Cooking over Charcoal = Toxic Masculinity?

[Alpha Suerte]

I was curious if anyone here caught the new Gillette Ad which encourages us to shed our "toxic masculinity," which apparently includes cooking over charcoal. I'm now on the brink of taking my Weber collection to the dump. Any advice?

 

[Murdy]

Have a beer!

 

[chef jimmyj]

Scratch yourself, fart and spit too! They can have my Weber when they pry the Tongs and Spatula from my cold dead hands!...JJ

 

[Alpha Suerte]

Have a beer!

Right after I take this shot of Bourbon!

 

[chef jimmyj]

Treating women with respect? ABSOLUTELY!
Raising one or more future generations of men to be passive and sensitive, where very emotion is ok but Aggression? Sounds like a perfect PC world...
Yeah, that will be great when any other country, that teaches boys to be MEN, decides to invade America! American men will be easy to find. They will be cowering in their Judgement Free Safe Places hugging their Participation Trophies.
I don't have sons, but my three Daughters will kick the living S#!T out of any guy that gets out of line with them...JJ

 

[Alpha Suerte]

Treating women with respect? ABSOLUTELY!
Raising one or more future generations of men to be passive, sensitive. Every emotion is ok but Aggression? Sounds like a perfect PC world...
Yeah, that will be great when any other country that teaches boys to be MEN decides to invade America! American men will be easy to find. They will be cowering in their Judgement Free Safe Places hugging their Participation Trophies.
I don't have sons, but my three Daughters will kick the living S#!T out of any guy that gets out of line with them...JJ

That's part of what gets to me about this. If some corporation was telling us to temper "toxic femininity", the masses would be up in arms. However, somehow equating masculinity with toxicity is ok. If the message was: "demeaning behavior is wrong, no matter your gender traits," than there would be no problem here.

 

[275]

That's part of what gets to me about this. If some corporation was telling us to temper "toxic femininity", the masses would be up in arms. However, somehow equating masculinity with toxicity is ok. If the message was: "demeaning behavior is wrong, no matter your gender traits," than there would be no problem here.

Just the social pendulum swinging to it's extreme, sometimes i think we're incapable of balance. It's all a part of the domestication of humans, same as why we shouldn't be allowed to do barbaric things like hunt or even eat meat. My wife and I worry about the world my son has to grow up in.

For what it's worth my Gillette stuff is now in the bin.

 

[bbqbrett]

Haven't seen the ad yet but had heard some about it. Did not know about the cooking over charcoal part though. Funny, I know some women that like cooking that way to. Should they also be considered toxic?

 

[Alpha Suerte]

Haven't seen the ad yet but had heard some about it. Did not know about the cooking over charcoal part though. Funny, I know some women that like cooking that way to. Should they also be considered toxic?

Yes. Toxic femininity.

 

[SlickRockStones]

Are bikinis feminely nontoxic?

 

[Alpha Suerte]

Are bikinis feminely nontoxic?

Affirmatory. You're approaching feminine purity right there.

 

[chef jimmyj]

I could not believe they took the Swimsuit competition out of the Miss American Pagent. Why not just put all the girls in Burqas. Ask them a bunch of questions to determine the winner. IN FACT, just have the girls fill out a questionnaire on line. That way short, tall, fat or thin, with or without any talent, Miss America is only judged on her intelligence. The United States will have no problem beating the incredibly beautiful women from other countries in the Miss Universe Pagent. She will be so much smarter than the rest...JJ

 

[Alpha Suerte]

My wife and I worry about the world my son has to grow up in.

That's where my wife and I are at as well.