{"id":394267,"date":"2019-01-26T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T11:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/toxic-masculinity-and-white-privilege\/"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T11:02:58","slug":"toxic-masculinity-and-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/toxic-masculinity-and-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Masculinity and White Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just a forewarning,\u00a0this is one of the most controversial Conversations With Casey we\u2019ve ever published<\/strong>. You might want to skip reading this one if you\u2019re easily offended.<\/p>\n

Justin:\u00a0<\/strong>Doug, what did you think of\u00a0that Gillette ad<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Doug:\u00a0<\/strong>The first thing that came to mind was that, when I was a kid in the \u201950s, Schick razors used to sponsor boxing on television. Boxing, ritualized unarmed combat, is about the height of masculinity. It was, logically, sponsored by a razor company.<\/p>\n

Now, we have a razor company that\u2019s saying that almost any kind of masculinity is toxic. It\u2019s a complete turnaround, an inversion. And, just as an FYI, Schick has run ads making the same point. As have Dollar Shave Club and Harry\u2019s \u2013 both of which are owned by major corporations. I never previously cared what kind of razor I used \u2013 never even noticed the brand. But I\u2019m simply not going to buy their stuff from now on, simply because I refuse to support these despicable people even on the tiniest level. I suppose I\u2019ll give\u00a0Porter Stansberry\u2019s OneBlade razor<\/a>\u00a0a second shot. It\u2019s a great shave, just rather retro.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Gillette ad basically says you should be ashamed to be a man, particularly if you\u2019re a white man. The ad \u2013 which happens to have been directed by a woman I\u2019ll describe as borderline psychotic \u2013 portrays men as horrible human beings. I haven\u2019t done a count, but the only men even trying to do the right thing and moderate so-called toxic masculinity, are black men. So it\u2019s not just that being a man is bad, but being a white man is particularly bad. No wonder 60,000 American white men commit suicide with opioids every year.
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Just a forewarning,\u00a0this is one of the most controversial Conversations With Casey we\u2019ve ever published. You might want to skip reading this one if you\u2019re easily offended. Justin:\u00a0Doug, what did you think of\u00a0that Gillette ad? Doug:\u00a0The first thing that came to mind was that, when I was a kid in the \u201950s, Schick razors used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}