Ilana Merca writes: “violence-against-women surveys are based on inflated numbers nobody questions, numbers the advocates bandy about and the politicians rely on when drafting policy and plumping for resources” in WND.

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Marketing Week reports that more people in the U.K. have been hearing negative than positive things about Gillette and that “purchase metrics have started to shift downwards”. According to Marketing Week, whilst that should be of concern to the brand, it is unclear whether it will translate into either profits or losses.

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Interesting analysis of the Gillette ad’ by Jonathan Kay in Quillette. Without taking a particular moral stance on the content, he compares it to a 1960’s advert for ‘women’s cigarettes’ and notes that while the trend back then was to support women’s liberation, now it’s trendy to hector men. He also predicts no real damage to Gillette’s business as a result of their campaign, I hope he’s wrong – but I fear he may well be right.

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Our thanks to Daniel for this random factoid! Apparently, it’s not a novel observation in written communication but there is dispute over whether it more commonly indicates excitability and emotionality or simple friendliness. But, women beware! Too many exclamation marks can be interpreted as unprofessional, especially when they come from women.

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Our thanks to Steven for this. Excerpts:

Mitigating, Adam Norris said Gregory, of East Stratton, had worked at Redlands ‘absolutely blamelessly’ since 2007 but turned to fraud because of her husband’s battle with addiction.

‘She got married in 2011, they managed their finances together, but he took to drugs and her life started falling apart because he no longer contributed financially,’ he said.

‘Because she was ashamed, she tried to find a way out of the hole her family was in. She told nobody.’…

Judge Roger Hetherington said: ‘Given that you have no previous convictions I think this is a case for suspending a sentence – it is not appropriate for a community order.’…

Detective Constable Charlie Cox, who investigated Gregory’s case, said: ‘This was a crime committed by someone trusted by parents, by pupils and by the school to look after monies passed to her. ‘Gregory abused that trust and systematically stole from the school over a three-year period much needed money [J4MB emphasis] to support her own lifestyle.

‘I am delighted that she has been brought to justice and hope that the sentence and the publicity surrounding the sentence will serve as a warning to others who might be tempted to steal from those who have placed in them their trust.’ [J4MB: How will a suspended sentence serve as a warning to others? It will surely serve as encouragement.]

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Our thanks to Haydn for bringing Christy0Misty, a young American Christian vloggeress, to our attention. Her YouTube channel is here, an example of her work is Personal Thoughts On Anti-Feminism and the Men’s Rights Movement (video, 7:13).

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Very good (video, 10:14).

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A tip of the hat to Jordan for this. The text is the transcript of the embedded video (36:06).

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Video (6:54) presenting what an equivalent short film that Gillette could target women with might look like.

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Brave and beautiful actress, Jameela Jamil conducted a Twitter rant against an Avon advertising campaign that she felt was disrespectful to women. Avon have removed all offending messaging from their marketing in response. Couldn’t possibly “body shame” women.

Meanwhile Gillette are only replying to Tweets in support of their genuinely appalling short film. Nobody worth interacting with could possibly object to demonising men, right?

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