Posted on 06/25/2019 5:41:30 AM PDT by dynachrome
ISLAMABAD: An international detergent brand has come under fire for an advertisement questioning gender stereotypes in the conservative patriarchal country, with critics denouncing the company for allegedly insulting Islam.
The commercial for Ariel soap, owned by US-based Proctor & Gamble, calls for women to break free of conservative norms and pursue careers.
In the ad, several women representing different professions - including a journalist and doctor - are seen pushing dirty sheets hanging on a clothesline off the screen.
The sheets are printed with common refrains used to reinforce the oppression of women in Pakistan, including the question “What will people say?”, which heralds scandal every time a woman chooses to challenge gender norms.
(Excerpt) Read more at gulfnews.com ...
We should care because progressives want to allow this in our county.
All cultures are equal, don’t you know.
If American progressives want to do that to their progressive women, and they choose to sit back, that’s their business. I won’t stop them, I hate them.
Idiotic media can’t even get the name of the company straight. It’s “Procter & Gamble”—not “Proctor & Gamble”.
Do the People at P&G in Cincinnati realize that they are now a target? Someone with a gun is very likely to walk in and start shooting.
(Then Cincinnati Police will announce that they have no idea why and will not mention the shooters name or that he was yelling Allu Ackbar.)
It is a smear of conservatives.
How happy will you be if the US falls under Sharia law?
The Paks need halal Tide Pods.
“FIRE CALLAWAY!”
We're talking about Pakistan. If it ever came to America I wouldn't pay any attention to it.
You might want to. Of we keep letting invaders in , we will lose our country.
And people wonder why Pakistan is so economically retarded that their government has to borrow $3 billion from Qatar to stay afloat.
Female careers are "controversial"?? They had a female PRESIDENT! Did they forget? WTF is wrong with these morons?
Ditto.
Pakistan is not really a country but a collection of competing tribes, clans, & families sort of weakly or strongly tied together via religion. The only thing really agree on is their dislike of India. Often these groups control some aspect of the country & economy. Many of them are heavy into grey market smuggling, drugs, gun running, money laundering & “local protection” rackets (Much like the US mob!). And just like the “mob” their competition can be violent. In fact it really is like the “mob” planet in the old Star Trek:TOS episode. An American-born Pakistani-American I once knew described it to me that way.
Pakistan has regressed. In the 60s you hardly saw a scarf covering the hair, leave alone a burkha. Ditto for much of the 70s. But then Zia ul Hug came and Islamisized the army and the country with lots of funding from Saudi Arabia.
Since then it has been downhill all the way
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