It's time to "like" Gillette's new ad.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/15/gillette-has-new-out-condemning-toxic-masculinity-and-sparking-backlash/BixD6ttx5l3ugYiXXgDqUL/story.htmlThe ad from the company, which is owned by Procter & Gamble and headquartered in Boston, uses its decades-old tagline, “The Best a Man Can Get,” to question “toxic masculinity” and urge today’s generation of men to demonstrate values of respect, accountability, and role-modeling, according to a press release.
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Though it had racked up more than 3 million views on YouTube since its publication Sunday, the ad had more than 250,000 “dislikes” by YouTube users.
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Self-explanatory. Unfortunately, the 
outnumber the 
by more than 2 to 1. The incels have taken over. Don't read the comments, unless you enjoy being disgusted.
understand the vitriol of the comments on YouTube - wow! 
149K Likes
462K Dislikes
some of my relatives and friends have beards 
Seriously, not swiping at people with beards, just douchebags.
Response to LAS14 (Original post)
Some don't care. I do.
Do you have a bingo card you're trying to fill?
... I am utterly amazed at the negative reaction to this ad. I've watched it for myself instead of allowing others to influence my opinion, which is that the short film I've watched is benign and uncontroversial in its content.
When I was in kindergarten, a boy about my age in the neighborhood once without provocation hit me on the head with a lead pipe. As a result, I had a tiny scar in my scalp for decades. That wasn't the only bullying I experienced. Five years ago when my wife and our two daughters were visiting my sister unaccompanied by me, my sister told them about other instances of violent bullying I experienced in my preteens. I was subjected to physical assault by bullies on several occasions. I was set upon by a gang of boys all of whom were bigger and physically stronger than I was. (I guess one of them wasn't enough. 
) Once I was pushed out of a school bus window. I don't know if the bus was moving or not. I was amazed when my wife later told me what my sister had said to her and our daughters. I had no memory of those events because my mind had erased all memories of the attacks. In other words, I had experienced trauma. So, how could anyone object to a benign statement against bullying?
Regarding the message that women should be treated with respect: Both my sister and our mother were intellectuals. My mother was opposed to Jim Crow before World War II before there was even a civil rights movement. She stood up to her own mother -- who was a racist bigot, a segregationist. When she was in high school, my sister once went to school wearing a Star of David necklace to protest against the anti-Semitic bullying of a friend of hers. I could go on and on. Treating women with respect is controversial?
The angry critics of this benign ad only make themselves look bad. It's really disturbing.
