It's remarkable how far we've fallen. In 1989, they released an extremely empowering commercial, that actually makes you want to buy their razors. In 2019, they devote all their airtime to shaming men as if they had some original sin for being a man.
The 2019 ad is nowhere near as effective as the 1989 one. Unless our advertising companies have gotten much worse in the past 30 years (they haven't) we can reason out the point of this commercial wasn't to sell razors. Either they're hamfisting an anti-masculinity agenda or they hope to short the stock and buy it back when it's low.
IIN Gillette, wtf?
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It's remarkable how far we've fallen. In 1989, they released an extremely empowering commercial, that actually makes you want to buy their razors. In 2019, they devote all their airtime to shaming men as if they had some original sin for being a man.
The 2019 ad is nowhere near as effective as the 1989 one. Unless our advertising companies have gotten much worse in the past 30 years (they haven't) we can reason out the point of this commercial wasn't to sell razors. Either they're hamfisting an anti-masculinity agenda or they hope to short the stock and buy it back when it's low.