Gillette commercial/PSA and the inevitable outrage
Saw this on the only other forum I'm still active on, and was surprised I hadn't seen it mentioned here.
Gillette recently aired long commercial which emphasized respect and responsibility rather than their products, while expressing concern over sexual harassment, bullying, toxic masculinity, and the blind eye Americans seem to turn to them because it is so culturally ingrained.
What say you, scholars and misfits of KMC? Has Gillette gone too far and deserving of the outrage and boycotts, or are people completely overreacting over what was intended as a positive message?
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Get woke go broke. I can't blame people for not wanting to buy the products of a company that is condescending towards them.
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triggered fascist babymen ruin everything. Now I can't wear a polo and you can't wear a beard.
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Who buys Gillette? I get mine from the dollar store.
If their target is thrift shop browsing millennials and they think this strategy will make them go for that money clip, good luck to them.
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Speaking of babies..I hear people are freaking out Trump bought some fast food for some college kids.
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I buy gillete. My beard is super-thick so I can't screw around with cheapo blades. Sorry if that came off like a commercial.
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I don't have a problem with the message they are presenting BUT it doesn't SEEM to coincide with the product they are selling.
They are probably going to lose customers because of the crazy messaging they have as it relates to their product.
I've never associated shaving with overly masculine behavior or boys that misbehave due to a masculine culture. Now when I go to the gym or compete in something, that is where I see testosterone meters pinging out.
Last edited by snowdragon on Jan 15th, 2019 at 05:13 PM
I dunno, I'd take me some Five Guys over overpriced status symbol food most days.
It's an easy thing to poke fun at, sure. Awesome story for the players: "Son, I was served Mcky'D's at the White House. Put down the phone, my 25 year old son, I am NOT going senile."
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.
It's also an easy way to highlight Trump Derangement Syndrome lol. I legit saw one person whining saying Trump was a bigot cuz he was stereotyping college kids by assuming they all love fast food.
Can you imagine if he'd fed them ramen?
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seems like you're trying super-hard to change the topic
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No I was just laughing at the side with the biggest babies on the planet calling others babies. You are free to continue your conversation bro, did you wanna wax poetic about youtubers now?
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If someone has a problem with this ad they're probably an *******. Id lump them in with the same people thay have a problem with the song Baby its Cold Outside. A bunch of d-bags with nothing better to do than pick a fight over nothing.
I imagine most people getting bent out of shape over this are the same types who ***** about political correctness, safe zones, outrage for the sake of outrage, and over-sensitivity in general, while calling anyone who shows even a slight disapproval over things they're ok with "libtards", "SJWs", and "snowflakes"...yet these bunch of pussies are throwing fits online over a preachy commercial.
Weird of Gillette to have a minute-and-a-half PSA to advertise their shaving products, but it's a positive message, at least.
"Oh, but they're alienating men, their core consumer base!"
If you're getting offended by a commercial stressing the importance of respect and responsibility, you may have some deeper underlying issues to address.
The commercial won't influence me to buy any more or less of their products than I already do, which at this point, is down to antiperspirant and sometimes shave gel.
I have a difficult time trying to find something wrong with this.
This is what they taught me as a youth in our Mormon churches.
This is what we were taught in Boy Scouts when Boy Scouts was called Boy Scouts of America.
This is what I was taught in sports during my secondary education years.
The core message I took away is a great man leads his male peers to do and act morally, respectfully, and justly. A couple of the clips in their montage was of men who stopped fights and taught young men what being a man is about.
How is this toxic? This is masculine. This is manly.
You don't have to be a neckbeard to respect women. In fact, shave your neckbeard and just don't say or do the creepy things like the advert pointed out.
Why is it considered unmanly to be a moral leader to your group of male friends? You don't have to be an SJW. Just act and say like they did in the advert. Don't get preachy. Keep the response very short and sweet. Don't dwell on it.
So the topic makes your butt hurt and that's somehow my fault?
__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
Couldn't care less about the commercial, wouldn't make me stop buying razors from them.
Am laughing at the sensitive males crying about it though. Just how fragile is your masculinity that an add about not being a male-shitstain triggers you?