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Aristus

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10. This sounds an awful lot like "Supporting HIV-positive patients means you hate cancer patients!"

Reply to ZX86 (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 18, 2019, 11:35 AM

Jan 2019

No.

It's just a message apropos of and specific to an important cultural problem right now.

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The best thing about these big companies doing "woke" ads... [View all] ehrnst Jan 2019 OP

Yep. Gillette is a massive company and wouldn't have done this without exhausting market research. bearsfootball516 Jan 2019 #1

Neck-beards don't use razors. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2019 #8

Excuse me cannabis_flower Jan 2019 #47

Here you go. area51 Jan 2019 #51

That's what has the right so pissed off? Flaleftist Jan 2019 #55

Not just the "right" as this thread shows... (nt) ehrnst Jan 2019 #72

Apparently we are a big tent without a purity litmus test... nt uriel1972 Jan 2019 #79

I've always used Schick razors but will now give Gillette a try. justhanginon Jan 2019 #2

Disagree. ZX86 Jan 2019 #3

You can provide us with the objective numbers LanternWaste Jan 2019 #4

Beyond Youtube Like/Dislike? ZX86 Jan 2019 #11

Post removed Post removed Jan 2019 #27

Getting stabbed 19 times or being driven to suicide is not being catty. ZX86 Jan 2019 #48

Dismissing toxic masculinity as "made up" is just as bad as saying ehrnst Jan 2019 #67

Toxicity is not exclusive to males. ZX86 Jan 2019 #69

And racism isn't exclusive to police officers. ehrnst Jan 2019 #71

If you really want to debate a right winger I suggest you find one. ZX86 Jan 2019 #80

First of all... uriel1972 Jan 2019 #75

On your last sentence about harassing people....have you watched the trump rallies? MLAA Jan 2019 #49

Not really. ZX86 Jan 2019 #53

The anger and defensiveness at men being told that there is toxic masculinity in our culture ehrnst Jan 2019 #63

Post removed Post removed Jan 2019 #73

Incel much? uriel1972 Jan 2019 #76

OMG are you now going into INCEL territory? MrsCoffee Jan 2019 #77

Well now, there we have it. ehrnst Jan 2019 #81

So you're saying that this ad "discriminates against men?" ehrnst Jan 2019 #5

Straw man. ZX86 Jan 2019 #12

Your post certainly sounded like it. That list of tropes was pretty well thought out. (nt) ehrnst Jan 2019 #14

If you really are concerned with harassment ZX86 Jan 2019 #22

You mean like "All Lives Matter?" ehrnst Jan 2019 #24

If you believe all men as a class harass women you might have a point. ZX86 Jan 2019 #50

Strawman... Also known as "Not all men." ehrnst Jan 2019 #54

My post really gets under your skin doesn't? ZX86 Jan 2019 #68

The very concept of "Toxic Masculinity" sets you off, doesn't it? ehrnst Jan 2019 #78

Then why the listing of MRA tropes and whataboutism? obamanut2012 Jan 2019 #23

I don't know what the MRA tropes are. ZX86 Jan 2019 #58

They're the very ones you listed. ehrnst Jan 2019 #61

Are you an MRA? ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #65

If you don't want to be considered an MRA, don't throw all their talking points around. MrsCoffee Jan 2019 #70

yes, they are saying that -- it is whataboutism obamanut2012 Jan 2019 #21

Are you an MRA? ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #7

Why? Because I don't like seeing Black men told they can do better ZX86 Jan 2019 #13

So you're comparing this ad with black people being whitesplained by a corporation? ehrnst Jan 2019 #16

I see a White dominated coporation ZX86 Jan 2019 #26

An overabundance of black men? Which commercial are you watching? WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2019 #28

So you're saying that Gillette is a woman-dominated corporation? ehrnst Jan 2019 #32

lulz obamanut2012 Jan 2019 #25

Are you an MRA? ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #31

LMAOOOOOOOOO. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2019 #9

This sounds an awful lot like "Supporting HIV-positive patients means you hate cancer patients!" Aristus Jan 2019 #10

Harassment is not gender specific. ZX86 Jan 2019 #15

The commercial wasn't about harassment. It was about toxic masculinity, which sometimes expresses WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2019 #17

Toxic masculinity is a made up word. ZX86 Jan 2019 #33

You mean like "police brutality" or "white privilege" "rape culture?" ehrnst Jan 2019 #34

White Women CAN do better ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #37

It's not a word. It's two. And that's not just nitpicking; it shows why you don't understand muriel_volestrangler Jan 2019 #39

It's not, actually. It's two words put together to describe a concept we are only now beginning WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2019 #41

Aw. NurseJackie Jan 2019 #82

This is beginning to sound very much like "Not All Men" or "All Lives Matter." ehrnst Jan 2019 #18

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2019 #30

Not at all. It's the oppposite. ZX86 Jan 2019 #36

Not at all. It's the opposite. ehrnst Jan 2019 #57

Toxic masculinity is indeed gender specific... and if you want to get angry at an ad that calls it ehrnst Jan 2019 #19

Oh poor little MRA Snowflakes got feefee hurt? uriel1972 Jan 2019 #60

whataboutism about an ad that denounes bullying and violence obamanut2012 Jan 2019 #20

Hyperbole much? ZX86 Jan 2019 #38

It's a diagnosis gratuitous Jan 2019 #43

You feel it is a made up concept, not a made up word. ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #46

That's just silly. Is "systemic racism" also a "made up word" because nobody "heard it" until ehrnst Jan 2019 #59

All lives matter ... Hunh?!! uponit7771 Jan 2019 #29

Straw man. ZX86 Jan 2019 #44

Your attitude is to this ad is like "All lives matter" is to "Black Lives Matter" ehrnst Jan 2019 #64

You should smile more... tenderfoot Jan 2019 #74

K&R ismnotwasm Jan 2019 #6

If you are offended by that Gillette ad, it's because you fail to get the point of it. Initech Jan 2019 #35

The point of the ad is obivious. ZX86 Jan 2019 #40

I was referring to the people who are throwing their razors in the toilet. Initech Jan 2019 #42

Oh that's just silly. ZX86 Jan 2019 #45

So far Trump fans have destroyed: Initech Jan 2019 #52

Opposition to an ad that points out toxic masculinity is ehrnst Jan 2019 #56

They don't acknowledge... uriel1972 Jan 2019 #62

I don't know Shannon Campbell from a bar of soap... uriel1972 Jan 2019 #66