I find it to fascinating that someone made this a post because the ad also makes me VERY uncomfortable and I consider myself a woman that is for body positivity, nonbinary, women with body hair etc. I feel like the more powerful ad would be if she accepts her mustache but I find it so weird she goes from being uncomfortable to going the other direction of being over the top. No teenage is going to walk into school and dance around like that. It just seems bizarrely untrue to life. Had she just kept the mustache without the costume/dance--that would have been touching.
That's my theory of my reaction anyhow.... |
Gosh. If some of them are, do you think it might be because people are already telling them they’re ugly/weird/etc. I guarantee you, in a lot of cases where young women have stopped caring about body or facial hair, they were already targets for others’ mean comments. Waxing wasn’t going to get them anywhere. They’re dammed if they do and damned if they don’t, because so many women—the ones with the real self-worth issues—just need someone to cut down to feel ok about themselves. |
Yes. A fair and accurate assessment. |
It’s fair to say society in the US has told women they are ugly with it so they try to remove it. Boys are waxing their brows because girls make fun of unibrows. Is it fair to say most boys don’t GAF about unibrows but wax them due to societal pressure? |
They are very very pretty actually. Just like most white women made fun of big butts but alas, now we realize they are amazing. |
Can anyone name a culture on earth where women are considered more beautiful with a mustache? I think the commercial should have had her embracing her curly hair instead. A lot of women could relate. |
It's a hateful ad. Shocking it comes from Amazon. |
+1000 |
India, Italy and Honduras Do you need more? |
India? I don’t think so. https://www.outlookindia.com/national/meet-kerala-woman-whose-moustache-is-breaking-patriarchal-beauty-standards-in-india-news-212574/amp |
Literally an Indian woman wearing facial hair. |
That says she is breaking social norms in India and she was made fun of all her life. |
There is a fantasy like feel to the commercial, so I think it’s not supposed to be truly realistic. At least I think. Ads like this remind me that I’m getting old and that more and more often I’m not going to “get it”. To me, they are a beautiful girl/person who wears makeup well, cares about their clothes, has a fashion point of view, and even though someone tried to make their brows “natural”, those were definitely professionally shaped. So it doesn’t follow that this person wouldn’t wax or bleach if they didn’t like the moustache. And if they have hair because of hormones, then I’m not sure why they would be unhappy with it. It seems like an ad that someone without real knowledge would put together. Like if a person time warped from the 60’s made an ad about coming out as bi to your gay parents. Just off somehow. |
Gen X-er posted it’s older millennials and GenXs complaining. Very happy to see an ad where a girl accepts her unconventional features. Definitely not all of us “older women” find the ad offensive/repulsive/gross! My point was the marketing/ad company isn’t trying to get our $$. They want the Gen Z $$. I would be interested in seeing a breakdown on how this ad is viewed by geriatric millennial women vs Gen X women. I’m likely being overly optimistic in thinking the Gen Xers would have a higher percentage of women who have a “whatever” to “you go girl” attitude, but as a younger (hah!) GenXer my millennial friends are more concerned about fitting into mainstream standards for appearance than my GenX friends. Ancedata, but something I hadn’t really thought of before. |
I HATE this ad! It's so cringey! |