AngryLittleAlchemist said:
thismeintiel said: Agree 100%. You don't like that a product is risque? Don't buy it. Instead we have a minority bitching about it loudly, making companies think they are the majority. Or the company heads just agree with their stance/politics. Then, they change the product to adhere to those views, it turns off half, or even the majority, of the fanbase, while the ones bitching never intended to buy the product anyway. Get woke, go broke is a real thing. It's happening to SW and Marvel comics. May even happen to MCU, depending on how they go about their next phase. And while the numbers aren't out, yet, I doubt Gillette did anything to help bolster their marketshare with that woke ad. Dollar Shave Club must have seen a major uptick in new customers for them to feel the need to tweet about it a day or two later. Eguard did a great ad opposing the Gillette one and saw so many new orders, even though their cheapest watch is $155, that they are giving $10,000 to charity and there is going to be a big delay in shipping. |
Eh? Didn't Gilette's stock go up after the ad?
Puritanism is not exclusive to the right or left. The difference is that now the left is just as much a part of it as the right, for different reasons but it all goes back to censorship and it isn't good in the slightest.
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For the past couple months, P&G, the company that owns Gillette, has been hanging around the same area, with ups and downs. It went to 96.64 a share in mid-Dec and is at 93.6, now. But, stocks a company does not make. It needs customers. And if Gillette reveals that sales are even just 5%-10% lower in their Jan-Mar quarter, those stocks are going to drop along with them.
Sorry, but if you think the Right is just as much a part of it now then, say, the 70s and 80s, then you are dead wrong. The Right aren't the ones interrupting when Leftist speakers come to colleges, some even rioting, to get their speeches/visits cancelled. The Right aren't the ones who want the "sexualization of women" in video games to stop. Or throw out the blanket terms of racism/misogyny/sexism to shut down critics or political opponents. Saying opposition triggers them, so it must be shut down. A lot of the Right have actually moved to being more Libertarian in the past decade or so. They just want to be left alone and not be forced to accept or take part in the insanity that has been taking place.