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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH here:  I thought it was lame, insulting, and will backfire.  Whatever market research says about who does the shopping, I find it very hard to believe men don’t have or express preferences about shaving items, which are reasonably personal, and I suspect this is going to hurt Gillette more than it helps.  Woke Capital is tiresome and is due a comeuppance. We shall see, the reaction will be interesting.  [/quote]

Bye, Felicia![/quote]

Different poster here, but check out the ratio of upvotes to downvotes on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0

I am a guy who thought it was a nice short film, but also [b]kind of insulting the more I think about it.[/b] [/quote]

Same here. I'm not a big BBQ or sports guy, but if I were, I'd be like why does Gillete hate us.[/quote]

[b]They used stereotypical situations men find themselves in - BBQing, watching sports, etc. Would you suggest they have the men in the commercial in an empty, windowless room? 
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The message is simple - the whole "boys will be boys" that we all thought was fine turned out not to be fine. Gillette is trying to demonstrate that your children are watching you, and we can show them every day how to be better. This doesn't mean that YOU are bad. It takes time for a society to learn social lessons. Think about our great grandparents and grandparents, and their views on race. It doesn't change overnight. But if they had just sat back and said "well you're just insulting and criticizing us, so I'm not listening", where would we be? This is insane. They are not insulting you, they are trying to point out that things we believed to be harmless were not. You are specifically looking for things to criticize because hey, who wants to admit that they've been wrong? And I don't believe that this behavior is something that only men did, and just as many women are guilty of that mindset. But this is a company whose slogan is "the best a man can get" so guess what, their commercial is about you, man who has the ability to grow facial hair. You don't often see men in tampon commercials, do you? [/quote]

This is funny.

We men who don't care about BBQs or sports ... don't exist?

There's a million ways to transmit "don't be a jerk" without stereotyping and patronizing half of the population.

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There's also a guy walking down the street with a child. A kid being bullied. A group of young guys watching tv. A bunch of dudes sitting around a conference table in a meeting. There's a guy at a pool party watching a girl get harassed and another guy watching some dude eyeball a girl on the street. There's a father talking to his daughter. There are a bunch of randomly ethnic male faces just watching all this go down. Can you not even identify with a generic face of your ethnicity? The bbq and sports take up like a second. Are you saying bbq and sports loving guys shouldn't have been represented in the commercial about dudes. [/quote]

Oh, come on. The main themes were sports and BBQs, including that long line of BBQ dudes next to a wall apparently waiting for Gillette's firing squad.

It's all stereotype and it's all negative.

Except, of course, if you buy overpriced Gillette  :mrgreen: [/quote]

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