Harassing and assaulting women are not a part of masculinity.
No. They are certainly not! Gillette has a lot of guts lecturing males as if we are all bullies and cave men and I don't appreciate their commercial.
I will be certain to never buy their product in the future, if I ever did before.
That woman has no clue what she is talking about if that is what she meant.
You have a problem with the concept of masculinity. I was taught by my father to respect and treat women as equals and my daughters are happy well adjusted women of accomplishment as a result. Most males I know were instructed similarly.
I don't appreciate Gillette addressing me as if I were Harvey Weinstein and that goes for you as well.
Really, this is a point well to be taken.
Advertisements are aimed at an entire audience. In Gillette's case, that's half the population. To direct this message at the majority of men is inappropriate. They really don't think that real men know this? That real men don't love and honor their opposite sex? It could be easily understood that a man feel insulted.
P.S. Men do have feelings. And you don't want to see some of the manifestations of those feelings. Men don't want to see them, either, but they're prepared to display them if it comes to it.
That's what scares us a bit about ourselves. We know, we see, we feel that nature has instilled in the male human the capacity to do anything if sufficiently unhinged. There is a point at which it is unbearable to continue living than fail to protect something dear.
Yes, mothers feel something similar, or at least history has shown how excruciatingly effective female fighters have been in defense of their home and children.
Men are all too ready to travel half-way round the world to do what they feel is the same thing; effect their will. Sometimes, that will is to the 'good', sometimes not.
Certainly, not all men are that way. All men are not alike. There is every imaginable variation, and then some.
There are men who are addicted to women and actively dislike men in general. They detest macho and men who are, especially the ones who are and are vocally proud of it. Yet, even they themselves recognize that gripping, gut-level feeling and know it's innate.