Gillette spreads the myth that masculinity is toxic
Gillette is the newest corporation to jump into the Liberal assault on men. Being masculine means you are a bully, you have no respect for women, you have low standards, you are prone to commit sexual assault and sexual harassment, you are a problem that needs to be dealt with.
This latest attack by the METOO movement to stereotype masculine men. Using the caustic radical hypocrisy of Ana Kasparian destroys any hope Gillett might have had for credibility. She preaches to us about how to act, what to think, and believes that people should not be bullied or shamed. That is what she claims anyway. Here is an example of how Anna really acts and what she has to say about body shaming: WARNING STRONG LANGUAGE AND UN-LADY LIKE CONDUCT
This is a prime example of a woman using Toxic Feminism. Notice that the male members do not act this way. They know that other men would probably knock them on their ass if they acted like that. Anna Kasparian uses the fact that she is a woman and will not be knocked on her ass regardless of how she acts or what she says… Toxic Feminism. During this event, there was a man who spits at another…but he does so as he is running away. Again, men generally know that you can not talk to anyone just any way you want…women can and cowards run.
She is a vial woman that speaks about not being treated differently because she is a woman. Yet, she has her breasts enlarged and a nose job so she can weaponize her sexuality.
This woman has been caught reporting untrue stories so many times I can not imagine anyone using her as an example of a professional journalist. She works for TYT which is about as far left and progressively fascist as one could get. Women like her hide behind their sexuality while attacking men by viciously dehumanizing them for being…not women. In any event, this is what she thinks of women who choose to be conservative, Republican or any of the 32 million other women who voted for President Trump.
For some reason, we are allowing this sliver of toxic trollips to gain the favor of major corporations. I will not purchase anything else from Gillette. I do not miss the NFL. Which brings me to my next point.
Having an NFL player preaching to me about proper conduct is repugnant. Terry Crews needs to STFU on public TV and grow a pair around his fellow NFL thugs.
That chart only covers a 5 year period.
I have never and will never sit quietly while another man puts his hands on a woman. The last man that tried to attack a woman around me spent two weeks in the hospital and then went prison for attempted rape. I put him in both places. Turning young men into Cuckolds instead of teaching them what it means to be a man is the problem.
Anyway, I only shave because my wife makes me. I use the Dollar Shave Club because that’s what she says I have to use. I sleep in a bed she picked out, under a blanket she picked and surrounded by a dozen damn pillows that she wanted. I live in a house she picked, its the color she wanted and I drive a car that is her hand me down.
Nothing completes a man like the love of a good woman. I gotta go, dishes to do.
Category: Diversity, Dumbass Bullshit, Liberals suck, Politics
Last fall I realized I had been shaving daily my entire adult life, a morning ritual. The Navy demanded it, and it carried over into my civilian lifestyle.
Then it happened- I noticed most of the non-military guys at work were sporting some sort of facial growth, from scruff to full beards. A catharsis of sorts.
Long story short, I now have a full beard which I trim short about once a week. Toxic masculinity? Cool. The gray? Don’t care, I earned those silver strands.
Gillette can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
Love the last line of your entry Ed. My dad used it a lot. And now so do I. Thanks for the grin!
The 1st time I had grown a feeble full beard was on a leave over in Europe. Me and a buddy built some nice state of the art type bicycles of Italian components and went riding around , camping out and staying in hostels. Other than that pretty much kept a “stash” sometimes in reg sometimes not in reg.
Then after my time in uncle sugars air force. It was still similar appearance standards in the corporate aviation maintenance biz, except I kept growing full beards since we were allowed to, as long as they were kept neat and not of ZZ Top standards in the winter, eventually after years of grooming, I can grow a nice one real quick.
And then I retired, soooo I let my hair grow, since lucky me as compared to my peers, I still have lots of hair right down to my shoulders as well as a full tho a bit snowy white full beard, which is all year ’round now,
Sooo PHUCK GILLETTE they’re bunch of fudgepackin’ buttheads, I don’t buy their bullsheet anyway, I use a trimmer and for razors what ever 2 blades that come in a pack of 10 and is cheap and are throw away, and never Gillette’s for sure from now on. I’ll not use any of their shaving products.
I switched to a safety razor a few years ago, but got lazy recently and started using a Gillette Hybrid 3 last year. Won’t be replacing it once the blades are gone. Safety razors are cheaper anyway.
Been using a vintage Gillette NEW Short Comb circa 1932-40 for about three years now. Found it at a local flea market for $5. This of course was when Gillette was making razors and not plastic pieces of overpriced dreck.
https://youtu.be/KZDPEogOU34
I’m old school. For the past 10 years I’ve used a safety razor, buying blades at the local grocery, 5 pack for a dollar. I also use a brush and shaving soap. I splurge and buy a cake of shave soap at Cracker Barrel for 7 bucks that lasts all year. Gillette can honk on bobo as far as I’m concerned. Check out The Art of Manliness. http://www.theartofmanliness.com
Yup, same. I bought myself a nice Merkur safety razor for ~$40 about 5 years ago and a pack 100 blades from various manufacturers for around $15. Since I don’t shave other than for drill, that initial pack has lasted me to this day with plenty of blades left over. I like that a blade is only 10-25 cents, compared to $3-$5 for a Gillette.
What’s a safety razor?
A safety razor is a shaving implement with a protective device positioned between the edge of the blade and the skin. In other words, your dad, or maybe granddad’s old razor. It uses double edged blades that you manually insert into the head.
I believe that Gillette may be a subsidiary of Proctor & Gamble.
Here’s a link to a list of other toxic brands:
https://us.pg.com/brands/
‘White Western men whistling at women = toxic masculinity
Middle-Eastern Muslim men raping females and little boys = cultural expression’
So Gillette, what say you?
(The above logic borrowed from HushHush of ZH)
Stop that, using facts and logic!
How dare you!
Wa-men like Kasparian fall into the-
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-crowd. They scream, yell, and bully while they stereotype every man as a Neanderthal. Then they sit around in their little coffee clutches whining & bemoaning that “there aren’t any good men left” while her eggs and ovaries shrivel. Hey Anna, there are plenty of good men: they defend this country, protect citizens, heal the sick & lame, build monuments, and create technology while being loving & caring fathers, husband, and brothers. You wouldn’t know that because any guy with any sense gives you and your kind a wide berth when his “bitch alarm” threat detector starts pinging like crazy. I have a full beard, so I only touch-up my neck every few days. Razors are something I buy once a year??? I’d buy shares of Unilever (UL) which is buying Dollar Shave Club and go long. Gillette is about to take a beating.
The Gillette commercial is the topic of the vote on KHOU in Houston this morning. You can only give a yes or no to the question of “Do you like it when companies take a stand on social issues?” That’s it yes or no. No explanation just yes or no. Not surprising, no leads at 73% right now. What I have a issue with the notion of “toxic masculinity”. What the hell is that? Is it boys being boys? In the form of the sexually charged comments or actions, yes. In the form of bullying, no. Bullies come in all shapes, sizes, and sexes. There is no call to bully anyone so just stop! If you are being bullied, please stand up for yourself. A bully is less likely to keep it up if they are confronted.
Toxic Masculinity = Wusification of Men
You’ve heard of ‘Metrosexual?’ this is worse.
They won’t stop until you are ashamed of your Johnson. In fact, they will have a movement to rename the US Air Force base Seymour Johnson because it offends people.
I really like Schick’s newest viral marketing campaign. If men, in general, are falling short of their razor blade manufacturer’s expectations for them, I’m sure there are many alternative products that don’t come with such expectations.
Been using Harry’s razors for some time. They’re cheaper and last longer. Gillette would be better served to drop the price of their products instead of wasting money on this asinine campaign. I just want a good product at a good price. That’s all. No preaching. My dad (LtCol D) would refer to Gillette’s actions as “reading the bible over someone as you screw them in the ass”. He would’ve loved TAH.
I scrolled down to the comments for the sole purpose of commenting about Harry’s razors.
They cost less and last longer. And don’t come with Social Justice bullshit.
you may want to check this out about Harry’s – saw this just a few minutes ago…
https://www.harrys.com/go/amanlikeyou/
I was blissfully unaware of that. I kind of liked the film. Harry’s seemed to be telling me that being a man is a full-time lifelong learning curve and nobody has all the answers, while Gillette told me I’m a bully, a misogynist, and a wife beater. Harry’s wins.
1. F*ck Gillett
2. They just lost me as a life long customer
3. Get woked. Go broke.
4. Bring back beards for senior NCOs
This seems like a situation where a company can take a reasonable idea in concept, and completely screw it up in execution. For those who might not be aware of it, the Gillette ad is designed to run on the 30th anniversary of the launch of the company’s “Best A Man Can Be” campaign. As a prelude to that, Gillette’s parent company Proctor and Gamble did some market research which showed American focus groups tend to value the four “great man” characteristics of honesty, moral integrity, hard work and respect of others. So far, so good.
Things apparently started to go off the rails when P&G’s ad agency, Grey New York, decided to choose British feminist film director Kim Gehrig to make the ad. Among Gehrig’s more notable recent efforts has been the ad work “Viva La Vulva” for the Swedish brand Libresse, who make feminine hygiene products.
From a business standpoint, it also seems to me a fair question to ask is this: How is Gehrig’s feminista attack on so-called “toxic masculinity” supposed to move Gillette stuff off of store shelves? If you’re trying to pitch a product, it’s likely a reasonable idea to get everyone’s attention with some edgy film work, but not if you do it in a way that annoys half your target demographic.
1. British
2. Feminist
Found two problems right off the bat.
THIS
You can chart this phenomenon across the business world. Corporation X has an advertising exec with years in the business. He retires. The newest members of the board of directors convinces the rest of the board that they have this handled. They are given the go-ahead to hire a new advertising exec. They canvas all the leading universities for recent grads with degrees in advertising. They find one and hire him/her, usually hired away from their first job. The new hire is a committed SJW, and his/her ideas soon show up as a “new, enlightened” ad campaign.
3 to 6 months later, the Board notices that revenue is down, the corporation’s standing is in shambles.
See Dick’s Sporting Goods and Newsweek for examples.
“Toxic masculinity” and being a man are two entirely different things, that our society has become so ignorant as to not understand the difference speaks volumes about the degradation of our public education system.
I don’t much care what people like this think about me, in fact I think most of us as veterans don’t give two shits what the general public perceives or doesn’t perceive about us and our lives.
I don’t need lessons from Gillette or Starbucks, or The Young Turds, or the mainstream media on how to be a man. I learned that from my parents a long, long time ago long before I even joined the military.
I buy whatever cheap ass razors are on sale…I use them until the blades start to get rusty, my skin isn’t so fragile I need a samurai sword sharpness to shave…half these shaving commercials look like they’re made by pussies for other pussies who are afraid of a “rough” shave…these wobbly, panty waisted fucks use moisturizers and products like some girls for christ’s sake when they shave and do their hair. Moisturizers? Really? The same fucking soap that washes my ass also washes my hair…it’ll be a cold day in hell before I use some fruity moisturizers and products. When I see these commercials I think of the fruity kids that work for me wearing skinny jeans and neatly coiffed beards as fashion accessories along with their man buns…toxic masculinity? We don’t even know what masculinity looks like these days.
While we are busy teaching our sons how to be little cupcake fruity fucks our enemies are teaching their 6 year olds how to field strip an AK and use it to kill their enemies.
Gillette and all the other assclowns trying to have a “dialogue” can go fuck themselves, I neither need or desire their assistance to be the best that I can be.
Well said VOV. Hit that nail all on top of its head and drove it home. Only thing that snake headed bitch got right was the statement about “over half of this country is stupid.” And we know which half this is. The half that buys into this crap. You want to be treated like a lady or a human being? Then act like a lady or a human being. Women already control most of the wealth and all of the vaginas. What more can they want? When the muzzies and the MS-13 types are allowed to take over, who you gonna call?
Tanks for the list Tallywagger. Only change I got to make is in toothpaste and dishwashing liquid. Shame about the Dawn. It works for me and I like that they do good work on cleaning up critters caught up in oil spills.
Don’t miss the national felon league either. Didn’t realize how many had been arrested. One a week for the last 260 weeks….Sad…Wonder how many were actually convicted.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, VOV. I learned true masculinity from my Grandpa, an Irish coal miner’s son who worked his ass off every day, either at his job or around the house; who knew every weapon in his house inside and out; who raised the Flag in front of his house every morning; who quit cold turkey from smoking four packs a day because the doctor told him secondhand smoke was giving his beloved wife emphysema. I learned it from my Uncle, a Vietnam Marine vey whose heart was as big as his language was coarse; who never missed a chance to take me and my cousins hunting; who taught all of us the value of family and friends. I learned it from my Dad, who told me as a kid to never pick a fight, “but if they start it, you finish it;” who told me whenever I thought something was too hard that “that’s why pussies don’t do this, now keep going, you almost got it;” who, when my Mom woke up screaming in terror and pointing at the window one night, did not hesitate or ask questions and just grabbed the closest available rifle and charged out the door in his underwear to meet the threat and stop it from reaching his wife and kids (false alarm, and a pretty funny story, actually); who would whip my ass for disrespecting my mother; who picked me up from school one day when I was eight, told me that my Grandpa had passed away, and pulled the truck over to hug me as I wept for fifteen minutes, then explained to me that we couldn’t let my Mom see us cry now, because she had just lost her father and shouldn’t be expected to have to worry about us; who, when my first daughter was born, taught me the importance of her knowing that the safest place she can be is in her daddy’s arms. I don’t particularly care how screeching socialist harpies and arrogant soy-sipping pussies define masculinity or what they think is toxic. I already… Read more »
Well said. I’m glad I was raised by men to be a man.
ALL of you have said it right!! We were raised in the days when men taught sons to be men — not only in word, but in action and deed.
VOV: Loved the quote, “…that’s why pussies don’t do it…”
“I already learned from actual men.” Says it all.
OK I will embrace my feminine side. I will become a lesbian. I challenge all of the others males here a TAH to do the same.
Embrace your inner feminine side and join me in becoming a lesbian.
I had sex with a gorgeous woman within the last ten hours. Does that count?
I have been a lesbian all of my life. I self identified as such for decades before the whole self identity thing started.
My gender is still male. Been my experience that most females prefer male lesbians.
I, too, am a male lesbian. Very butch. I’m the dominant one.
I am as well! And I can rock a flannel shirt with the best of ’em!
I see your flannel shirt and raise you a pair of steel toe boots!!
Got those too, Doc Martins even! So now I’m a skinhead-Nazi lesbian!
Do you like whale watching?
That’s a criteria me thinks.
I don’t watch them so much as hunt them.
I’ve EATEN whale. Had some in Japan just so’s I can tell that fact to the GreenPeace Granolas.
How’d it taste? I imagine it’s somewhat like dolphin crossed with bald eagle and endangered condor.
It was a bit fatty, actually. Think I had more of the blubber than the red meat. I’ll specifically target red meat next!
You, Sir, are my hero!
Ana Kasparian: an ethnic Armenian who works for the islamofascist Cenk Uygur, who denies the Armenian Genocide and even named his channel The Young Turks after the very same political organization that carried it out. That right there should tell you everything you need to know about the bitch.
Ana could eat all the makeup she’d like, she’ll never be pretty on the inside.
Do yourself a favor, [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsVONO75utI?list=LL1zKhWVbUNZFozD6F9NUL8g&w=560&h=315%5D
Oh lord. Crowder’s impression is so spot on. It’s not even a parody, Cenk and Ana are really like that.
You mean Chunk Yogurt? That is one truly disgusting man. Repugnant doesn’t even begin to describe him.
Watching the YouTube clip of the Young Turds having a collective meltdown when Trump won the election sure is a classic. Fat ass Yogurt was apoplectic.
I’m not sure where Gilette is going with this either. The feminazis don’t shave and their pencilneck male counterparts, featured in many TV commercials nowadays, all have a few days growth on their faces. That leaves the very people who take offense at Gilette’s what-the-hell-is-this commercial to buy their products. As for Anahit Misak Kasparian, born to Armenian parents, she’s a member of the Young Turks? Her family must be so proud. The Young Turks came to power to establish democracy but, you know, that’s not how things worked out. Instead, the Young Turks, under its Committee of Union and Progress, literally crucified Armenians, among other methods of killing them, in what is known as the Armenian Genocide that took an estimated 1.5 million lives.
I wonder what Bob Kraft thinks of his Gillette Stadium in Foxboro. With tickets sales way up and the Super Bowl looming. His toxic male players making him millions.
Then Gillette cuts itself shaving. Deep cut.
Right across the adams apple and into the trachea.
Gillette dorked the squeakhole pretty hard with this ad campaign – bad move to lump all men into the same category as Weinstein and the others.
Ranks right up their with Starbucks and their campaign to have their baristas talk to customers about racial issues.
Funny, but no man I know thinks it’s ever even remotely acceptable to treat women with the utmost respect and as an equal.
Until they don’t deserve it, at which point, goodbye.
This “woman” wants equal rights (actually special rights) without the responsibilities or consequences of such. Yeah, don’t think so.
As far as Gillette goes? Stay in your lane, dipshits.
To treat women with LESS THAN the utmost respect.
Jesus, I need to find some WD-40 for my brain today to break it loose. Too freaking cold.
Try Break Free instead … tastes better.
P B Blaster, less filling, half the calories.
Indeed. I’m also reminded of Bill Burr’s take on feminist double standards.
“‘There is no reason to hit a woman!’ Really? I can think of about twelve off the top of my head. You just don’t do it! Besides, how arrogant do you have to be to think you can go around being a total cunt and expect to just get a pass?”
Like he says, there’s plenty of reasons. You just don’t do it.
The only woman I ever hit was my cousin. We were both 10 years old and it was a fair fight. We’re still arguing over who won, 45 years later.
I socked my little sister once when I was about 10 or 11. In my defense, pissing me off for her own amusement is her lifelong passion.
Anyway, Mom slapped me around for it almost immediately. Dad came home the next day, called me into the master bedroom, and asked if I had struck my sister. When I said yes, he gut-punched me quite literally across the room (seriously, I had to help him patch the drywall where the back of my head broke through it). He said, “You’re bigger and stronger than your sister. I’m bigger and stronger than you. Do we need to have this conversation *ever* again?”
My sister caught her own ration of shit for provoking me, but I never did that again, though I was tempted a few times.
If you want to learn more about TYT (The Young Turds) click this to view the Regressive Agenda by AIU.https://youtu.be/DkelJMJfnu4
Toxic masculinity runs in my family. It’s a genetic thing. I tried to switch after two things happened, in rapid succession. First, I was sitting at a table and a woman who recognized me approached. I stood up and she said, “Oh, are you just leaving?” A couple of days later, I held the door for a woman at an office building entrance and she looked at me incredulously and said, “If you’re holding that for me, don’t bother. I can open a door.” And that was that. I tried hard to change but that toxic masculinity gene would not be defeated.
As I see it, you’re screwed no matter what you do with a modern day feminazi, they’re gonna cuss no matter what action you take!
What’s always amusing to me is the women that act like that in public are always pissing and moaning to my wife how they don’t like living alone….
They don’t ever tell me about how they don’t like living alone, at least not more than once…because I don’t mind telling them their attitude is going to insure they die alone. Simple polite behavior in society seems to escape people, I hold doors for anyone coming in after me, male or female or old or young…it’s just common decency to not let the door close in someone’s face.
Some stupid ass wants to tell me she can open her own doors I’m likely to tell her that based on how she looks I’m surprised she can find her way out the door in the morning. You want to be a rude asshole, I’m up for a challenge.
They want to be treated like equals until they realize that there are bad parts to that as well.
Bill Burr had an interesting take – yeah, there are things that are unequal… as in why do I have to give up my seat in the Titanic life raft?
I have a downstairs neighbor that is a soyboi and married with two young daughters… a real work of art. Runs around pissed off at the world over the littlest things and spends the weekends yelling at his kids and the wife. Never see him do a damn thing to help her out, but if you say a word to him, he shows you how toxic he is.
You’re right about how doing the simplest, right things just escapes people today (especially the SJW crowd). Hold a door open, and someone gets all butt hurt over it. Say “Merry Christmas”, and someone is offended. Don’t leave a tip for shitty service at a restaurant, and it’s “raycisst” or “sexist”. Call someone by the wrong pronoun, and watch them meltdown.
” Call someone by the wrong pronoun, and watch them meltdown.”
You mean like whatsitsface in the Game Stop?
Talk about someone who made an absolute fool of himself. Even worse, he turned himself into a meme.
Just as bad as the soiboy that did the video crying about Justin Beiber…
You’re not referring to that idiot Eric Douglace by any chance are you? The guy that wanted to declare “war” on people who didn’t like Justin Bieber and posted a video about it on YouTube.
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
That individual’s proper pronoun is “fucking asshole.”
I would just pull the reverse gender thing on her (like the guys at Article 15 clothing do) and say “no silly, I’m waiting on that cute guy behind you…” when she looks let the door close on her.
True story: About 15 years back, I held the door at Walmart for a gentleman in a wheelchair. He snarled “I don’t need your fuckin’ charity”. I let the door swing shut, it cracked him in the knees and rolled his ass right back onto the sidewalk. And I felt not one iota of guilt. Mom and Dad raised me to always hold the door for the person behind you.
That honestly made me laugh. Hopefully that taught him a lesson in being more appreciative of someone else’s kindness/respectfulness and taught him the fact that if you want to act like a prick and mistreat others, then that’s exactly how you will be treated in return (seems his parents failed to teach him that part).
I don’t hold the door for women anymore. Now when I see one coming I grab hold of the door and make her fight me for it. Then if she wins, she’ll know she did it all on her own without a man’s help.
*points to self* This is what a feminist looks like.
I could only force myself to watch just a little more than 45 seconds of that shit, I was raised by”Toxic Masculinity” with Mentors who were WWII, Korea and Vietnam Vets as well as others who worked their asses off for what they had, and guess what? I STILL PASS THAT ON to my Son and other youth who pay attention to what i teach them and I let them know not to let the wusscake fleabags get in the way of any success they want to earn as well as to NOT feel even the tiniest amount of guilt for any honest success they earn. FUCK POLITICAL CORRECTNESS to death up the ass sideways with rusty barbed wire wrapped in asbestos soaked in diarrhea and nuclear waste, it’s little more than fascism with a smiley face and rainbows, it’s us being told to change our speech and opinions to please a crowd of snot-nosed minions!
I would suggest you learned to protect others from bullies, to stop assholes from treating women with disrespect or violence and to maintain a polite society attitude when outside your home in public.
There’s nothing toxic about that, the fucktards who have parties where women are getting raped while drunk or who think picking on the slow kid is funny aren’t men they aren’t part of a good old boys club they are just fucktards who have never deserved or received respect from those of us raised by actual men as opposed to dipshits who think bullying and raping drunk women is acceptable.
The whole idea that there are people who do nothing while others are being hurt are representative of an entire series of generations of men is reprehensible to me on every level. If that were even a little true there would be far more rapes and bullying than we see now. I’m not suggesting there isn’t a problem and I’m not making light of it…but this entire concept makes no more sense than the idea that me owning a firearm contributes to deadly shootings.
I completely and wholeheartedly concur with what you said, especially about the firearms, some human gelding surrendering his firearms to curb violence is like him castrating himself because his neighbor has eight kids!
Here, Here! Completely agree. Maybe if more of them do it, than we won’t have another generation of idiots though!
Maybe we can get Gillette to run a campaign: If you turn in your gun, you get a free razor!
That’s probably the next one… someone in PR or with the Ad Company has the idea all drawn out on PowerPoint and ready to put it out there at the next board meeting
Kasparian will die a bitter old woman, alone with a houseful of cats.
She got married a couple of years ago – “husband” probably has Stockholm Syndrome by now.
To go with the strap-on, no doubt.
I’d lean more towards suicidal ideation.
Probably spiking his food with Estrogen and Estradiol.
I have been using the Wilkinson Sword disposables from Walmart for decades now. Three blade and cheap as hell.
They are now sold under the Equate brand, but they are still Wilkinson Sword.
Get a dozen for about 7 bucks.
I just don’t like having a beard. Moustache, yes, beard no…
Especially in the hot Texas Sun.
Get woke, go broke…
You notice we haven’t seen hide nor hair from kapernutsak for the entire season now.
LMAO !!!!
I’m sure that the left now sees Kraperdick as used up, thus he’s been thrown away on some heap alongside Cindy Sheehag.
I’m surprised no one here has yet correlated the overwhelming reaction to this ad campaign and the true feelings of most of the American public. The original Gillette video on the tube of you’s, there have been more than 4.2 million views…88k thumbs up and 325k thumbs down. Other videos talking about this video have a similar ratio of reactions. Of the 95k and counting comments, sorted by opinion, the vast majority are calling Gillette stupid, the whole concept of “toxic-masculinity” stupid and are by-and-large grateful for the transparency this whole debacle grants to the extremist, out-of-touch leftist agenda.
Overall, I’d say this is a win for grown ups. I really don’t want “them” to stop, or even slow down. “They” are self-imploding. I look at this ad campaign and all the reactions as an opportunity to grab some popcorn and watch the predicted end of the show we’ve all been subjected to for the past too many years.
Lesson number 62,979,636 why Trump is President. IOW, Americans are tired of “them”.
Just like the “What Do I Tell My Daughter?” commercial that Volkswagen put out. That one got the exact same reception.
Correction: it was Audi not Volkswagen.
Volkswagen SHOULD HAVE gone ahead and aired this commercial:
I own ten shaving mugs along with ten brushes and four spare brushes and a merkur double edge safety razor and a supply of forty five packs of double edged blades shipped over from Germany. The top shelf are the brushes and the shelf below holds three mugs and the one below that one holds another three mugs and the other wall holds three more mugs and there is a holder that holds one brush and a mug with a wire loop holding the razor. I tried to copy and paste the pics I have into this comment box but alas as you all know, I am as I’ve said in the past, not computer savvy. Maybe I’ll try on a blank comment box as soon as I hit the post comment button.
Here’s what I get from the #metoo movement:
1. My choices are the only ones that matter. If your choice is different from mine, you are wrong. You must affirm my choices and vilify your own.
2. Bullying is wrong unless I am the bully. Then it’s my choice. See #1.
Actually heard a female friend of a friend bad mouthing a merchant for having called her “baby.” Could not pick up what the issue was, but you would have thought he had assaulted her. She brought it up a couple more times during the day that we spent in the same building for an unrelated event. Yesterday. Of course, she supported bernie, then shillary, open borders, and all that stupid crap.
Ads for women: Be thin, be thick, love your body, your boobs look bigger in this, dye your hair, embrace your grays, these pants are slimming, be feminine, wear makeup, look natural, hide your age…
Women: K.
Gillette: Men should be less shitty.
Men: Don’t tell us what to do!
I think you inadvertently made the opposite point. Rather than attack the multi-billion dollar fashion and beauty industries, attack men for “women’s issues”.
Now, if you say the fashion, beauty and advertising industries are male dominated and misogynistic, you’d have a point.
It’s important to note most real women, those of us who aren’t programmed to be perpetual victims or who generally grew up, who are also tired of attacking men, crying misogyny and being told we are victims, i.e., powerless. Do you not understand that buying into this rhetoric reinforces the victim-status, i.e., powerlessness of women? Do you not see the inherent irony in the #metoo nonsense? Do you not know that everyone over the age of 40 or so reads that meme as “pound me too”?
If it is “masculine”, or even “toxically masculine” to object to all of this, then count me as a proudly masculine woman. If that is toxic to you, I’m sure a facial and new mascara will set your world right.
Real men are afraid of real women. One tear and we are owned. One special look and we are owned. We can talk some serious crud but the truth is that it’s “Yes, dear” and “Would now be too soon for me to take care of that?”
Let me rephrase that first line to read, “Real men are deferential to real women.” Real men aren’t truly afraid of real women. (I’m digging hard and the hole is getting deeper.)
Never com-plain, never ex-plain
It’s okay Air Cav if you’ve forgotten the theory of holes, rule one…
stop digging. /s
I should have said I am not The Volatile Mermaid, but that is what she tweeted.
Interesting how she thinks about it.
My bad, but understand you took that screen name.
Apologies for flaming you. As the regulars here can attest, that is generally not my style.
“Real men loves them some Denise Williams” There, Cav fixed it 4 you/us.
Can you see the real me can you, can you?
There should be way yonder more Denise Williams in the world and way yonder less Volatile Mermaids.
Keep in mind, a real man would charge thru the gates of heel with a water pistol, fight like hell till hell froze over, then continue to fight on the ice for a Denise Williams.
The other type; a real man would pee gasoline on her while she is burning in hell.
No, it’s not…at all. However, I will say that if I ever cross you, I’m headin’ for the hills but quick.
I forgot to mention that back in the early 1970’S I used to wet shave with one mug and one brush and I used three hollow ground stainless steel straight razors. With hollow ground razors, the blade and heel were laid flat on the stone so both wore evenly and the blade stayed sharp and even. Leather strop was two sided. Stone was a dubleduk stone along with the leather strop conditioner.
You shaved in the 70’s? You must have been the only one. 😉 You probably didn’t drive a van with a quadraphonic either.
@Mason;
I started working for Brink’s from 1970-2007 on the trucks and beards/large handlebar mustaches were a no no at the time that I left.
I think I did know that about you. Just had to give you some shit. I’ll give you that driving an armored truck filled with a million dollars is cooler than a van no matter the sound system or bumper stickers.
Whats cooler is coming into work hung over and make a bed from the loaded Fed currency bags in the back and sack out for the day while the two other crew members take up the slack and do the route.
Cool points up in the 10 digit range!
This is what we get in the advertising departments of major corporations when they hire bints and cucks with Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies degrees. Millennials and the more recent generations have been completely proglodyzed with this kind of horseshit.
Hey folks.
To all the posters who’ve said they won’t be buying Gillette any more? Please do a favor and contact Gillette (and maybe P&G as well) and tell them so… and why. Otherwise it’s too easy to just write off the customer dip.
They will know quickly. Plus, I bet they they have people who suck websites for review when Gillette is mentioned X number of times or more. Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette Gillette
The return on that disaster has reached Gillette. If the objective was to have consumers talk ill of the company–as in any publicity is good publicity–then the company succeeded. If the goal was to increase sales, um, that may be a problem.
I quit them a few weeks back, their replacement blades were so high I just decided not to pay their randsom for them. I now shave with a Blade called ‘Henry’ that I found at Wally World.
That being said I feel I’m ‘manly’ I live in the Country, have been in the Military,17 years, (medical discharge) am now 100% disabled, but try to carry my own weight in matters. So, those metoo twits mean nothing to me, seems they affect the wussy city wanna be ‘men’ who cow tow to public opinion, I follow my own opinion
My Boy Scout Troop was 310, from Allegheny County, PA… a long way from home but it is as it was. The Scout Masters and all of the assistants were either WWII or Korean vets but mainly WWII. Those guys could do anything, everything and their “toxic masculinity” remains with me more than 50 years later. Not one of them wore a beard. I could hardly wait to graduate from high school so I could wear a beard.
I was actually suspended from high school for having side burns that were too long, like Elvis Presley’s!
These days, I shave in the summer and stay warm in the winter. Bless her heart, Betsy does too 🙂
Does anyone remember if it was gillette that bought the USS Franklin for scrap when it was berthed at the D&S piers at Norfolk NOB on the other side of the pier 4 Geedunck stand around 1963-1966????
My Dad, God rest his soul, was a child of the Great Depression, served in WW2 in the Merchant Marine in which he made 22 convoy runs across the North Atlantic, dodging Hitler’s wolf packs. I miss him more than you could imagine, but I’m truly glad he did not live to see our society turn into such a shit show. Rest well Dad, you’re not missing a thing.
Ditto on those last two lines. The 60s damn near killed my Dad and the 70s most certainly did. He and I were both born in the wrong centuries.
Just imagine what Gillette has in store for the Super Bowl. I’ll bet their ad team is scrambling to come up with something other than what they already have in the can.
Or worse.
Maybe we’ll see the CEO slit his own throat.
He just might over this:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/gillettes-razor-and-occams.php
Would like to hear from Gillette what customer base they thought they would gain from this mess. It should have been obvious that they would no longer have customers among all those they labeled as toxic males, so how were they planning to remain in business? Or maybe they really think that none of their previous customers could read. Or know how to use computers.
Incredibly stupid move.
Toxic feminists, once again blurring the line between masculinity and misogyny.