AIBU to object to this brand name - particularly given the nature of the product?

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Hi all,

I have name-changed for this as I am corresponding with companies and don't want them to identify me but I'm regular reader and occasional poster.

I think this brand has been around for a while, but I have just noticed it for the first time and it made me do a double take.

It is a shaving brand for men making, amongst other things, open blade/ cut throat razors... called (very questionably IMHO) 'Bluebeard's Revenge' Yes, he of the serial wife murdering fairytale fame (the character isn't a priate even though they may think he is/ try to pass him off as such - their labels carry a skull and crossbones - Blackbeard was a pirate).

I mean, what?! Razors named after not just a serial wife murderer, but after his revenge? I just don't like it at all and my husband doesn't either.

The story gave me chills as a child reading it in Grimm's fairytales and I just don't know what I would think if I saw a razor with that name on it in someone's bathroom - it is a strange character to identify with I think and more than a little questionable if you think about it for more than a second.

Knowing that domestic abuse is still sadly an issue for so many men and women, with often very violent and sad outcomes, I just can't find this brand name funny or acceptable.

So, AIBU in hating this name and wanting this brand to change it to something less offensive?

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Now you're getting offensive bad. Don't assume those of us who think you are being over the top haven't known violence, as you're showing yourself to be far more ignorant than this company.

Is this just sneaky advertising?

This is a total non event.

www.bluebeards-revenge.co.uk/about/

Panic over! It's not about Blue beard the wife killer at all.

What's the big deal?

I've just swallowed a whole bottle of laxatives and despite holding a can of Mr Sheen and a soft duster, I still can't give a shiny shit about this.

So how do you feel about the "health" food Solyent, presumably named after Solyent Green? Are you offended by a product promoting cannibalism?

isogyny rules so far but no suprise there

Speaking of Sweeney Todd, I knew a barbers called that

Is that offensive?

What about FCUK? It looks so much like the word fuck which you know can mean fucking which is sex which is a man putting a woman in her place.
Omg we must boycott FCUK!

Misogyny obviously

It's just a pirates name if it's a skull and crossbones, I'm sure more people just associate it with a pirate rather than an obscure French folk tale

Thumbelina will always be the most disturbing Grimm's fairy tale to me. Didn't they try and marry little Thumbelina off to a badger? Even 6 year old me though that inter species shizz was weird.

Worra that is fucking brilliant! I love it

As a woman who doesn't shave, I am not familiar with the term bluebeard. But this is what it means
From their website:

Bluebeards of the world, unite!

Millions of men all over the world share a common problem – that tough stubble that seems to defy the attentions of every shaving product and blunts the edge of even the keenest razor (a conundrum known as the “Bluebeard”). Add to that the mountain of other grooming woes you are constantly forced to endure and you’re faced with a daily battle that even the manliest of men can’t win.

The link above explains it - it's nothing to do with the murderer, it's something called bluebeard that is to do with shaving.

Oh. I cross posted with steppemum so what she said.

Maybe you have to have known violence from a man (or woman) or known it happen to people close to you, to realise the significance or give a shit - or just have open eyes and some empathy

Oh FFS. Seriously..... all this from a brand name for a shaving product?

Have you actually contacted the company about this OP?
How embarrassing.

Oh dear Op, I think you have over thought this, the brand is THE bluebeards revenge. A subtle difference but it is there.

I'd never heard of that particular fairytale, so would have simply assumed it was a reference or mis-reference to Blackbeard. Having read the blurb on their website, I can see their explanation for the name, which seems fair enough. I didn't and don't find the brand name offensive.

I find cut throat razors to be generally terrifying, irrespective of the brand, tbh.

Steppemum did it for me Derek
Op you are funny. Please say you haven't emailed them to complain?

All in a lather about nothing.