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P&G Challenges Men to Shave Their ‘Toxic Masculinity’ in Gillette Ad

Females are mad at Gillette and accusing them as being just as bad. How dare they have a pink razor called Venus targeted at women. Then charging more for those razors (though there is likely a valid reason)? Sexist.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6595131/Now-women-say-Gillette-sexist-too.html

Women who use Gillette products have blasted the shaving company for sexism for marketing pink razors called Venus to female users - just hours after its campaign to tackle 'toxic masculinity' divided the nation.

Consumers blasted the global company and accused it of double standards over its branding which include the Passion and Embrace range.
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buck said:
According to the commercial, you can't even see a pretty girl and go to try to talk to her and get to know her.
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Were did you see that? I saw the part about no cat calling but didn't see anything close to what you are implying
 
Chillfolks said:
Were did you see that? I saw the part about no cat calling but didn't see anything close to what you are implying
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White guy sees a pretty girl walk by, he starts to walk after her and is stopped by the black man. BTW, can you imagine the backlash had it been reversed? You know they were very careful not to show the black man trying to go talk to the girl.

But, basically, I don't want to be lectured at by a company. They don't care and are only pretending to care, so they can connect with the millennials that are (apparently) looking for this tripe from companies they do business with. I really hope this fails as an advertisement, so that we don't to get lectures from companies for a long while.

Edit: just re-watched the video, and (I believe) that all the guys dong the wrong thing are white. The black men are all shown doing right or stopping the white man from doing wrong. They certainly were careful not to be accused of being racist.
 
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Roadvirus said:
I will admit that it is how at least I interpreted this.
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Yyyeaaahhh that's not what it means.

But this explains the general conservative reaction to the phrase. They think this is calling out being a man as being inherently bad, or something. And of course they'd interpret it that way, right wing media is inundating them with this sentiment.

I'll give a low-hanging-fruit example: picture the loudest, most obnoxious, most stereotypical chest-thumpiing frat bro you can conjure up. He screams "****ING *****" at anyone who refuses to drink that seventeenth beer. And god help you if you dare enjoy a "girly" drink. He thinks whacking people in the nuts is hilarious hijinks. He thinks he's being manly. That's an example of severe toxic masculinity.

Now, this is just an obvious, outward example. There's a lot more subtle variations. Like the notion that "real men" don't do that "parenting" thing, or that they're unsuited to it. Particularly single parenting, so that the children should naturally be with the mother. That's for the women to do. It's a deeply harmful sentiment.
 
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buck said:
According to the commercial, you can't even see a pretty girl and go to try to talk to her and get to know her.
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You watched a different ****in commercial
 
Deuce said:
You watched a different ****in commercial
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Actually I don't think he did. I know the part he is referencing. His buddy stops him from cat.calling a passing female but because of the way it is edited it does appear he is being stopped from simply noticing an attractive female. They should of cut some of the guys grilling scenes and included the cat call to clarify their point. It's a poor editing job.

Either way I'm still not buying their overpriced razors
 
Chillfolks said:
Actually I don't think he did. I know the part he is referencing. His buddy stops him from cat.calling a passing female but because of the way it is edited it does appear he is being stopped from simply noticing an attractive female. They should of cut some of the guys grilling scenes and included the cat call to clarify their point. It's a poor editing job.

Either way I'm still not buying their overpriced razors
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Bag of 20 for six bucks from CVS is more my style.
 
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