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So Men Want Advertising Equality?
You asked when there would be a commercial shaming women…
It seems there is a very clear message that men of the world want to have heard and it is this:
“We don’t want a major corporation telling us how to think and how to act.”
I am paraphrasing about 8,237 comments that I have seen all over the internet and social media in the last few days.
Men have stepped up to the podium. They are mad as hell and they are not going to take it. Do NOT tell them how to act. Do NOT tell them what to say. They DON’T need it.
Hmmm.
What I also hear is that some men think turnabout should be fair play. Why doesn’t Gillette make a version of the ad telling women what to do? Where is all the woman shaming? There should be woman shaming!
Interesting.
Guys, I hate to say it, but you’re late to the party. So late, in fact, that we’ve been breaking that party down and cleaning up the streamers for quite some time. It’s a big party and there is a lot to clean up! I mean, full on rager.
Showing up demanding for a “toxic femininity” version of the Gillette ad is ignoring the…