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Written by Virag
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Sunday, 06 December 2009 21:53 |
PRESS RELEASE
Sub: Announcing December 7 as the National Stubble Day
About AIMWA:
All India Men's Welfare Association (AIMWA) is the first ever organization formed in India to fight against all kinds of discrimination against men and boys. AIMWA was launched in Hyderabad on 11th October 2009 and has expanded to Bangalore and Chennai within two months of its launch with around 1000 members.
Background:
Gillette, the manufacturer of branded shaving products for men has come up with the idea of "Women against Lazy Stubble" wherein men not shaving, or men sporting stubble have been tagged as "lazy" and their women have every right to detest and demean them. And Gillette also tags this campaign as "Women on the warpath". This ad campaign was launched on November 7, 2009 and includes campaigns on various media channels as well.
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Written by Uma Challa
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Sunday, 06 December 2009 21:49 |
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P&G recently issued a Press Release in the name of “Women Against Lazy Stubble” http://shaveindia.com/pressrelease.php. This is not the first time that a company has resorted to male-bashing to sell its products. This is our call to all companies to STOP THE WAR AGAINST MEN AND BOYS and to put an end to MALE-BASHING.
PRESS RELEASE
Women Against Male-bashing: “No more Excuses for P&G to Carry on Hate Campaigns!”
Hyderabad, 6th December 2009: Launching the ‘Stop the War Against Men and Boys’ movement – Women Against Male-bashing (W.A.M), a group of young women looking to attract all like-minded women across India, who believe that it is about time P&G stopped its anti-male commercials, are happy to announce that scores of average Indian women have joined their league to show that they love the men in their lives for who they are and not because of how often or how well they shave.
To further supplement their plans to expand their movement in the country, All India Forgotten Women’s Association (AIFWA) has come onboard to support their campaign by boycotting all the women’s products manufactured by P&G, no matter how inexpensive they are and spread the message that women will no longer put up with the gender war stoked by P&G. The support from AIFWA will enable W.A.M to reach a much wider audience through its strong network. Now that P&G’s cheap sales tricks and loony marketing stunts stand exposed, P&G doesn’t have any excuse for not stopping its hate campaign.
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Written by Virag
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Friday, 04 December 2009 23:25 |
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"Women against Lazy Stubble (W.A.L.S.)" is a sexist anti-male ad campaign with the message that since women like men who are clean-shaven (as per some challengeable research), those men who do not shave will be marked off as lazy and their women have every right to detest them and not co-operate with them. Without going into the righteousness of the spirit of the campaign let's look where can such a campaign lead to in a society precariously poised against men and considering abuse of men as social service.
All the characters in the narration below are fictitious and bear no resemblance with any person living or dead whatsoever. Any such resemblance is co-incidental.
Abhishek is 29 years old, has a degree in management, a well-paid job in an MNC, an apartment, a car, lives away from his parents who are financially not dependent on him and is the only child of his parents with stunning looks and dashing personality. In short, he is just the husband any woman can dream off. And so comes Neha's dream true with as his alliance get fixed with her.
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Written by Virag
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Friday, 04 December 2009 22:42 |
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Procter and Gamble India Ltd. the parent company of GILLETTE the famous brand of shaving products for men has started an anti-male sexist campaign to boost their sales.
They are flaunting a flawed research that 94% women like men clean shaven, whereas umpteen number of independent researches sans any commercial interest and involving a far greater audience have proven the exact reverse – that women prefer men with stubble.
Had it been limited to this, it would have still been acceptable, however, Gillette wanted to stoop to levels far lower than this one. They went ahead to start a campaign, “Women Against Lazy Stubble” and called all men who do not shave or rather do not get time to shave as “LAZY” which is downright demeaning and insulting to men.
They roped in Minisha Lamba, Neha Dhupia, and Mugdha Godse (aspiring Bollywood actresses) as brand ambassadors.
If you think keeping stubble is your rights as a man or your man has a right to decide when he should shave or not and calling all men who do not shave as lazy is infringing into men’s rights, participate in the phone action against Gillette India.
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Written by Virag
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Friday, 04 December 2009 00:10 |
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Women Against Lazy Stubble (WALS), is a sexist hate campaign started by Procter and Gamble India Ltd. (P&G) to boost their sales of shaving products because the STUBBLE was slowly catching up as a fashion trend for men and this was hitting their businesses.
So, in order to boost their sales P&G has stooped to low levels of sexism to promote their business.
Women are being urged to detest unshaven men!
And P&G calls this as a welfare initiative for men! They are increasing competition in the already hyper-competitive life of men and that is welfare of men! Tomorrow my girl-friend will leave me because I could not find time to shave and she will go off with a "Clean Shaven Metro sexual" being influenced by this campaign then will P&G compensate me?
The campaign, as proclaimed by P&G, is based on a research by Neilson. Now how do I not know that when P&G can run a sexist campaign to boost their business, they cannot buy off Neilson's research to suit their tailor needs. After all, business is a financial war and "Everything is fair in LOVE and WAR".
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