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Gilette Anti-Male Ad

Good, positive commercial.
 
I suppose the question is, why do some associate masculinity with bullying, sexual harassment, and demeaning women to such a degree that when an ad says a man can do better than that they're triggered?
 
Gender Wars!!!!

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I don't mind this commercial, I think it's encouraging our maturity. It's not anti male because there are men encouraging other men not to do stupid ****.
 
Gender Wars!!!!

You're the one so keen on fighting them. Well, unless the point of the sixth or whatever thread on the same topic was just to stir the pot further....
 
Well ****.

At least Joe Rogan agrees with me

 
Seems a lot of boys be triggered over an ad asking them to be men.

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Gillete Man Hating Commercial made by possible Femanist

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ettes-controversial-toxic-masculinity-ad.html

The director behind Gillette's controversial new ad is a woman whose past work includes an ode to female genitals and a short film that explores 'toxic masculinity' featuring a protagonist whose life crumbles when he becomes addicted to steroids.

The Gillette ad, called 'We Believe: The Best Men Can Be', takes aim at bullying and sexual harassment and has been viewed more than four million times on YouTube around the world, although it is only being shown fully in the U.S.

But while it has amassed 85,000 likes, it has also racked up 347,000 dislikes with some of the 98,657 comments below accusing it of being 'anti-male and anti-white' and of 'spreading pure propaganda and indoctrination.'

Kim Gehrig, the director of the new ad, is an Australian mother-of-two who lives in London, England, and has a lengthy history of taking aim at social ills through her work.

Dayam. Looks like I was accidentally correct.
 


To be fair I think most American kids arent even raised by their dad nowdays...

IMAGINE A VENUS AD:
A female teacher is eying the high school football team and calls in a jock for “extra tutoring”. Another teacher interrupts her saying “Not cool”. The voiceover comes on : “SOME women are already the best of women.. but some is not enough.”


Next scene is a woman threatening to abort her unborn child simply to emotionally manipulate her lover. The nurse walks in and shakes her head in disappointment.


I saw men solving their own problems, pulling themselves up. How is that anti-male?

And really crass of you to say that most boys are not raised by their fathers. Millions of devoted dads would disagree, even feel insulted by that.

Besides, were any of the bits showing men misbehaving false?
 
Ya.. it definately portrayed males as being assholes and totally ignores women, who are usually way more hissypissier and gossiping and workplace bullies.

It definitely has the sense of "guys can be assholes, so please lets try harder."

Its more of a shaming commercial than a commercial with a story lesson built in.

I think you need some cheese to go with that whine. Poor little you, women are so mean! Grow a pair, man!

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ill stop complaining when i see a venus razor commercial against women bullies who specialize in emotional manipulation

That sounds personal. I don't think it's a common complaint from most men.
 
Grow a beard like the Neanderthals before modern men did.
 
Then why do they have every dad lined up in the world chanting "Ehhh boys will be boys!" They are attacking the common average man. Well not really attacking... But shaming. Which is a micro-agression!

The message is that there's no logic in repeating a thing as if it's true or good just because it's a common saying.
 
no that happens AFTER the chanters. (especially doubly so because its a short story. and the ONE dad breaking up a fight happens AFTER the huge chant of every dad in the world going "ehhh boys will be boys" and shrugging off huge insults and bullying) As in "be a resolution to the huge toxic masculinity that exists in our world" Which is one weird ****in awkward way to sell ****.

Its a toxic feminist commercial.

If that's your take away, then to each his own.
 
And to think the people incensed about this are generally the people who regularly claim that it's "the left" that overreacts all the time.


It's a commercial. If you're somehow threatened by it, you might want to meditate on what you mean by manliness in the first place.
 
And to think the people incensed about this are generally the people who regularly claim that it's "the left" that overreacts all the time.


It's a commercial. If you're somehow threatened by it, you might want to meditate on what you mean by manliness in the first place.

You should watch the parody video instead of passive aggressively jabbing. Its hilarious.



And if that doesnt make you laugh then you should grab a Sniggers bar.

 


To be fair I think most American kids arent even raised by their dad nowdays...

IMAGINE A VENUS AD:
A female teacher is eying the high school football team and calls in a jock for “extra tutoring”. Another teacher interrupts her saying “Not cool”. The voiceover comes on : “SOME women are already the best of women.. but some is not enough.”


Next scene is a woman threatening to abort her unborn child simply to emotionally manipulate her lover. The nurse walks in and shakes her head in disappointment.


It's not anti-male, it's supposed to be about confronting "toxic masculinity", a recently invented rhetorical box where everything negative about male dominance can be neatly stored. I agree with you that there are some toxic feminine habits that could also be confronted but are unlikely to make a commercial. That being said, men are doing most of the killing and raping on this planet. We could use a bit of introspection.

This video, however, and much of the conversation I hear from those who advocate from a perspective of victimhood, risks straddling the line between genuine advocacy and that advocacy becoming a sort of bigotry of its own. And, when corporations -entities whose primary mission is profits- start scolding us for being imperfect humans, it sounds a bit insulting.

Let's not forget that who we are is the product of evolution and we rarely succeed in effectively confronting our animal nature. Just like the religious and political figures who have been publicly embarrassed when they were discovered to lead secret sexual lives, the average human man or woman can only pretend not to be attracted to someone to a degree. We can only suppress our dislike of some people to a point. We are not, by default, kind. Our drives were evolved to give us the best chance of survival, not to follow a book of etiquette. As such, we are aggressive and self-serving in many ways and that means there are often victims. That reality used to be assumed but today we're trying to get past that and it's difficult.

Change is too slow, I admit it. I wonder, though, if the answer is for corporate sanctimony and an indignation that too often smells like generalized hatred itself. There are certainly monsters out there but it's not the average man. The average man is imperfect but trying to be better. I'm not sure the message of the video appreciates that.
 
Maybe if their female razors cost as much as the male ones, I would believe this ad. Instead the price is always higher. I have more than one female friend who uses the Mach 3 razor for leg shaving because they're cheaper and last longer.

What I found distasteful about the ad is that they are using the #metoo movement to up their PR game to turn a profit. Everything in America now is politicized, even buying shaving razors it seems.

What next, children's cereal?

It doesn't matter if you're for or against the ad. As long as you're talking about it, Gilette's winning.
 
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