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Pakistani outrage bubbles as detergent ad promotes women’s rights (proctor-gamble)
Gulf News ^ | 6-24-19 | AFP

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: ads; failedstate; fakenews; islamofascism; jihad; mullahworshippers; muslimwomen; muslimworld; pakistan; proctorgamble; pseudostate; putinsbuttboys; russia
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To: JonPreston

We should care because progressives want to allow this in our county.

All cultures are equal, don’t you know.


21 posted on 06/25/2019 6:34:09 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: KosmicKitty

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.


22 posted on 06/25/2019 6:42:00 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: dynachrome

23 posted on 06/25/2019 7:01:23 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: JonPreston

Idiotic media can’t even get the name of the company straight. It’s “Procter & Gamble”—not “Proctor & Gamble”.


24 posted on 06/25/2019 7:09:42 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: dynachrome

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.)


25 posted on 06/25/2019 7:14:16 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind blows too much)
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To: Jim Noble
It is not the function of the United States to regulate relations between the sexes in foreign nations.

You mean U.S. Corporations who want to push sexual anarchy on foreign nations like they have here.
26 posted on 06/25/2019 8:50:13 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: a fool in paradise

It is a smear of conservatives.


27 posted on 06/25/2019 9:40:13 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: JonPreston

How happy will you be if the US falls under Sharia law?


28 posted on 06/25/2019 9:40:48 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Sicon
Those guys have mostly assimilated by now.


29 posted on 06/25/2019 9:43:18 AM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: dynachrome

The Paks need halal Tide Pods.


30 posted on 06/25/2019 9:44:50 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: dead

“FIRE CALLAWAY!”


31 posted on 06/25/2019 9:47:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: KosmicKitty
Sharia law

We're talking about Pakistan. If it ever came to America I wouldn't pay any attention to it.

32 posted on 06/25/2019 10:24:15 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

You might want to. Of we keep letting invaders in , we will lose our country.


33 posted on 06/25/2019 11:01:04 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: dynachrome

And people wonder why Pakistan is so economically retarded that their government has to borrow $3 billion from Qatar to stay afloat.


34 posted on 06/25/2019 11:52:04 AM PDT by montag813
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To: dynachrome
calls for women to break free of conservative norms and pursue careers.

Female careers are "controversial"?? They had a female PRESIDENT! Did they forget? WTF is wrong with these morons?


35 posted on 06/25/2019 11:53:59 AM PDT by montag813
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To: IC Ken

Ditto.


36 posted on 06/25/2019 11:55:33 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: montag813

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.


37 posted on 06/25/2019 12:30:52 PM PDT by Reily
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To: montag813

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


38 posted on 06/25/2019 1:41:27 PM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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