marketing of masculinity

I have to wonder how many swirlies per day the writer of that wish-fullfilling machorgasmic copy received in his school days.

for you guys who are in relationships/live with women, don't you all just share all your products???

haha um no

I have no products apart from some fairly generic aftershave (which I really only use when I shave my head every couple weeks) and Dr. Bronner's.

'Maybe if I talk about how salad bars are for pussies the football players will bro down with me at our next reunion.'

bronners for life

the soap is good but the lack of masc marketing psychic aggression is where its true value lies

"Duke Cannon’s premium grooming goods will not get you laid, and they won’t make you more manly. They promise only to you get you clean, smelling, and feeling good. Your masculinity is not defined by the brands you use but by the actions you take. The Duke Cannon brand is FOR decent, hard-working men; it doesn’t help create them."

such mixed messaging

Duck Bonner never gonna come close to the hypercharged gender identification found in these spots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt0c-SkQuwg

We share some of the bar soap, that’s about it. I always prefer exfoliating stuff, she usually doesn’t. I use Mane & Tail, she has hair that actually requires attention.

We have three of the same type of hairbrush but I’ve gone ahead and labeled the back of each one with a white paint pen, that’s probably the most indicative detail here.

for you guys who are in relationships/live with women, don't you all just share all your products???

― Yerac, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:03 PM (thirty-one minutes ago)

i don't like to use my gf's products because they're usually more expensive and she buys them. i share her sunscreen and moisturizer if she has bought a cheaper one. and i use cheap shower gel and head and shoulders and sunscreen and salicylic acid for my zittiness and that's it.

oh and i buy my own cheap moisturizer if she only has more expensive stuff

can't believe I didn't weigh in 10 years ago about installing drywall -- mudding & taping is not hard.

actually, it is somewhat similar to making a pie crust.

re sharing product, if something doesnt pass muster ill have it passed on to me tbh

for you guys who are in relationships/live with women, don't you all just share all your products???

No, we each have our own stuff.

i've been single for 10 years, but was basically married for 11 years prior, and the idea of "sharing all your products" was a bit too close for comfort.

we share the products that we both need (soap, shampoo, conditioner, skin lotion), I just use whatever brands she chooses

she doesn't like me sharing lol

My partner has very fancy/expensive cleaning products, and I’m happy just throwing soap at my skin, so we use separate products as well

re sharing product, if something doesnt pass muster ill have it passed on to me tbh

relationships with live women, lol

for you guys who are in relationships/live with women, don't you all just share all your products???

question marks, whatever

for you guys who are in relationships/live with women, don't you all just share all your products???

Yep. Having the same 'taste' helps, I guess, but I can't imagine having such vastly different preferences that either couldn't/wouldn't use the other's. But I'm not married to any of my shower products.

for you guys who are in relationships/live with women, don't you all just share all your products???

Same soap, but that's about it. We use different shampoos because my hair gets oily whereas hers gets dry (mine is still a 'woman's' product though). Different deodorants as well (we both avoid antiperspirants, however), as I tend to sweat more on average. I don't really use anything else aside from the occasional conditioner (which we share) and cologne, so the rest is all hers.

I don't even use the same bathroom as my wife.

I woulda thought sharing all the products (as we do) is a "masculine" attitude, in that the "man" is not supposed to care about this stuff.

Oh and the same shaving foam.

the question marks were because I didn't know there was such a niche for men to have their own soap/shampoo/etc if they are living in a family situation and don't have special needs (like eczema or other sensitivities).

i am probably a super social groomer though.

When me and my two college buddies finally got a house together, second morning I noticed three bars of soap.

"Really?" I asked. "Are we going to have three rolls of toilet paper too?"

Whenever I'd get mad at one of them, I'd use his soap instead of my own.

any nice skincare stuff I have, I slather on my partner. I have to look at him every day; he needs to preserve his beauty.

hopefully he doesn't find my past internet search history for 'harvesting skin tissue"

Hair varies a fair amount from person to person. Baldness is also more common among men.

Same goes for armpits. When it's steaming hot out, you can certainly tell the difference between my wife and me, and I'm hardly a profuse perspirer to begin with.

YMMV, of course.

I woulda thought sharing all the products (as we do) is a "masculine" attitude, in that the "man" is not supposed to care about this stuff.

― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 09:58 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

arah look if a man takes a shower in a forest, is he still wrong etc

it depends on whether or not a WWI battle was fought in the forest

I mean, yeah we share some things sometimes but I guess there are things that I’m just crazy about like e.g. SheaMoisture foaming face wash is my religion.

I’m really “sensitive” towards smells or whatever too

A lot of this new “masculine” stuff still just smells like locker rooms

Wonder if there's any Garnier that comes in Pine Tar.

nah just the laborer tar they normally use

the shower in one of my college-era bathrooms had a distinctly floral smell due to one (male) roommate who preferred herbal essences shampoo

the market segmentation of MAN products has led to a weird reconfiguration of stores where there's now two separate aisles with deodorant, meaning retailers have to choose whether brands that were relatively gender-neutral (in their marketing) get stocked in two aisles or one. I'm guessing there'll be a reversal in marketing and organization in a few years

They should organize deodorant by scents and strength. I don't buy or regularly use deodorant so will use my spouse's if it's an extreme need. He tries to buy stuff that the smell doesn't repel me since I am at his armpit height anyway. But most deodorant smells like trash. It burns my eyes.

reminded, and not for the first time on this thread probably, of Paul Newman declaring in Blaze that his political opponent is "the kind of man that puts sticky stuff under his arms!"

yeah the separate aisles thing is infuriating at my local target because the “men’s” shit is like 8 aisles away from everything else

Ok, I will admit that the JÅSÖN “men’s forest fresh” deodorant is absolutely amazing and smells more like fresh produce than manly wood or whatever

there's now two separate aisles with deodorant, meaning retailers have to choose whether brands that were relatively gender-neutral (in their marketing) get stocked in two aisles or one. I'm guessing there'll be a reversal in marketing and organization in a few years

― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 12:34 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, as I've mentioned somewhere (possibly itt), I've used the same deodorant for maybe 25 years and it has shifted back and forth between 'unisex' and 'ladies only' several times over that span. AFAICT it is currently unisex but I must travel to the ladies aisle to procure it and therefore must noisily devour a raw steak on the way to keep my testes from permanently retreating into my body cavity

which one is that?

i make my own homemade unisex deodorant and haven't shopped in either aisle for deodorant for years! hmu if you want some, i am making a batch soon! it was merch for my band that has since fizzled due to geographical challenges.

xpost Degree something. Shower Fresh, maybe? Not sure of the name. Like obscenity, I know it when I see it.

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