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That's easily the best r/Drama thread of the year so far.
Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging
- Thread starter José Mourinho
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They should pull out along with their money and political influence. Leave these shrieking babbling troons alone and unfunded.
Zero0
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Gillete goes woke?
Thirty years ago, we launched our The Best A Man Can Get tagline.
Since then, it has been an aspirational statement, reflecting standards that many men strive to achieve.
But turn on the news today and it’s easy to believe that men are not at their best. Many find themselves at a crossroads, caught between the past and a new era of masculinity. While it is clear that changes are needed, where and how we can start to effect that change is less obvious for many. And when the changes needed seem so monumental, it can feel daunting to begin. So, let’s do it together.
It’s time we acknowledge that brands, like ours, play a role in influencing culture. And as a company that encourages men to be their best, we have a responsibility to make sure we are promoting positive, attainable, inclusive and healthy versions of what it means to be a man. With that in mind, we have spent the last few months taking a hard look at our past and coming communication and reflecting on the types of men and behaviors we want to celebrate. We’re inviting all men along this journey with us – to strive to be better, to make us better, and to help each other be better.
From today on, we pledge to actively challenge the stereotypes and expectations of what it means to be a man everywhere you see Gillette. In the ads we run, the images we publish to social media, the words we choose, and so much more.
As part of The Best Men Can Be campaign, Gillette is committing to donate $1 million per year for the next three years to non-profit organizations executing programs in the United States designed to inspire, educate and help men of all ages achieve their personal “best” and become role models for the next generation.
Our tagline needs to continue to inspire us all to be better every day, and to help create a new standard for boys to admire and for men to achieve… Because the boys of today are the men of tomorrow.
Thirty years ago, we launched our The Best A Man Can Get tagline.
Since then, it has been an aspirational statement, reflecting standards that many men strive to achieve.
But turn on the news today and it’s easy to believe that men are not at their best. Many find themselves at a crossroads, caught between the past and a new era of masculinity. While it is clear that changes are needed, where and how we can start to effect that change is less obvious for many. And when the changes needed seem so monumental, it can feel daunting to begin. So, let’s do it together.
It’s time we acknowledge that brands, like ours, play a role in influencing culture. And as a company that encourages men to be their best, we have a responsibility to make sure we are promoting positive, attainable, inclusive and healthy versions of what it means to be a man. With that in mind, we have spent the last few months taking a hard look at our past and coming communication and reflecting on the types of men and behaviors we want to celebrate. We’re inviting all men along this journey with us – to strive to be better, to make us better, and to help each other be better.
From today on, we pledge to actively challenge the stereotypes and expectations of what it means to be a man everywhere you see Gillette. In the ads we run, the images we publish to social media, the words we choose, and so much more.
As part of The Best Men Can Be campaign, Gillette is committing to donate $1 million per year for the next three years to non-profit organizations executing programs in the United States designed to inspire, educate and help men of all ages achieve their personal “best” and become role models for the next generation.
Our tagline needs to continue to inspire us all to be better every day, and to help create a new standard for boys to admire and for men to achieve… Because the boys of today are the men of tomorrow.
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Men are taught by our mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Our teachers are women. Our professors are women. We are raised by women while our fathers are driven away or absent or working long hours to provide.
Why are we to blame for how we were raised? Why are we being punished for the sins of our mothers? Why should my sons and brothers suffer at the hands of women for daring to be male?
How long can we take being beat down and attacked on all sides? We have no "men's spaces", no hobby left unmolested by women, no friends in the media. Accusations destroy our lives.
Why are we to blame for how we were raised? Why are we being punished for the sins of our mothers? Why should my sons and brothers suffer at the hands of women for daring to be male?
How long can we take being beat down and attacked on all sides? We have no "men's spaces", no hobby left unmolested by women, no friends in the media. Accusations destroy our lives.
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Gillette said:
I was always under the impression that it meant "our product is the best for men's shaving needs; buy it!" But what do I know, I'm just a girl and stuff.
Have you stopped to consider that maybe the stereotypes of men are actually good? That having expectations of young men helps them develop properly? That an unattainable standard promotes continuous self-improvement and humility? That any definition of "man" must necessarily be exclusive of things that are "not man"?
But what do I know about logic or psychology, I'm just a girl and stuff.
How about you just shut up and make The Best Razors A Man Can Get, and let men be men?
I suppose this should not surprise me, considering that they've been profiting from encouraging men to dispose of one of the things that's unequivocally, undeniably masculine: facial hair.
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we're just replacing all the old stereotypes with new "men are all evil rapists" stereotypes
THIS WILL SURELY MAKE MEN CARE!!
Tanner Glass
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This is targeted at the absolutely manliest of men.
You know - the ones who give a shit what the company who makes razors thinks about manliness.
You know - the ones who give a shit what the company who makes razors thinks about manliness.
Corbin Dallas Multipass
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Gillette: Price fixing razors and pushing out the little guy.
Fuck them and their gay razors. Real men trim their beard (If necessary for manly reasons) with a medieval broadsword or fire.
Fuck them and their gay razors. Real men trim their beard (If necessary for manly reasons) with a medieval broadsword or fire.
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About 80% of my professors were men.
Zero0
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Yeah but there's way more female teachers than male ones, where I'm from anyway. Also what classes they teach is kinda important, a gym teacher probably doesn't have as much impact as a math teacher.
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Gillette adverts were cheesy but I don’t think they extolled toxic masculinity. I mean it was all chisel jawed chaps sailing yachts, excelling at squash and looking broodingly into the middle distance in casual knitware, whilst having their jaw caressed by an attractive woman. Cheesy yes. Toxic no.
I can just see the ad now. Not terribly chisel jawed man steps out of Starbucks and spills his chai soya latte on his vegan leather pumps. A single tear runs down his freshly shaven cheek... ‘Giiiilette...’ etc.
I can just see the ad now. Not terribly chisel jawed man steps out of Starbucks and spills his chai soya latte on his vegan leather pumps. A single tear runs down his freshly shaven cheek... ‘Giiiilette...’ etc.
link1234
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There has been so many times this has happened in the last few years like the T-Mobile ad a year ago. It is so strange that business think this is the type of ad that people want to see.
The comments are not supporting the ad either.
tampon_tornado
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I don't know why I crawled so far down the woke yarn girls rabbit hole but this video is... something else. https://www.instagram.com/p/BQMEALpBf2L/
One of the self-flagellating white women in her comments under another post linked to another brave yarn warrior princess who has created a "Me and White Supremacy Workbook" https://docdro.id/ENRoaMo it's mostly boring but she says a lot of weird and conflicting stuff and writes in the third person a lot. It's weird that she's from the UK, lives in Qatar, but almost all she focuses on is American based anti-black racism.
I never knew the knitting community was so full of racial tension and narcissism.
One of the self-flagellating white women in her comments under another post linked to another brave yarn warrior princess who has created a "Me and White Supremacy Workbook" https://docdro.id/ENRoaMo it's mostly boring but she says a lot of weird and conflicting stuff and writes in the third person a lot. It's weird that she's from the UK, lives in Qatar, but almost all she focuses on is American based anti-black racism.
I never knew the knitting community was so full of racial tension and narcissism.
Tanner Glass
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Men are statistically more likely to be teachers the older the student is and typically teach the more "serious" topics (high level STEM classes). If your child is five years old, they are nearly twenty times more likely to have a female teacher. If your child is 26 and pursuing a doctorate, they are twice as likely to have a male professors.
~95% of k/pre-k teachers are female.
~80% of elementary/middle school teachers are female.
~58% of high school teachers are female.
~50% of community college professors are female.
~40% of master's degree-track professors are female.
~32% of doctorate-track professors are female.
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Gillette hires transman spokesmodel. Calling it now.
Zero0
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Sure, but there's way more people going trough kindergarten, middle school and high school. The higher you go the less students there are.
Also men already do worse then women by the time they get to high school.
Tanner Glass
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I don't disagree, but it was more to highlight the idea of "what they teach is important" as opposed to just suggesting that men are better than women.
You're more likely to learn colors, shapes, and other "easy" stuff from a woman and engineering, law, ethics, business, science, and medicine from a man. Regardless of whatever implications that brings.
@AnOminous likely went to law school (and maybe even a good one) and the things he learned there probably shaped his person more than whatever he learned from female teachers in 3rd grade. This is statistically the experience for all college-graduated people that gets more probable the more educated they are.
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A ‘shit woke knitters say’ thread would make me so very happy.
And to avoid double posting: blaming women who bring up men for Male violence is illogical. If men were learning/copying violent behaviours from women you’d expect women to be at least as violent as men. Men commit the vast majority of violent and sexual crime.
We are all responsible for our own actions in life (unless we are meeting the bar for diminished responsibility, which most don’t.)
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Gillette really missed the mark there when they didn't have a kebab rescue a classroom full of little blonde girls from a whitemale terrorist wearing an explosive patriarchy vest.