Posted on 04/10/2019 11:43:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gillette is making waves with a photo it tweeted of an obese woman posing on a beach in a bikini, with her curves and cellulite on full display.
The razor maker last week posted the image of Anna O'Brien, a plus-size fashion, fitness and lifestyle blogger, under its @GilletteVenus handle, captioning it, "Go out there and slay the day." Some Twitter users said the ad glamorizies obesity and that Gillette is "irresponsibly" promoting an unhealthy lifestyle for profit.
"This woman will die of heat disease before @potus completes his second term. I hope she's just as happy and carefree for her last 6 years of life. Everybody should live themselves, but lets not call it healthy," one twitter user wrote.
Some commenters defended O'Brien while keeping their aim focused on Gillette. "There's no reason to be rude or unkind to someone who is obese and there is no reason @GilletteVenus should be encouraging life threatening obesity. This would also be true if they used an anorexic model. I wish the model they used well but Gillette should know better," @robbystarbuck said.
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Well, I don’t have a problem with Gillette deciding to use plus size folks to sell products... Lets be honest, most women are overweight or obese, and I am sure if not most men are, its a very high percentage as well. Nothing wrong with marketing to them.
Do whatever you want, just don’t think I’m going to listen to your lecturing me about whatever it is....
Make a good product at a fair price, I will buy it... think that means you get to chastise my life choices, or try to shame me into some sort of alternate behavior, I’ll just take my business elsewhere.
Thinking you are in a position to tell me how to be a man?? Or how to raise my sons?? Because you sell razors?? Guess what, you just turned a loyal lifetime customer, into someone who will never knowingly buy your products ever again.
Scanners...psychic power.
The chick on the far left in orange shoes: “That’s not me in five years. That’s not me in five years. That’s not me in five years.”
Chick in the red jacket: “I won’t look at that. That won’t be me in five years. It won’t.”
Guy in the far right (blue shirt) ((Actually Lazamataz)): “Hmm. Could I hit that? Yeah, now that I think about it. I could. I could hit that.”
Lady in floral skirt writing: “Dear Diary. I saw the most god-awful thing today....”
You are scaring me now! If not scarring me! Permanently!
“We need to get a group of people to push it back into the ocean”
Just leave it on the beach for awhile..it will eventually explode.
Used Gillette for decades. Now using Harry’s Razors. Closer shave. No politics. That I know of...yet.
That’s the expression she makes when someone says “Free Donuts!”
Gillette’s ad agency is worse than Burger Kings and I didn’t think anyone could top the creepy King figure ads. Gillette has lost it’s mind to the hipster PC crowd idiots.
Gillette already poured gasoline on itself and lit itself on fire. Now they are sticking themselves in the wood chipper.
How does this ad translate into increased revenue?
On that basis, who should be fired at Gillette?
What a stupid advertising strategy...
That heifer is not “plus-size”-she looks close to being morbidly obese-as in FAT-that is unhealthy-it isn’t fit, either-I stay fit and thin-it takes natural organic food, a physical job and 3x weekly workout-I doubt that broad has worked anywhere but in a cubicle or lifted anything heavier than a plate of tacos in the past year-she probably thinks mac and cheese is a vegetable...
If she had on a black bathing suit, Greenpeace would send a boat to drag her back into the water...
A tub of lard is a fitness blogger ...
Why not? A Kenyan muslim fag was president of the United States.
Now using Harry’s Razors. Closer shave. No politics. That I know of...yet.
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Well, Hairy’s implies growing hair.
Testosterone is present.
So, ... too bad.
It must be tough to present oneself as confident when one is depressed 24/7/52.
“if it don’t look good, don’t stick it on your front porch.”
“As a grandmother and someone no longer thin, there is no way I would wear something like that in public or in my own backyard.”
Aw c’mon...I’ll bet you aren’t half bad. Women tend to underestimate themselves. Besides, “thin” is a turn-off. There is a sweet spot or range as it were and it’s pretty wide!
anybody remember Shallow Hal?
Thar she blows!!!
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