{"id":84305,"date":"2019-01-18T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84305"},"modified":"2019-01-17T19:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:07:50","slug":"another-consumer-company-in-the-cultural-minefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84305","title":{"rendered":"Another consumer company in the cultural minefield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s Poetrooper, on Gillette’s razor ad.<\/p>\n

Another consumer company in the cultural minefield<\/em><\/p>\n

Poetrooper<\/p>\n

Another major American consumer products company has marched boldly forward where few dare go…right into the middle of the cultural minefield. Whatever possessed Proctor & Gamble to televise their now hugely controversial Gillette Razors commercial<\/a> that chastises males for their supposed toxic masculinity is anyone\u2019s guess, but they\u2019re going to pay a price. What could possibly inspire an advertising agency to use a militant feminist account manager like Kim Gehrig to create commercials for a subject as totally masculine as the daily scraping of beard stubble? Well maybe an agency headquartered in Tokyo, called Kamikaze Advertising, Inc. might consider it catchy.<\/p>\n

To be honest I hadn\u2019t even bothered to watch the fool thing until I clicked in to American Thinker and saw the response to a blog piece on the topic<\/a> by DC Larson was drawing\u2014an amazing 585 comments, an unusually high count for the blog post side of the AT page that reflects a huge interest in the topic. As you might expect, the responses are universally negative with most indicating intent to boycott P&G products. The article notes that a YouTube poll is a landslide of disapproval as well. Of course there is acclaim from the advertising industry, an entity whose hull is thoroughly dry-rotted by the constant pandering to political correctness of the largely liberal, female control on the creative side of the industry. <\/p>\n

What makes P&G particularly vulnerable in this situation is that this offensive ad is for a product line that is already defenseless due to being grossly overpriced, and to make things worse, dulls far too quickly, with my own suspicion being that it suffers from planned obsolescence, and simply is not worth it. There are plenty of competitive products that are seriously less costly and get the job done just fine, holding their edges longer. If the ad agency thought they might appeal to those urban beta males libs so favor, and armpit-shaving females, I think they\u2019ve grossly misjudged their market. Most of those big-city sissies have wishful, wannabee, wispy beards and my experience has been that women prefer lightweight disposable razors for their legs, pits and nether parts.<\/p>\n

So P&G is out in that consumer minefield with no safe path back, just like those dicks at Dicks, the NFL, Nike, Target, Kellogg\u2019s, and on and on. But on the bright side for Gillette, Ol\u2019 Poe figures there are plenty of manly feminists out there who could probably benefit from a daily scraping of their fuzzy chins and furry upper lips, not to mention some rather exuberant bushes that could bear an occasional trim.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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