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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGillette ad takes on 'toxic masculinity' in #MeToo-era rebrand, provoking a backlash
For three decades, Gillette promised its customers The Best a Man Can Get.
An individual. Acquisitive. Assertive. And always clean-shaven.
This was the vision of masculinity depicted in an ad campaign that debuted in January 1989 during Super Bowl XXIII. The early days of the George H.W. Bush administration and the end stage of the Cold War, it was the year of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Promoting Gillettes top-of-the-line Atra razor, the 60-second spot portrayed variations on a single theme: a white man scoring, whether at the office, on an athletic field or with a woman. The one specific location it invoked was Wall Street, the arena of the ultimate alpha male.
Now, Procter & Gamble, the maker of Gillette, is out with a new ad, We Believe, that challenges the image of masculinity it once promoted. The consumer goods company, whose net sales totaled $66.8 billion last year, has ignited a debate about gender and cultural branding, as well as about the power exercised by multinational corporations in shaping evolving ideas about family and relationships in the #MeToo era.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/newsfeature/gillette-ad-takes-on-toxic-masculinity-in-supernumbermetoo-era-rebrand-provoking-a-backlash/ar-BBSgSq8?li=BBnb7Kz
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Gillette ad takes on 'toxic masculinity' in #MeToo-era rebrand, provoking a backlash (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Jan 2019
OP
Nothing triggers broflakes more than equality distilled down into something they understand.
LanternWaste
Jan 2019
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cynatnite
(31,011 posts)1. What a great commercial!
*sniff*
frazzled
(18,402 posts)2. Is this a TV ad, or just an Internet spot?
I doubt it's the former, at nearly two minutes (unless it's for the SuperBowl). And if for the Internet only, the outrage is typical: Fox and Friends seeks out such stuff to incite their audience, who rush out to post "war on masculinity" drivel on the site.
area51
(11,944 posts)3. The frightened republican haters are downvoting this video copy also. n/t
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)4. Excellent!!! n/t
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)5. Nothing triggers broflakes more than equality distilled down into something they understand.
Because once understood, they're forced to realize the absurdity of the half-witted MRA positions they take.
They can of course, take solace in the next Sports Illustrated bikini issue as they wait for their dates to buffer.