketing executives are self contentedly clucking about having instigated “conversation” and visibility for the Gillette brand. We’re all just being used, as are the causes that are purportedly being supported

If the truth hurts you, then maybe you should take notes from the video.

Bib #1 wrote:

Somewhere in the bowels of corporate America some advertising / marketing executives are self contentedly clucking about having instigated “conversation” and visibility for the Gillette brand. We’re all just being used, as are the causes that are purportedly being supported

Having national ad campaigns about this stuff does make it seem more normal to people. This is longer lasting and more powerful (likely) than any backlash from troglodytes. Normalization will make these ideas commonplace for the next generation

Vancomycin wrote:

Unintentional, bad-faith, over-defensiveness is my favorite and somehow this ad has brought it out en masse.

Accusing all men of supporting rape and harassment is a pretty serious attack. Why shouldn't people be defensive?

Need a good laugh? Read the comment section of that video.

GILLETTE: Men/boys can be strong, kind and considerate at the same time.

REACTION: SJW ruined shaving! How dare they attack men! Boycott Gillette!

Yes, tired of this pandering. My SJW aunt loves the ad, but she doesn't buy their products.

Answer me this. Innocent or not, why wasn't Seacrest brought down by #metoo, but all the ugly dudes were without due process?

The War on Toxic Masculinity has been a big issue for over a century, Teddy Roosevelt campaigned almost exclusively on how to fight it.

over-defensive person wrote:

Vancomycin wrote:

Unintentional, bad-faith, over-defensiveness is my favorite and somehow this ad has brought it out en masse.

Accusing all men of supporting rape and harassment is a pretty serious attack. Why shouldn't people be defensive?

Add in hyperbole and self-victimization that list. No reasonable person reads that from the video unless... they were looking to get offended!

Liberals used to be the best at acting outraged. Whiny conservatives have now surpassed them in only a few years. It's impressive.

So when will the #MeToo movement get around to addressing the massive number of black men who impregnate women and then refuse to act as fathers? What company is going to release that ad, and will the liberal response be equally positive?

Wow. Just wow.

"To say the right thing. Do the right thing. Some men already are. But some is not enough."

That is crazy. Only some men do the right thing and say the right thing. According to Gillette, the vast majority of men are animals.

insane...

The problem here is that women are eating all this "propaganda" up as though it's a fact. This is not good.

I'm guessing that Gillette figured out that their target market is really women (I guess that women do most of the buying of razors and other Gillette products)

Pretty easy to boycott Gillette. More difficult to boycott P&G as a whole.. They corner a lot of markets.

Anyway, it seems that most men won't really care about this ad (most will never see it or if they do, they don't care). Most men don't actually make the razor purchase decision. So this will not negatively affect Gillette sales. What this ad does however is promoting stereotypes. I thought that society had surpassed that.