"Gillette commercial controversy: Men should just get over it and adapt to #MeToo era"

I ran this just for the humor value. Check your male privilege you evil vile FUCKS!

It's free entertainment, as is this:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/gillette-accused-of-sexism-over-pink-tax-after-company-praised-for-tackling-toxic-masculinity/ar-BBSlD7l

Indeed. Didn't Gillette learn from the Michael Kimmel experience? Cast your lot with vile feminists and your ass will get hoisted.

Mastadon also submitted this one: https://www.popdust.com/gillette-ad-2626185510.html

Those characterizing the ad as "anodyne" or "harmless" haven't stopped to think about what the reaction would be if the sexes were reversed. Just try to imagine an ad shaking a condescending and scolding finger at women, using idiotic stereotypes. Would the Angry Sisterhood take it sitting down? Their ire would only increase if they were scolded for not womaning-up and learning a lesson from it. Or, not just women; would an ad that stereotyped any group EXCEPT (white) MEN be thinkable? (It has been pointed out that in the Gillette ad, the bad guys are almost all white, while the one good guy is not.) Which other group is held responsible, as a group, for the "sins" of its individual members?

"Based on the furious reaction to this effort, the message is more needed than perhaps we even realized."

If that's true, suppose we produce an ad or movie with all the negative behavior of women: that they nag, make false accusations of rape, lie about who the father is, and are unbearable during that time of the month.

Let's suppose the feminists objected to it.

Would that prove the "the message is more needed than perhaps we even realized"? That it proves women actually do need to deal with their poor behavior?

On a side note, the Pats play in Gillette Stadium. Another good reason not to root for them against KC. :)

Don't you just love the response of "intellectuals" to men expressing their ideas and feelings, by telling them to shut up and get over it!

Just goes to show, being highly educated (especially in gender studies) doesn't stop you from being very very stupid

Notice how men are condemned by the APA for being "stoic" but then get slammed for not being stoic about the Gillette commercial.

Shutting up is unhealthy but speaking up is wrong.

I know: we should just let women tell us what to think and what to do. They're good at it. They like to tell people what to do.

... his mate def wants him to express his ideas and feelings only insofar as they are approved by her.

I have noticed something though that has happened in our modern western society and I think it may be due to the rise of the Internet as a social medium. The insistence that those you associate with hold views that reflect your own has crept beyond couplehoods and now permeates non-romantic rel'ps. I think this is bc what one sees on web sites is completely controllable by oneself. If you don't like what a site says, you just go to one you do. It can easily be you live in a self-created echo chamber in your online life. Then when hit with divergent views in real life you have the same dismissive reaction: go away. You surf away from the person w/ divergent views like they were a web site.

In fact you may prefer to engage w/ others only online where you can fully control the medium. Eventually, face-to-face discussions or real personal rel'ps become annoying or require too much attention to maintain vs on-line interactions. As for forming and valuing real-life in-person rel'ps? You may stop doing so.

This is how large swaths of first world pop'ns have come to become as they have. Sad. Pathetic. Nuts. Stuff of dystopian sci-fi.

And yet, here I lie as I tap this out, on a bed with 5 cats on a Sat. afternoon. The high point of my day was riding my Yamaha to the cycle shop to get a new pair of tires. The most signif. convo. I had today was with a local cop who gave me a written warning over doing 39 in a 30. (I pulled out my Inner Lawyer but it didn't hurt I was wearing a sheer black low-cut number and no bra. I also was feeling frisky too so had on a matching black micro-mini with black stockings and black fuck-me heels but I don't know if he noticed. He was too busy staring at my tits and imagining what I could do with my maroon-colored lipsticked lips.)

Admittedly, I am 50. And while I am firmly in middle-age I recall how my dad was at 50. He got around. He had lots of friends and they and he made effort to stay connected. He was perhaps not as energized as he was in youth but clearly preferred to create and maintain his rel'ps. My mom, also, though she had fewer and seemed to prefer that. They had no damned Internet.

I, OTOH, can count on one hand the no. of ppl I take time to bother keeping contact with and then I don't need all 5 of my fingers. Further, I readily admit to rather liking to express myself through the Internet as the medium and am satisfied to know at least someone out there has read my stuff. That he or she agrees with me or not isn't that important to me. Yet when this medium first emerged, it did. What has changed these past 30 years, aside from myself? I have seen this evolve.

I find ending virtual rel'ps with ppl I once knew in person to be quite easy, esp if they start babbling feminist or SJW nonsense. I consider that stuff as bad as Nazism and would end things with anyone I knew to champion Nazi ideas, so I apply the same standards. Unfriending ppl who post feminist/SJW propaganda is gratifying and I never re-friend them. Once exposed as a bigot, you're always a bigot as far as I'm concerned and I'll see you in Hell. I find it both very easy and satisfying. The more ppl like that I discover and boot from my life, the happier I am.

That's just the opposite of how I *used* to react. I may have booted an asshat from my life in the past and to some degree mourned it. But I don't now. The Internet has made rel'ps both disposable and replacable.

Another factor: the modern labor economy. Us worker bees are treated like paper towels. I am in IT. IT ppl are utterly disposable. Most IT jobs are contractor positions now. We work in 6-month stints. But it can change at any time. On day 1 of a new job you can get cancelled. I have seen that happen. The reason can be anything, usually it's someone else's budgetary mess-up. Once was that ppl got jobs and formed real personal bonds w/ coworkers. Not anymore, at least not in IT. Jobs are too transient. Like soldiers in wartime, you have buddies, but not friends. Friends can die, leaving you mourning. But buddies dying -- unfortunate. Don't get too close. Same thing in the modern labor market.

As for romance -- you're kidding, right? Need we even discuss.

So rel'ps are disposable. Ppl with annoying divergent opinions are easily intolerable. As for LTRs with anyone whose opinions abt feminism or politics or whatnot that diverge from yours -- why bother to put up with them when you have the echo chamber of the Internet?

So you'll die alone. Friendless. Forgotten.

And... so what? All men (and women) ultimately die alone anyway. Forgotten? The graveyards are filled with forgotten people. Friendless? Can friends save you from death?

And there you have it: modern life.

Enough to make you want to go Amish.