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My Letter to Procter & Gamble, Parent Company of Gillette
I couldn’t find the address for Gillette, so I wrote to its owner, Procter & Gamble:
Published in GeneralI have been a faithful customer of Gillette for years. Its ad that attacks men and boys is unacceptable. Boys will be boys. To argue to the contrary is stupid. Male mammals are different from female mammals. Period.
I have no more need for my Gillette razor as I bought a Schick razor last night. I am returning my Gillette razor to you.
You should apologize immediately. This is the worst corporate move since the New Coke and the Edsel. I don’t know how you are going to escape this. However, I would be happy to make an example of this so that you and other business never ever do this again.
Very Truly Yours,
GARY E. ROBBINS, P.C.
You could add “DumbA**!” For some reason, that’s my favorite word these days. (About which I am not proud.)
Perhaps because we seem to be surrounded by the Dorks?
Way to go, Gary….WooHoo!
Try to be more subtle, I prefer Dumb Masses.
You are the scourge of corporate America! Have you had any success with a refund from the Weekly Standard’s owners? They keep trying to get me to read the new magazine.
Haha! I love that word lately too, and have used it in recent posts. I wasn’t sure if I’d get in trouble for it.
And I remember a time when Procter & Gamble was accused of Satan worship. Somebody found a way to interpret their old logo with the stars in it as some kind of hidden Satanic message, and the curls in his beard were supposedly “666” haha. I think it might have been someone at Amway who started the rumor, I forget. It was a long time ago.
I loved this from Steve’s Week in Pictures (Powerline) today.
Priceless!
I have mused for years on inventing a car horn that shouts “DUMBA**!!!” every time you hit it. And if you hit it multiple time in succession it would dub-step – “D-D-D-D-D-DUMBA**!!!”
Now if I only had any electrical engineering knowledge…
We are Dollar Shave Club and we approve this message.
Gary,
This is the first time we are in 100% complete agreement. Actually, your addressing it to Procter & Gamble is an excellent touch. Let them realize that they have risked their entire corporate brand on this piece of scurrilous garbage. Any objective person could have told them this would be the result. That is what is most disturbing. How much radically biased personal infiltration has Procter & Gamble already accepted? This should be a wake-up call that these kinds of people will destroy your business. Don’t hire the woke or you’re courting disaster.
Regards,
Jim
It’s spelled “dumbaß.”
Very well said, Gary!
“New Coke” is funny.
Although I think this is a viral marketing scam like that Tide Pod eating thing they started last year. P&G is a meme machine.
It’s my favorite insult for idiot drivers. I wouldn’t go as far as saying I’m proud of that, but it definitely doesn’t bother me.
Are you telling us that you use your professional corporation to buy your razors?
To take two other recent examples of companies catering to a male audience that have attempted to inject politics into their product where it doesn’t belong, Dick’s Sporting Goods has simply continued to bull ahead with their anti-gun policy, and seem to be attempting to weather the consequence of declining sales it has brought during the current economic upturn, as the people who had been buying guns from that sporting goods chain also are no longer buying other items (while the SJW types who cheered Dick’s on are simply professional online social media protestors and media people, who never bought much from the store in the first place and haven’t changed their habits).
In contrast, ESPN over the past year under it’s new president, Jimmy Pitaro, has tried to move away at least a little from the John Skipper idea of turning all of the network’s non-live sports shows (and ESPN Radio broadcasts) into venues for ‘woke’ hot takes. They still have a few daytime shows like that, but Pitaro’s purged it from primetime SportsCenter broadcasts, and the ratings are up 8 percent over the past year. So it’s Gillette and P&G’s call on which way they want to go, in the backlash over their attempt to make shaving political.
$25 for eight Korean blades and a tube of shave butter? Hardly a good value.
Bought by Unilever in 2016. Thus subject to PC marketing:
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/dollar-shave-club-embraces-a-new-era-with-an-inclusive-campaign-that-goes-beyond-blades/
ht @douglas
https://www.ratburger.org/index.php/2019/01/15/shaving-commercial/comment-page-3/#comments
Are those celebrated in British Sign Language, @dougwatt?
Half fast. Maybe it’s a regional thing.
This is the problem. Just seems like all corporate America is afraid of the left so there is no products to buy that are free of SJW messages. These companies don’t fear the right.
Nah, but I think that putting stuff on letterhead gives it an extra push.
If Proctor and Gamble gets a bunch of letters, they will likely get a new ad agency. At the minimum, they will take out criticism of “boys will be boys.”
Abusing corporate resources for personal political purposes. Sounds Trumpian.
;) Its my company, and I will do what I want to, do what I want to, do what I want. You would do too, if you had your own P.C.!
The Address for Procter & Gamble is:
The Procter & Gamble Company
1 P&G Plaza
Cincinnati, OH 45202
There might be a couple of people ready to congratulate him on his wokeness. AKA, dumba$$es.
I’ve been trying to come up with a better expression in response to malicious and wrong-headed slander and error, if only in my own mind. I’m thinking that we might start using Flo’s line from Alice: “Kiss my grits!”
Every time someone says racist-sexist-homophobic or whatever, just respond with “Kiss my grits!”