[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

It currently has 23,000 likes and 214,000 dislikes, at time of writing - and that's increasing all the timeo youtube

Sometimes I have to hear stuff like this to remind myself how skewed the opinion on this forum is, and how little it compares with real life.

[Smithy]

Maybe update the title to “Snowflakes upset by tv advert”

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Alf

No it's not that bad. It's very accurate.

We all know men who just stand around at a barbecue and watch 2 children have a fight and instead of breaking it up they just smile and say boys will be boys.

Yay for **** parenting?

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

What are you talking about arr Marsh is rugged. Butch. Some have even said macho.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

he buys his own razors

Modern legend.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Modern legend.

[Northern Monkey]

Youtube video

[Livia]

I'm sure all the males on this forum are happy to have the marketing department of multinational conglomerate Proctor & Gamble, advise them on what it means to be a man. I mean, most men I've met, with very few exceptions, have already known how to behave.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Livia

I'm sure all the males on this forum are happy to have the marketing department of multinational conglomerate Proctor & Gamble, advise them on what it means to be a man. I mean, most men I've met, with very few exceptions, have already known how to behave.

Yeah i’m so glad that ad came out.I honestly don’t know how i’d have stopped shouting at women in the street and teaching my kids toxic masculinity without it.
Guess that’s the annual kids burgers and boxing BBQ event cancelled this year.

Gillette fecked up there.
Imagine a load of men making a commercial public service announcement ‘mansplaining’ to women how they should be behaving.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

I'm sure all the males on this forum are happy to have the marketing department of multinational conglomerate Proctor & Gamble, advise them on what it means to be a man. I mean, most men I've met, with very few exceptions, have already known how to behave.

Depends if you take television that literally.

Does anyone with their right mind pay attention to what TV tells you is sexy, beautiful, normal, good, bad, rational etc?

[Tom4784]

There was nothing wrong with the Gilette ad. It's just a case of a loud minority having a mass tantrum and looking for an excuse to go 'grrr feminism!'.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

There was nothing wrong with the Gilette ad. It's just a case of a loud minority having a mass tantrum and looking for an excuse to go 'grrr feminism!'.

Well... it's also a huge multinational company cynically exploiting and inflaming an important and already very sensitive issue to sell bathroom products and improve their bottom line. It's not just about the meninism / feminism angle here.

I mean if anyone could even vaguely convince me that the company gives a **** about men's image or women's rights or MeToo or anything other than their juicy bonus cheques that would be another matter. As it is it's hollow capitalism at its worst.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Well... it's also a huge multinational company cynically exploiting and inflaming an important and already very sensitive issue to sell bathroom products and improve their bottom line. It's not just about the meninism / feminism angle here.

I mean if anyone could even vaguely convince me that the company gives a **** about men's image or women's rights or MeToo or anything other than their juicy bonus cheques that would be another matter. As it is it's hollow capitalism at its worst.

Of course it is because it's only the Men's Right idiots that have made this into a story. The ad would have passed the rest of the world by without nary a care were it not for those pathetic little people and their baby rages.

Loads of companies 'take on causes' for the benefit of profit, the only reason so many of them support charities in the first place is for the financial benefits. It's an accepted part of business, it's hollow but it's harmless.

[Ant.]

I can nearly always see the other side of the story but I just failed to see how it was in any way "man-hating"

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Of course it is because it's only the Men's Right idiots that have made this into a story. The ad would have passed the rest of the world by without nary a care were it not for those pathetic little people and their baby rages.

Loads of companies 'take on causes' for the benefit of profit, the only reason so many of them support charities in the first place is for the financial benefits. It's an accepted part of business, it's hollow but it's harmless.

You can't really say "it's harmless so long as thick people don't kick off" though... if it's harmful it's harmful. The reasons don't really matter, this entire spectacle is damaging to both the brand and to the cause they are pretending to support because things like this generate backlash. As is often the case; we can't live as though the world is as we wish it was... or as if people we know do exist, don't exist. Whether or not it SHOULD be harmful has little to do with whether or not it IS harmful, and making excuses for large companies making blunders like this on the grounds that "it's just millions of people being babies" isn't helpful, even when it's accurate.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Livia

I'm sure all the males on this forum are happy to have the marketing department of multinational conglomerate Proctor & Gamble, advise them on what it means to be a man. I mean, most men I've met, with very few exceptions, have already known how to behave.

Exactly , who do these people think we are, cavemen?

Probably some daft bird about to go on maternity doing it out of spite

[Livia]

SO long as we all remember it was the marketing department of Proctor and Gamble that made this ad. It's marketing, not a public service announcement.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Exactly , who do these people think we are, cavemen?

Probably some daft bird about to go on maternity doing it out of spite

LOL...

I remember the comedian Rita Rudner saying, if she ever goes into labour, she wants her husband on the next bed at least having his legs waxed. True equality, that is....

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Exactly , who do these people think we are, cavemen?

Probably some daft bird about to go on maternity doing it out of spite

To be fair to the ladies LT I'd be VERY surprised if this ad wasn't suggested by a man.

[Matthew.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Maybe update the title to “Snowflakes upset by tv advert”

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't see how it's man hating?

Some could argue it's a bit OTT for a Gillette ad , but i've watched plenty of ads that beat around the bush and you even forget what they're advertising until the logo pops up at the end .

I guess it's also interpretation , is it just trying to show something positive in the end ? or is it just latching onto another agenda .

[Crimson Dynamo]

The aim is to get you to buy their very overpriced razors. They have no other aim motive or morality

[Marsh.]

Oh no, an advert stating the obvious "acting like a prick makes you a prick".

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Exactly , who do these people think we are, cavemen?

Probably some daft bird about to go on maternity doing it out of spite

you don't know that so stop reaching and leave women on maternity alone
unless you successfully manage to shit a whole coconut sideways and then you can talk

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

you don't know that so stop reaching and leave women on maternity alone
unless you successfully manage to shit a whole coconut sideways and then you can talk

TS understanding labour so well, 10pts young man!