Gillette lost 8 billion over the toxic masculinity ad

Tyzuris

Primarch to your glory& the glory of him on Earth!

Well this is just hilarious.

Who couldn see this coming?! I'm just shocked!

Me personally, it got me to try other brands. I found defender razor and will never go back. Far superior product for way cheaper.
I just use Philix One-Blade electric razor. A cheap and great electrical razor that does the job well for those with rigid and thick hair texture. Never gonna need anything else.
 
Last edited:

FriedCFour

PunishedCFour
Founder
You, somehow manage to have a more pessimistic view on the capitalist market than I do, good show.
I'm not a fan of big corporations. Ideally everything would be artisanal, small, focused on the local, and have community. As much self employment and small business as possible. Your boss is much better when he knows your name, your face, your family, than if you are a number on a piece of paper. Your work is better done for people you know than people you dont.
 

Realm

Well-known member
I'm not a fan of big corporations. Ideally everything would be artisanal, small, focused on the local, and community. As much self employment and small business as possible. Your boss is much better when he knows your name, your face, your family, than if you are a number on a piece of paper. Your work is better done for people you know than people you dont.

Small capitalists expand to large capitalists or they perish due to the nature of large enterprises becoming more efficient. That's capitalism, baby.

Only way you avoid that is no more bosses ;)
 

FriedCFour

PunishedCFour
Founder
Small capitalists expand to large capitalists or they perish due to the nature of large enterprises becoming more efficient. That's capitalism, baby.
Well thats just not true. There are many, many legacy small businesses handed down generation after generation. I guarantee there are plenty of restaurants, for example, that are both successful and only have one store in your area.

Only way you avoid that is no more bosses ;)
Or like, highly expansive anti-trust law, very low taxes and tax breaks for smaller businesses, no minimum wage laws which affect smaller entities much more than big ones, and such. You can't have no bosses. Bosses are a reflection of human nature as a hierarchical social animal. If you want to continue this discussion I would suggest taking it to our distributism thread here.

 

Arch Dornan

Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Oh yeah this thing. Kept seeing anonymous internet comments that they saw the advertisement and so stopped buying from this company so it must've worked even if the CEO said it was worth it from what I read.

Just us humans being human much like people getting bonkers over the release of socialist monopoly.
 

almostinsane

Well-known member
The issue with Gillette is that the population they were virtue signalling towards either don't buy their razors or fall far short of the population that do.

Meanwhile, Chick-fil-A alienated a far smaller population that probably didn't give or take much profit away and made more money from people trying their food out of support for them.

Now it's the third biggest restaurant in the country: Chick-fil-A is now the 3rd-largest restaurant chain in America, and McDonald's and Starbucks should be terrified
 
Last edited:

Big Steve

For the Republic!
Founder
The issue with Gillette is that the population they were virtue signalling towards either don't buy their razors or fall far short of the population they that do.

Meanwhile, Chick-fil-A alienated a far smaller population that probably didn't give or take much profit away and made more money from people trying their food out of support for them.

Now it's the third biggest restaurant in the country: Chick-fil-A is now the 3rd-largest restaurant chain in America, and McDonald's and Starbucks should be terrified

They do have fine quality, but their prices are such I don't eat there. And I admit I may never again as I support gay rights.

Then again, I don't go to McDonalds or Starbucks either. :p
 

almostinsane

Well-known member
They do have fine quality, but their prices are such I don't eat there. And I admit I may never again as I support gay rights.

Then again, I don't go to McDonalds or Starbucks either. :p
Fair enough. :p

Looking back, Gillette wouldn't have suffered such a loss by merely being woke. If it gave money to groups decrying "toxic masculinity", not as many people would have cared. There would have been even less people who cared about it than who cared about Chik-Fil-A donating to anti-gay marriage groups. The big mistake Gillette made was getting preachy and dedicating a whole commercial directly insulting their customer base.
 

Rocinante

Russian Bot
Founder
They do have fine quality, but their prices are such I don't eat there. And I admit I may never again as I support gay rights.

Then again, I don't go to McDonalds or Starbucks either. :p
For the record, yesterday I just had chick fil a for dinner with a lesbian couple.

Most gay people I know don't care.
 

Big Steve

For the Republic!
Founder
For the record, yesterday I just had chick fil a for dinner with a lesbian couple.

Most gay people I know don't care.

Personally, I admit I never really avoided Chik-Fil-A for that purpose alone, I don't have the spare income to eat out often unless I make use of sales (like the coupons I get with the Burger King and Wendys apps, and those are the two fast food chains I still occasionally use, or the specials from Papa Johns, my favorite big pizza chain, and we all remember what happened there right?). And there's an argument that boycotting is more likely to harm the local employees than the people in charge, so I can see why a lesbian couple wouldn't care on multiple fronts.

OTOH, that sentiment is a part of the sausage of reasons I don't eat at Chik-Fil-A, with price and the fact they close too damn early for me to go there before work also included. ;) Same reason I don't often have Subway anymore either, or KFC. And very much the reason I have Burger King or Wendys sometimes.
 

Arch Dornan

Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
Fair enough. :p

Looking back, Gillette wouldn't have suffered such a loss by merely being woke. If it gave money to groups decrying "toxic masculinity", not as many people would have cared. There would have been even less people who cared about it than who cared about Chik-Fil-A donating to anti-gay marriage groups. The big mistake Gillette made was getting preachy and dedicating a whole commercial directly insulting their customer base.
So how much of a drama queen did they act?

Oh.... Yeah I guess that's what the ad was.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Top