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A darker side to the baffling razor ad is the subliminal/subtle/insider nod to self-harm. Hence the focus on the “sharpness” and the mastectomy scars which often accompany other self-inflicted scars.

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Yea I totally agree. That ad really made a pit in my stomach. And it’s almost like they accentuated the scars. The glorification of self harm is totally the underlying message there.

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The placement of the razor on the neck is particularly disturbing.

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I'm so so FURIOUS

Started watching 2 days ago while in the car waiting for my child, now out of the gp.

The GP where I broke down because of the toll of years of attempting to manage my child's MH and current inability to manage school.

Years of dancing on a tightrope, trying to find adequate and effective support for a beautiful and clever young person with gifts and the world ahead, experiencing normal and neurodiversity- related social difficulties at school. And seeking emotional releif in the banality of the screen, given to all students by the schools. Finding anything but benign banality, but more to distress an already traumatised and lonely little soul.

Now my years of managing the journey, avoiding the risk of therapists and doctors who would iatrogenically cause deeper indoctrination, finding very little adequate help, have found a small way out of some of the difficulties. Dealing now with more.

Dealing with things that would not be anxieties that my high iq (?E2) child would have in her head, if these things were not publicised. (Ways to commit suicide, not fitting in therefore I must be trans, I'm different so I'll be discriminated against etc etc)

Where are the armies of supporters fuelling advertisements depicting active kindness and support for the lonely, unpopular and disenfranchised- loudly calling for acceptance of those who have social limits but hearts filled with caring, loyalty and courage?

I've worked as a health provider in hospital departments that dampen down any publicity of any sort, because of the known side effect of 'copy cat' activity that follows any news piece on certain injuries/ suicide/ self harm attempts etc.

I came up to the discussion about the girl with a razor on her sternum....

Oh

THIS AD MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL

*the girl who is the model is being used...

*suicide is being advertised

*THEY ARE ADVERTISING TO A PERSON PRONE TO SUICIDE/ self harm

*they are advertising directly to vulnerable children who think only in black and white and believe what they see online

*they are carelessly feeding off, and pimping vulnerable little souls to make themselves as a company appear hip and edgy to other companies

*to me, this is close to trafficking/ abusing children for one's own gain

This is a group of despicable, sneaky and cowardly leeches, preying on the unfortunate, to fill their own coffers.

I am so angry that this is allowed...

Despicable

I'm FURIOUS

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Loved this conversation, thank you. I disagree re the secularisation of society, the issue is that science is NOT a religion, so only pseudo-science and ill-information has replaced religion. I am a hard atheist, yet my body is my temple.

I also agree we as young women have no idea what our breasts are for. As youth we may flaunt them or see them as embarrassing, but then if we have kids and use them to feed our babies, we learn about what nursing actually does beyond feeding and the utterly wondrous thing it us. I had two difficult births and was told would not be able to breastfeed due to massive blood loss. Being who I am I though, well, I couldn't give birth how I wanted, there is no way anyone is taking away my feeding my baby, and went on to feed both babies for a total of 6.5 years. And now, a few years later, I am in a position where I adore my breasts, I see my kids and hope I gave them so much through them, plus they give me so much in my personal relationship, sorry for too much info.

If you had told me any of this when I was 15 I would have not believed you.

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„They weren’t in it for the money. They were in it to do good” - this reminds me of my fav scene from Barbie Movie, when Mattel CEO says „Do you think I spent my entire life in board rooms because of the bottom line? No! I got into this business because of little girls and their dreams!”

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The "confusion" = the "queering." It is in fact a rephrased Hermeticism: "woman" or "man" is broken down to its constituent parts, each queer person chooses their a la carte menu of parts, the individuated alchemy of parts breaks the "binary" in an act of self-creation.

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On the topic of men in sports who have spoken up, Canadian powerlifting coach Avi Silverberg: https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/male-powerlifter-enters-womens-event-breaks-record/

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