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Gillette’s inspiring new ad addressing toxic masculinity asks: “Is this the best a man can get?”
- Thread starter MouldyK
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I thought leftists were the ones offended by everything.
You can say it has a... wicked edge.
You can say it has a... wicked edge.
Ditto. I got thrown off by those Tweets for a minute. I like that one person who kept using the word "damn" like they were Shadow the Hedgehog. And by "like," I mean "almost pity."
There's a lot to like about the ad and its message, or discuss the ironic rage against the ad, but I want to point out my guy acting up a storm--
yea, whatever ppl think of the message, the ad itself is very well put together and effective
Same.
Not going to credit a corporation for playing the PR game, but it's a nice sentiment, I guess.
"Be a man of integrity and conscious" obviously is a message that makes people lose their shit. It's because they have no capacity to remove themselves from the actions that they've taken throughout their lives and be better. That introspection never manifests as active self loathing in these people like it does with those of us with empathy, which is why they create elaborate fantasies with enemies that are coming to put them in the gulags because it's their own subconscious method of creating a comeuppance for their lifetime of being a monstrous individual who's done nothing but make the world a more shit place to live.
To reflect on that sentiment and grow is anathema to how they've live their entire lives, where being a man meant being powerful based on arbitrary bullshit.
To reflect on that sentiment and grow is anathema to how they've live their entire lives, where being a man meant being powerful based on arbitrary bullshit.
Goddamn this video lmao
"People are very traumatized if you suggest that they should make do without something."
That's not trauma, lady, jfc
Good ad.
So these goods throwing a fit and virtue signaling to their conservative buds fear literally any change, even those we all can agree would be for the best, eh?
So these goods throwing a fit and virtue signaling to their conservative buds fear literally any change, even those we all can agree would be for the best, eh?
shit, dove's been doing this for 15 years and people still fall for it.
like, they're promising to donate ~.015% of their yearly sales to charity and "promote positive images of men in their ads". ok. in order for that to make any difference whatsoever, people have to... watch their ads. that's the point here. not "an end to toxic masculinity", not donating to charity. the point is you, watching their ads, and feeling like they're "supporting the good guys" so you buy their product.
if they found out 18-34y/o men and women were actually enormous racists, they'd be out here making ads saying HERE AT GILLETTE, WE WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE PRESIDENT TRUMP TO PUT GILLETTE™ BRAND RAZOR BLADES ON TOP OF HIS BIG, BEAUTIFUL WALL
like, they're promising to donate ~.015% of their yearly sales to charity and "promote positive images of men in their ads". ok. in order for that to make any difference whatsoever, people have to... watch their ads. that's the point here. not "an end to toxic masculinity", not donating to charity. the point is you, watching their ads, and feeling like they're "supporting the good guys" so you buy their product.
if they found out 18-34y/o men and women were actually enormous racists, they'd be out here making ads saying HERE AT GILLETTE, WE WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE PRESIDENT TRUMP TO PUT GILLETTE™ BRAND RAZOR BLADES ON TOP OF HIS BIG, BEAUTIFUL WALL
good message but i knew it would be disliked to hell and back and even then i still got surprised at how lopsided it was. are there bots out there that down vote videos their creators don't like? with that said i can't say i'm gonna buy their razors since they are too expensive for me. although i do buy their shaving cream.
I'm not gonna compliment you until you announce a new Unreal Tournament, Cliffy.
Oh look gaming youtube is now getting involved.
*looks outside to see if hell has frozen over, nope just another regular day.
Cool message even though it's all marketing. Conservatives sure get mad when it's suggested that one shouldn't treat others like shit. Have any of their boycotts affected shit?
Well, I'm just cynical enough to be wary of this coming from a corporate platform, but I do think the message is great and the delivery of the message is great.
But then I read the internet's negative responses and the hardcore defense mechanisms people put up for their negative response and ouch, it hurts.
I get that there's a hilarious irony in it, and I am kind of laughing, but boy am I dying inside pretty hard, too.
But then I read the internet's negative responses and the hardcore defense mechanisms people put up for their negative response and ouch, it hurts.
I get that there's a hilarious irony in it, and I am kind of laughing, but boy am I dying inside pretty hard, too.
Why are those wanna be alpha males using Gilette anyway. Shouldn't these manly men™ use straight edge razors since that's what people used back in that mythical time when men were still men instead of those pansy-ass multi blade razors?
/s if that's not obvious
The salty reactions reminds me of all those people who go out of their way to eat a steak whenever they read that someone is going vegetarian or vegan.
He left Epic like 7 years ago lmao. And they did announce a new UT, but no one gave a fuck once Fortnite started happening.
As depressing as it is to see the vitirol, at least if corporations are willing to piss people off with these kinds of ads (Gillette, Nike, etc) it means that that is the future and the that public opinion is shifting.
mmm.... who's looking for any reason to be offended again?
I understand it's just an ad, but seriously we men can do better as a whole.
I understand it's just an ad, but seriously we men can do better as a whole.
I feel like those offended by this are fucking programmed to just see keywords that seem tied to the left and thus go apeshit. Like, the whole context of the ad being, "Lets be better and work on our image fellow men." and these people just feel like SO ATTACKED.