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In reply to the discussion: The best thing about these big companies doing "woke" ads... [View all]ZX86
(1,428 posts)22. If you really are concerned with harassment
you concerned with all harassment. You don't pick and choose which harassment is problematic.
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Yep. Gillette is a massive company and wouldn't have done this without exhausting market research.
bearsfootball516
Jan 2019
#1
On your last sentence about harassing people....have you watched the trump rallies?
MLAA
Jan 2019
#49
The anger and defensiveness at men being told that there is toxic masculinity in our culture
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#63
Your post certainly sounded like it. That list of tropes was pretty well thought out. (nt)
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#14
If you don't want to be considered an MRA, don't throw all their talking points around.
MrsCoffee
Jan 2019
#70
So you're comparing this ad with black people being whitesplained by a corporation?
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#16
This sounds an awful lot like "Supporting HIV-positive patients means you hate cancer patients!"
Aristus
Jan 2019
#10
The commercial wasn't about harassment. It was about toxic masculinity, which sometimes expresses
WhiskeyGrinder
Jan 2019
#17
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
Toxic masculinity is indeed gender specific... and if you want to get angry at an ad that calls it
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#19
That's just silly. Is "systemic racism" also a "made up word" because nobody "heard it" until
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#59
Your attitude is to this ad is like "All lives matter" is to "Black Lives Matter"
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#64