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?

Oh don't mention candles in beards. A hipster could be reading this and have a 'bright' idea. Take heed!

I know I shouldn't laugh but ..........

Thanks Derek! does it smell manly?! I love manly smells 😏. Actually it's for DDad and DB so probably shouldn't sniff too much 😏

I think the sarcastic remarks are being provoked by the OPs "holier than thou" approach to the topic. Suggesting that anyone who disagreed must not have experienced violence, that anyone who disagrees must also support violence against women, and would stand by and let it happen should they be witness to it.

I'd like the OP to explain again how the brand name is misogynistic and promoting violence against women? You completely reject the explanation that the company gives?

So, OP, you think that those of us who do not see the problem with a toiletry range named after a "stubble effect" would ignore someone getting abused in the street?

Really??

There's agreeing with the majority, and then there's accepting graciously that you're in the wrong.

I believe that you will still think YANBU, Op. And that's fine. Even though 99.99% of the rest of the the posters think YABU YABU YABU.

The 'the' makes all the difference.

I don't quite understand the connection between the skull and cross bones, 5 o' clock shadow and 'real men' tbh, but 'the Bluebeard's revenge' is different to 'Bluebeard's revenge'.

I do agree how common casual misogyny is, but I think this branding is promoting violence against stubble, not women.

#firstworldproblem

Ooh they're based in my city. Will have to buy some stuff for ds soon, I like their style!

Ps op, if I saw someone being abused like that I wouldn't 'follow' them. I'd bloody get in there and stop it

YANBU

Skull and crossbones can just mean death, maybe it's death to the stubble?

Its really simple you DID make the wrong connotation.

If you are going to get offended and complain about somethinjg..

1. make sure you understand the thing first, research it, go to the source before going off half cocked and getting it thoroughly wrong.

2. Then complain.

3. Its not about Bluebeard (who wasnt even a pirate, he was a French Aristocrat) so thats the first clue.

4. Its about stubborn facial hair called 'The Bluebeard'

5. The product is called 'The BlueBeard'

6. Pirate logo is just to catch attention from all the other brands.

7. Ergo nothing to complain about, nothing to offend anyone, energy and time wasted.

Yet you are taking offence at this being pointed out and appeaar to think you are right and everyone else is wrong, despite the evidence, and still fixating about glamourising violence to women, why?

There's a bar and pie shop called Sweeny & Todd's in Reading. HTH.

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I suspect this is just a goady fucker thinking they are taking the piss out of feminists and others protecting women's rights.

Reported. Don't feed it folks.

The worst thing about the company's advertising isn't the name, it's the heteronormative advertising about 'ladies' and 'real men', I don't usually notice these things, but I suddenly had an insight into what it would be like to be gay (with a nice bluebeard) and find myself completely outside the 'ladies love a real man' advertising.

Apparently if you buy this 'your good lady' will be swooning. Ugh, it's like Nuts magazine for beards!

surely no one wants to market a shaving balm that references a fictional killer barber???

There's a barbers in town called Benjamin Barker (Sweeney Todd was an alias)

YABU - I'm all for stuff being non sexist but as already mentioned I think you have made a mistake with this one as it isn't referring to the folk tale Bluebeard at all.

To be honest, even if it had been referring to the folk tale Bluebeard I would have still said YABU as he was fictional and he was killed for strangling his wives not cutting their throats . The link would have been too tenuous.

With all the shite that is going on in the world I think you could've found something a Little more important to worry about.

You'd better not have a nosey round my bathroom OP. I have the cut throat razor which my DP bought for my birthday last year. Its a cracking bit of kit, and tidies up my beard a treat. She wasnt offended in the slightest to buy it for me, and she has known more than her share of violence in her life.