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Purell Denigrates Men
posted by Matt on 10:32 PM March 28th, 2005
The Media Jeffrey Asher writes "[Regarding] Purell Sanitizers:

Purell’s television advertisement, “You can’t touch this,” has alerted the world to the primary infection vector: men.

Purell shows a man leaving the washroom without washing his hands; a boy in daycare dribbling nasal mucous on a ball; and an obese man sneezing explosively on supermarket shelves and a shopping basket. The victims of such masculine slovenliness and irresponsibility are all female.

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When may the public expect to see Purell broadcast a similar advertisement showing females as slovenly and males as their victims? If Purell will not run such and advertisement, then its message is clearly misandric.

Purell may rest assured that this man, and every other fair-minded woman and man I may persuade, will not buy your products for at least five years. I will attempt to bring Purell’s demeaning message about males to every forum I can."

Ed. note: Purell is owned by Pfizer, whose contact form is here.

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Compel Purell (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 12:44 AM March 29th, 2005 EST (#1)

Sure, I'll still buy Purell's products.

There are just a few things I'd rather do first.

First, I'd like to play naked twister with Hillary Clinton, watch Roseann Barr do a strip-tease and go synchronized swimming with Angela Landsbury.

But before that, I'd like to have my neck shaved by Ray Charles, get a proctologist named Dr. Hook, and jump off the Sears Tower, head first, onto a thumbtack.

Madcap Misogynist

Re:Compel Purell (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:01 PM March 29th, 2005 EST (#2)
Oh, swell.
So now we're all a bunch of "Typhoid Marys".
Yeah, like women never get sick unless a MAN sneezes on them or something. Now we're supposed to believe that all sickness comes from men. Next they'll be saying men are rabies carriers like vermin.
Well, they ALREADY consider us vermin, right?

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Re:Compel Purell (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:29 PM March 29th, 2005 EST (#5)
And in Road Safety ads, men are ALWAYS the cause of the accident.
Hotspur
Re:Compel Purell (Score:1)
by shawn on 07:55 PM March 29th, 2005 EST (#7)
In the anti-tobacco commercials sponsored by the State of California, they often dramatize scenes showing "evil executives" in a boardroom at a tobacco company plotting how they can harm more people by selling their product. Not surprisingly, all these evil executives are white men.

Although I personally feel smoking is the most disgusting thing on the face of the planet (besides feminism), I take a libertarian attitude when it comes to adults making their own decisions. Regardless, I find it ironic that these politically correct anti-tobacco commercials either: 1) hate men by implying that only men can be evil; or 2) believe that women and minorities don't belong in the company boardroom.

Re:Compel Purell (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:01 PM March 30th, 2005 EST (#10)
I find it interesting that those ads show "evil white guys" as the 'tobacco monster'.
It was actually we Indians who first introduced tobacco to the Western world.
We use tobacco in alot of our ceremonies and in prayer. It was never meant to be abused, though. I'm guilty of it myself, I am a smoker. Both cerenonialy and casually.
I probably shouldn't point out the origions of tobacco, though. Because knowing the media's antipathy towards Indians they may come up with ads depicting us Indians as shoving cigaretts into people's mouths as we stereotypicaly scalp them, or something...! I don't know.

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Re:Compel Purell (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 04:09 PM March 30th, 2005 EST (#13)
TC:

Considering all the land that's been stolen from the indigenous peoples, I would considering blaming the Indians last for any side effects someone may get from smoking tobacco.

R
Oh, God. (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:04 PM March 29th, 2005 EST (#3)
Oh, Son of a...
Re:Oh, God. (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 02:14 PM March 29th, 2005 EST (#4)
Son of a what...?
Son of a gun? Son of a Sailor? Son of a Preacher man...?

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Thundercloud... (Score:1)
by Boy Genteel on 03:12 PM March 29th, 2005 EST (#6)
...how is your mother doing? I've been thinking about you two.

bg
Men are from EARTH. Women are from EARTH. Deal with it.
Re:Thundercloud... (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:07 PM March 30th, 2005 EST (#11)
Boy Genteel-
Thank you for asking.
She's doing much better, now. She is home from the hospital after a week's stay.
She's getting around better now and is getting back to her old, grouchy self.
It was a close call, though. But I really do believe in the power of prayer, and I want to thank you and everyone else who prayed for her to recover. As I said she has been doing so steadily. Hopefuly she and I will be back on the Powwow circut this spring. :-)
Again, Thanks for asking, and thanks for the prayers.

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Society Accepts it for now... (Score:1)
by jname967 on 01:33 AM March 30th, 2005 EST (#8)
I remember in my psychology class a few years back, we learned how racism was accepted as the norm in the media, and how blacks were constantly the scapegoat and butt of all jokes and pranks. They showed us a old , cute disney flick with little kids in it--two white kids, and a black kid. The two white kids run and jump over a log, while the black one trips humorously. I believe MEN are the last group to go in the cycle of HATE and PREJUDICE. Our time will come to overcome it...
Don't Know Their Medical History? (Score:2)
by Luek on 04:29 AM March 30th, 2005 EST (#9)
“You can’t touch this,” has alerted the world to the primary infection vector: men.

Haven't these nimrods at Purell ever heard of Typhoid Mary?

JERKS!
Re:Don't Know Their Medical History? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on 03:21 PM March 30th, 2005 EST (#12)
Oh, I already covered that one.

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