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?

Good grief op! Stop digging!

What Yourface said.

This has to be a wind up.

Also kudos for using the word fuck as many times in a sentence without it sounded too OTT

This a razor fine line

Medal in the post!

Bluebeard = five o'clock shadow, I suspect that you knew that and that this is a cunning ploy to place the brand in the consciences of m'netters without using any advertising budget! No such thing as bad publicity and all that.

What has that to do with this thread which is about a brand name you mistakenly thought was named after a wife murderer?

Absolutely nothing Soup.

Oh dear OP. I think you've provided the company with great laughing stock. So it's not a ALL entirely embarrassing and cringeworthy.

Oh come on. You're equating not having a problem with the name of a product, with not having a problem with violence against women. That offends me!

I just don't see how you can read the name of this brand as misogynistic and promoting violence against women.

Do people really have such dull lives? Surely not.

You're right, OP. You're just an amazing, caring human being. The rest of us walk on by whilst you do heroic things for the cause of women. We are not worthy of your greatness.

Guys, moment of silence please for the hero!

Must be a marketing scheme because seriously no one could be offended by this.

Just barking up the wrong tree really

I've seen this. My assumption was that it was revenge against the beard iyswim?

YABU. It's a fairytale. Get a grip. Ooh that's the first time I've ever said that on here!

It is about connotations - I made a connection that was distateful and so did some others. Some people don't know the story so they didn't make a connection. Some people don''t mind either way.

But I'm not going to just simply agree with the majority just because you say so, because I have seen what a majority can be capable of - it was frightening to see so many turning a blind eye.

Who was the one who put candles in his beard?

(Cba to google)

I was wrong about something once too OP, so rather than actually take it on the chin (LOL etc) I decided to distract from my boneheadedness by telling a story about that time when I proved I was better and more empathetic than all the other heartless sheeple I was unfortunate to share breathing space with.

No, it didn't work for me either. Bad luck.

God Mumsnet is such a bitchfest sometimes.

Okay, disagree with someone's (perfectly reasonable) point of view, but is there really any need for everyone to pile in with the catty remarks?

Look, let's all jeer at the person with a different slant on things.

All this thread has done is amuse me and made me spend £74.91 on shaving products as gifts after I googled the company...if the aim of the thread was to promote the company then consider your work here done!