{"id":186360,"date":"2019-04-07T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T09:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186360"},"modified":"2019-04-09T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T07:37:22","slug":"gillette-follows-up-toxic-masculinity-ad-with-fat-acceptance-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186360","title":{"rendered":"Gillette Follows Up \u2018Toxic Masculinity\u2019 Ad With \u2018Fat Acceptance\u2019 Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Your Destination Now.com \u2013 April 6, 2019<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_182305\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182305\" class=\"wp-image-182305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gillette-toxic-advert-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gillette&#8217;s &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; advert. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Gillette may just be the wokest razor brand of them all. In the wake of the company&#8217;s controversial ad smacking so-called &#8220;toxic masculinity,&#8221; Gillette Venus tackled fat acceptance and body positivity on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official Twitter account for Gillette Venus posted a photo of a morbidly obese woman in a bikini named Anna jumping at the beach. &#8220;Go out there and slay the day,&#8221; the captioned praised.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Go out there and slay the day ?? ? Glitter + Lazers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cIc0R3JfpR\">pic.twitter.com\/cIc0R3JfpR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gillette Venus (@GilletteVenus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GilletteVenus\/status\/1113565570354409473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a subsequent tweet, the account made clear their declaration: &#8220;Venus is committed to representing beautiful women of all shapes, sizes, and skin types because ALL types of beautiful skin deserve to be shown. We love Anna because she lives out loud and loves her skin no matter how the &#8216;rules&#8217; say she should display it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Feminists have been at the forefront of not only stripping stigma from being morbidly obese, but celebrating it. An example of the extremism of the movement was illustrated by Connecticut College psychology professor Joan Chrisler, who claimed in 2017 that medical doctors alerting patients to health risks concerning their obesity are engaging in &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/19420\/professor-doctors-telling-patients-lose-weight-amanda-prestigiacomo\"><strong>medical fat shaming<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Last year, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ben-shapiro-negatives-body-positivity-opinion-999729\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">asserted<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that it\u2019s &#8220;counterproductive to praise people for things about themselves they ought to change, particularly regarding health, assuming change is possible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The media\u2019s new focus on building up self-esteem regarding weight status isn\u2019t totally disconnected from radically escalating rates of obesity in the United States; 12.7 percent of our kids are now technically classified as obese,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;Self-esteem shouldn\u2019t be disconnected from achievement. Doing so leads to a lack of active decision-making. That holds true whether we\u2019re discussing obesity or whether we\u2019re discussing any other status than can be altered by decision-making. Self-esteem must be earned, not given.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thursday&#8217;s body positivity message fits in perfectly with Gillette\u2019s latest political ads. In January, the razor brand turned heads with their take on &#8220;toxic masculinity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;&#8216;Boys will be boys&#8217;? Isn\u2019t it time we stopped excusing bad behavior?&#8221; Gillette asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBoys will be boys\u201d? Isn\u2019t it time we stopped excusing bad behavior? Re-think and take action by joining us at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/giHuGDEvlT\">https:\/\/t.co\/giHuGDEvlT<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheBestMenCanBe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheBestMenCanBe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hhBL1XjFVo\">pic.twitter.com\/hhBL1XjFVo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gillette (@Gillette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gillette\/status\/1084850521196900352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Daily Wire\u2019s Ashe Schow\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/42173\/eyeroll-now-gillette-razors-are-talking-about-ashe-schow\"><strong>described<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>the ad thusly:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A narrator asks: &#8220;Is this the best a man can get?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>We then see teenagers chasing a boy as we hear clips about bullying,\u201d fake sitcom stars making jokes about women (there were no actual examples available?), and even an example of \u201cmansplaining.\u201d After all this, we\u2019re told we\u2019re \u201cmaking the same old excuses\u201d while the phrase \u201cboys will be boys\u201d is heard over and over again, as if that phrase relates exclusively to sexual discrimination.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Oh, but thankfully the Gillette narrator says, \u201cWe believe in the best of men.\u201d We then see a clip of actor Terry Crews saying, \u201cMen need to hold other men accountable.\u201d Then we\u2019re shown scenes of men intervening when other men tell women to smile, or walk after them on the street, or stopping bullying.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>\u201cSome are already doing this,\u201d the ad says. \u201cBut some is not enough, because the boys watching today will be the men of tomorrow.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Daily Wire podcast host, writer, and author Matt Walsh\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/42190\/walsh-5-reasons-why-gillettes-toxic-masculinity-ad-matt-walsh\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">highlighted<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the idiocy of the ad, noting specifically that the &#8220;boys will be boys&#8221; expression is not an excuse for rape and bullying, but holds real wisdom about the difference of the two sexes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;There are only, in the end, two options. Either we let boys act like boys or we force them to act like girls,&#8221; Walsh explained. &#8220;But the latter option makes as much sense as forcing girls to act like boys. You wouldn&#8217;t demand that your daughter stop playing with dolls and go out and wrestle in the grass instead. Why should we demand the reverse of boys?<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdestinationnow.com\/2019\/04\/see-it-gillette-follows-up-toxic.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we don\u2019t agree with the message being used to promote a product maybe we should look elsewhere? 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