By CyberBrahma on 2009-12-31 | 829 views
Parthasarathy “Partha” Raghuram joins Katherine Albrecht to discuss his campaign against Gillette’s efforts to label Indian men with facial hair as “lazy” in a deleterious bid to sell more razors. Callers weigh in.
Posted in Issues | Tagged 16 Day Activism, anti-male ad campaign, feminism, feminists, freedom twist, gillette, Katherine Albrecht, lazy stubble, partha, shave india, stubble, talk radio, wals, women against lazy stubble, women against lazy stubble. w.a.l.s
By CyberBrahma on 2009-12-17 | 611 views
Yes. Yahoo! has made an eloquent statement that women throng and longingly cling only to the men with stubble!
This peremptory conclusion of Yahoo! has turned Gillette’s (P & G) campaign of “Women against Lazy Stubble into a fiasco!
Poor Gillette! it’s ill-conceived ad promotion campaign is money down the drain!
Posted in Issues | Tagged aimwa, anti-male ad campaign, campaign, feminism, gillette, mach3, men are victims, men in danger, men of india, national stubble day, p & g, radical feminists, shave, stubble, wals, women against lazy stubble. w.a.l.s
By CyberBrahma on 2009-12-16 | 685 views
DNA reports on the fallout of the ill-conceived Gillette campaign – “Shave India Movement, Women against Lazy Stubble”. AIMWA has lodged a protest with the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) that the latest campaign by P & G “spreads hatred among genders” and “hurts religious sentiments.”
If Gillette chooses to term all Indians who grow [...]
Posted in Issues | Tagged aimwa, anti-male ad campaign, campaign, feminism, feminists, gillette, male victims, men and boys, men are victims, men in danger, men of india, monica, radical feminists, stubble, violence against men, w.a.l.sm mach3, wals
By CyberBrahma on 2009-12-15 | 274 views
Excerpts from the news report on Mid Day Dated: 2009-12-14.
An ad campaign that prods men to shave has made members of a men-only NGO pull at their hair
‘Mooch nahi to kuch nahi’. Indian men, traditionally, grow up believing moustache is the most potent symbol of masculinity. In fact, shaving off the moustache is considered [...]
Posted in Issues | Tagged activism, anti-male ad campaign, campaign, gillette, mach3, masculanity, mid day, mnc, monica, p&g, shave wals, stubble, w.a.l.s
By Virag Dhulia on 2009-12-06 | 1,095 views
A stubble is a man’s right and no one has any right whatsoever to dictate when he should shave or whether he should shave even. It is completely a man’s discretion whether he should remain clean-shaven or stubbled or bearded or unshaven.
By calling men who sport stubble as lazy, Gillette and its parent company Procter and Gamble have issued a Communal Hate Speech as there are enough religious minorities in India who have religious reservations against shaving and also a Gender Hate Speech against men. AIMWA strongly protests it and condemns it outright.
Posted in Issues | Tagged aimwa, anti-male ad campaign, domestic violence, feminism, feminists, men and boys, men are victims, men in danger, men of india, minisha lamba, mugdha godse, National Subble Day, neha dhupia, procter and gamble, stubble, violence against men, women against lazy stubble
By The Winner on 2009-12-04 | 1,350 views
It is a widely perceived truth that most women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage, as confirmed by a research done in U.K. The British newspaper The Telegraph has provided this insight about the stubble research:
Stubble is the way to win a woman’s heart, a study has shown. Researchers found that women [...]
Posted in Issues | Tagged campaign, gillette, macho, proctor and gamble, sexist, sexy, shave, stubble, wals
