How About Some Toxic Chicken?

The Gillette Company: We haven't purchased anything from them in years because of their animal testing policies. Now they're in the news for their "Toxic Masculinity" campaign. Is the company sincere? Who knows. We do think the campaign has been misunderstood.

Think about the headline "Toxic Chicken." You would probably think chicken with salmonella or some such. You wouldn't think the article you were about to read meant all chicken was toxic, would you? Similarly, we think the term "Toxic Masculinity" has been misunderstood.

We've highlighted a lot of bad boys over the years, most of whom have regularly beaten up their then girlfriends. Notice anything about their rap sheets? No assaults on men. Why? We're guessing because men can hit back pretty hard.

These local bullies not only do drugs, steal, and generally misbehave, they all keep their women in line with a little left hook. Some of them will have animal abuse on their records as well, but whether they've been arrested for it or not, you can count on their having abused more than their girlfriends.

And over and over, we see these women take up for these s.o.b.'s. Besides Toxic Masculinity, perhaps Gillette could showcase Imbecilic Femininity?