godawful Gillette ad of man shaving his pubes

[ThatNimblePeer]

Sorry for the unpleasant topic but it’s driving me mad! Is this happening to anyone else? Every time I try to watch any video on YouTube, the ad that comes up is a Gillette ad of a man in the shower with a deep voice intoning ‘going to groom down there are we?’ There then follows a close-up of the man shaving hair off his body, not actually his pubes but as close as they can decently show. It is absolutely emetic and this has been going on for months. YouTube won’t show me any other ad. Apart from anything else I’m female so male shaving products are not relevant to me!!!! But also it’s so gross!!!! Not sexy or trying to be. It actually makes me feel sick. How do I make it stop?!!!!! I’m guessing I must have selected at some point that I didn’t want ‘targeted’ ads (I.e. ones they think are relevant to women in their early forties, of anti-aging cream etc) and this is how YouTube is punishing me. It’s relentless!

YABU - never seen or heard of this ad, you must have hallucinated it. Accept the targeted ads and come over to the world of Dove face cream

YANBU - it’s following me around too and yes, it’s unforgivably awful

Adverts being about "taboo" subjects which shouldn't be taboo, like medical conditions down there, adult incontinence, periods etc are designed to make it easier to talk about

Choosing to shave pubes is not on a level with periods

But it's not the 1950s, this line gets trotted out constantly.

'raise awareness ' 'increase visibility ' - we do talk about periods, vaginas, penises, sex - it's never shut up about! Yes, that's great, but we don't need it shoved in our faces 24/7. It's all gone too far. Kink is now basically mainstream. I think we need to do a little rewind and get some sense of balance back! Because it's tipped the scales into 'inappropriate ' territory

I do shave my armpits sometimes. Not sexually repressed but definitely not sex positive (feminist, so definitely not) - it seems to me that women are falling straight into the trap of what men like - and what men like is young girls. Nasty.
And shaving your pubes causes spots and abrasions. Not nice either.

No, but completely shaved women do. It's a fetish. Anyway, I prefer men with beards.
Shaving the body hair on a woman before her marriage used to be part of rituals to make her appear clean. It's a male interest, not a female one. Don't shave, look like a woman, not a manequin in a shop window.

Havent seen it, cant do you AIBU as I dont want to say you're hallucinating.

Completely agree.

I find it offensive that pubic hair is seen as something "gross" and unpalatable. It's actually nature's idea of "plumage" . Preening the bikini line and having a tidy up is totally understandable, but fully shaved is just playing into porno and mens ever demanding idea of what's acceptable on a woman's body.

I think it all became a thing when oral sex became something everyone did (men didn't like the idea of hair during that particularly act )

Thank you. Sometimes I wonder at the total lack of understanding of how pornified this is.

I think we're so brainwashed now that it's just "standard" . It's rather sad really. Hate to say it, but "bring back the 90s" probably the perfect time to grow up in. All the freedoms and liberations at their finest, before the extremism and "so open minded your brain is mush " kicked off .

And to think it was embarrassing when “Whooaaa Bodyform!” cranked up when your Dad / brother were in the same room…