{"id":9716,"date":"2019-02-10T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=9716"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T17:57:57","slug":"the-danielle-metz-show-046-the-best-a-man-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/9716","title":{"rendered":"DMS 047 – The best a man can get"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Gillette<\/strong>, the brand that hates white men,” is how Danielle describes that company\u2019s market positioning statement due to its public service announcement (PSA) portraying white males in a negatively sexist and racist manner while asking:\u201cIs this the best a man can get?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a stark contrast against the company\u2019s original decades-old commercial, \u2018Gillette: The Best a Man Can Get,\u2019<\/strong> containing the lyrics \u201cwe give you all we have to give for all a man can be. When the race is run, you\u2019re the champion.\u201d <\/p>\n

The change in attitude and message has not been lost on a significant portion of the public, having already accumulated more than 1.2 million \u2018dislikes\u2019 on YouTube. Yet, in conversation with Danielle, Robert suggests that the PSA may well have been a \u2018brilliant marketing ploy\u2019 on the part of Gillette seeking to re-establish and expand name recognition and dominance in the marketplace. <\/p>\n

Sadly, Gillette\u2019s message is disturbing and provocative \u2013 for all the wrong reasons. As an indictment of the moral state of our society \u2013 condoning and promoting \u2018hateful nonsense\u2019 \u2013 the PSA stands on its own. But the \u2018message\u2019 (that most men are toxic) is a glaring moral condemnation of heterosexual masculinity itself. <\/strong>
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Beauty as a quality of femininity and physical strength and sexual aggressiveness as a quality of masculinity are not only natural, but desired and sought after by the vast majority of either sex. To feminists and those on the anti-sexual Left, these natural preferences and social norms are politically incorrect and offensive. <\/p>\n

How ironic that the Gillette ad calls for men \u201cto say the right thing, to act the right way\u201d in a message that otherwise promotes the wrong gender and sex mythologies of the Left. To the gender-obsessed Left, the \u2018right\u2019 way for men to act is feminine, or perhaps more to the point, feminist.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is most interesting given all of the gender\/sex politics today, is that at no time are women called upon to be the ‘best that they can be.’ In the current environment of radical feminism and sexist hatreds, it appears that there\u2019s more than enough room for improvement in this regard.<\/p>\n

It seems to us that the \u2018best\u2019 either sex can be is to behave in a manner consistent with consent, a principle long known to be Just Right for all, and a far cry from the politics of force that defines the Left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Gillette, the brand that hates white men,” is how Danielle describes that company\u2019s market positioning statement due to its public service announcement (PSA) portraying white males in a negatively sexist and racist manner while asking:\u201cIs this the best a man can get?\u201d It is a stark contrast against the company\u2019s original decades-old commercial, \u2018Gillette: The [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,28,2724,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-culture-society","category-latest","category-relationships","category-society","issues-feminism","issues-gillette","issues-male-toxicity","issues-sexism","category-12-id","category-62-id","category-28-id","category-2724-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9716"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9809,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9716\/revisions\/9809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}