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?

I've certainly come across the term "a blue chin" in relation to an unshaven man, so I'm perfectly happy to accept the company's interpretation of the name.

Just mystified about why that is apparently misogynistic.

I'm offended that Coke puts all their cans in lines on the shop shelves. All those drug abusing connotations. Wont someone please think of the children!

Seriously OP. Its a branding exercise that failed and some people will be just as confused at the hashed together imagery of that brand as I am the majority wont even link the name with the story.

A good pun is like (shaving) balm to the soul

Can't say it bothers me. You could say kids dressing in pirate costumes is disgraceful as they were murderers and thieves!

Although there could be a market for sinister toiletries. Little Mermaid foot balm?

There was a hairdressers in Glasgow named Sweeney Todd's.

I've never really heard the story of Bluebeard. I was aware of it being used as a term for a philanderer in old films.

Well this is awkward...

OP I dnt know the story
But if what you say is correct, it's weird. There are barbers called Sweeney Todd though...

I don't think Bluebeard strangled his wives as a pp said. Wasn't the floor in the room covered in blood when she dropped the key? And I think he tried to kill her with his sword before her brothers rescued her. Scary story but really no issue with the razor blade name. It's an ancient fairytale about a dangerous murderer rather than casually endorsing wife beating or something.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bluebeard Urban dictionary provides some interesting interpretations for 'bluebeard'. Those easily offended may one to skip to the next post

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There's a barber in my town called Sweeney Bob's

Get a grip, OP. Find a real issue to be offended about.

Oh they're always such mucky pups at Urban Dictionary.

Sweeney Bob's

Seriously??? You need to get out more..................

I'm more offended by the use of the term "real men". Surely all men are real? Except for the imaginary ones, but I suppose imaginary men can use imaginary shaving products

I am actually rehearsing the part of Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd

Perhaps I should rethink it not

EatShit I love that soap instruction blurb. Same as I love Aussie hair product ones. Witty.

It's really a very tenuous thing to get uppity about though isn't it?

I've always called my dad Bluebeard as it is a very accurate physical description, even though he shaves daily by early evening his face is blue and sandpapery from the new stubble.

I am sure I am not the first person ever to call someone blue beard if their stubble makes their face look blue, nothing to do with character or that particular man's attitude to his wife/wives.

I can see your point. It might seem trivial but it's all the little things that add up to the big things in this world and that consequently create a culture.

I was perusing Superdrug earlier and their website drew my attention to Skinny tanning mousse. Now that is a shit brand name, further whipping us with the you must be skinny and perfect whip which is silly because the reality is plump people with tango skin looking like an orange in clothes, or if they really over do it, like they've rolled in the mud.

Blue beards revenge? Nah, can't get worked up tbh.

I was vaguely offended for about three seconds by a kids shampoo that had some quote in the back supposedly by a child along the lines of living on the moon and people having weird orange hair. As a redhead I thought "cheeky bugger".

Speaknowords - I also find cut throat razors alarming, so knowing the fariytale (and knowing he wasn't a pirate) it made me think... what?!? Just such bad connotations. My husband only knew vaguely about blue beard meaning stubborn stubble - but he knew about the Bluebeard fariytale. So do others I have just asked who don't think IABU.

Rainbow: the site I saw selling it called it Bluebeard's Revenge - no 'The'.

But I guess, if a lot of you on AIBU think it's all fine, then society is in safe hands - clearly there is nothing whatsoever to worry about...

I've heard of Bluebeard as a way of describing stubble, I haven't heard of the story of Bluebeard the wife murderer.

That's about as much enthusiasm I can muster up for the product or this post.