OMG sexism!

Things like this make me really glad I grew up with male role models who couldn't care less about this kind of thing.

 

I had an eighth of an inch stubble in my armpits and my mom's all like " are you growing it out to braid it " which is absurd since she didn't even let my start shaving until it was way longer than that. People say its your choice then they tease you all the time if you don't. The sexism is ridiculous. > : (

 

Anyone else remember all of those Carl Jr's commercials?

 

Of course a company that is making razors will say that body hair doesn't look good on a woman. Same as companies that make razors for men make all those commercials where men only get attention from women after they've got completely smooth faces. It's not sexism, it's just a commercial, marketing. Stop being so overly sensitive.

Sure, making a claim that without shaving you become a man overnight is downright stupid, but they would make the same kind of claims if they targeted men not women. They aren't sexist, they are just trying to sell their crap.

 

Thanks for mentioning this because it seems whenever these kind of ads pop up people instantaneously just assume there's only these sexist ads towards women. I remember an ad for a razor for men that can shave body hair and all that delightful stuff. It mentioned how women only like men with no kind of body hair and that hair anywhere other than your face is disgusting.

Also, how does everyone feel about ads for face cleaning products and the like, that always have a girl using it? Even worse when they market the good products exclusively to girls and create a stigma that guys don't need 'feminine' products to wash their face. I can still remember the time I bought a Normaderm (?) product and the cashier told it was a women's product.

 

Wow that is just awful! I'd recommend sending in complaints about the advert, it's the only way this kind of stuff is gonna stop.

I remember having a big conversation about this last month with a friend. She was basically sick & tired of being judged for not shaving her legs, it used to stop her from going to some social events (like beach parties etc)...she said it's not fair girls are expected to do this, it's such a big hassle...and the worst part is other girls judge you the most if you don't do it (obviously not all girls would but she felt like often other perfectly made up girls made the biggest deal out of it!).

They just need to tone these adverts slightly differently, mens shaving adverts don't ever come across as preachy or sexist (although there are some exceptions like the guy above mentioned)

 

I don't think you fully understand the concept of sexism. If both sexes are told that without shaving their hair they are ugly - that is not sexism. If both are told that they have to look their best, otherwise no dates - that is not sexism. And that's exactly what is happening.

Shaming? I have never felt shamed by tv ads. However, I have noticed that many people, primarily women of course, are trying to victimize first themselves and then also everyone else. But remember - it's just a commercial, just marketing, people are trying to make money, they are not after you and aren't trying to turn the whole world against you, and don't even care if you ever use their product as long as you keep buying it.

 

What is the problem in this? Ok, it is not a very good commercial, sure, but why are you making such a big deal out of it and dragging sexism into it? They are not saying that men are by far more intelligent than women and that's a fact, they are making a mere normative statement, expressing their taste - men with some stubble on face look fine, women with hair all over them don't. I haven't seen the commercial but I bet that guys in their commercials don't have full on body hair, not even beards. Standards are the same for both, it's not sexism, it's mere play with language, words, images.

Maybe the problem is that you see ads as authority persons that are telling you things? From the way you write it seems you're describing your mother or a lover giving you a lesson. You are way too emotionally invested in those ads.

No, they would call you insane. If all people are criticized for a trait, biological or whatever else, it is not an issue of discrimination.

 

Saw the US version. I'm on the fence on that. On the one hand, I can see how it could even be tested on a sample audience of women and still make it to the air, but on the other hand, who the hell feels like a dude after one day of not shaving? Personally, I have to literally resemble a guy, legwise, before I feel self conscious about it, but that's just me.

All that aside, I do see this attitude towards hair on tv all the time. My sister's kid shows, for example, showed a bit where one girl had pencil-thin brows with no perceivable strays, and yet another girl character acted as if they were caterpillar brows. Even went so far as to say, quote, "speaking of deforestation" when advising her to pluck. Okay, this might be a tangent, and maybe the people in charge of wardrobe and makeup and the like don't know shit about how a character should look, given the context, but it still pisses me off.

 

I watced the US one. Honestly I'm not very surprised that it was pulled, USA is the land of over the top PC thanks to (among other groups of people) the laughable Gloria Steinem wing of feminism. The commercial was funny, nothing wrong with it. If women get their psyche traumatized by a commercial like that and get depressed, think that they are ugly or whatever else you claim happens to them due to this supposed shaming - they need to see a good doctor. We're not going to turn the whole world into one big mental hospital with soft walls.

Are you deliberately doing this? Let me quote myself, with the important part in bold:

 

Wow! Living in the u.s. I haven't had the chance to see that commercial. It's advertising and people will do anything they can to sell their product. It's all about the money.

 

Oh my gosh, I hate that advert so much >.< It's like: "B*tch, shut dafuq up! I look beautiful how I am" Love how the 'beauty' industry just makes its fortune off making women feel insecure. I actually think we are moving backwards in terms of gender equality sometimes. (Especially considering we live in a society where 'gender equality' seems to be a term applied solely to the status of women in relation to men. When realistically, men don't have all the rights women have either, and trans, queer, and intersex people get virtually no recognition within the term gender equality.)

 

Nautilus, is that Beethoven in your avatar? Looks like a stylized Beethoven silhouette.



(Thinking if I perform any more thread hijacks today, Captain Philips is going to come looking for me.)