{"id":2456,"date":"2020-12-19T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2020-12-19T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:31:45","slug":"i-bring-you-good-tidings-of-great-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/i-bring-you-good-tidings-of-great-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"I bring you good tidings of great joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not THOSE good tidings of etc. In welcome contradiction of my recent claim concerning the routine failure of the Get Woke Go Broke boycotts to result in anybody actually, y’know, Going Broke<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In early 2019 Gillette released its infamous \u201ctoxic masculinity\u201d commercial which effectively accused its loyal customer base of being bullies and sexual predators. That ad sparked an angry backlash of men who are fed up with SJW attacks on them, and who vowed to stop buying Gillette products. (I\u2019m one of them.) Six months later Procter & Gamble had to take an $8 billion impairment charge due to Gillette\u2019s declining sales and the declining book value of the Gillette brand, which caused P&G to have an overall $5 billion loss that quarter.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know how many millions of men quit buying Gillette products after it went hyper-woke, because P&G isn\u2019t telling us. But the Securities and Exchange Commission does require P&G to document problem areas and potentially impaired assets.<\/p>\n

Procter & Gamble\u2019s 10-K published in August for the fiscal year ending 6\/30\/2020 is a long slog of a report, but in summary, things are going well for all P&G units except \u201cShave Care\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hilariously, P&G attempts to lay the blame for Gillette’s sudden collapse on…wait for it…waaaait for it…THEVIRUSTHEVIRUSTHEVIRUS!!!\u2122<\/strong> Because, y’know, reasons<\/em>. Buck cheerfully takes a lance to that lame-ass boil.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s weird, but as I perused this 10-K report, I found that there is only one P&G unit that may have an upcoming impairment charge, and that one unit is its \u201cShave Care\u201d unit. Covid apparently isn\u2019t having an impact on Old Spice sales (Old Spice is part of P&G\u2019s \u201cBeauty Care\u201d division), but those same men still buying Old Spice aftershave have stopped buying Gillette razors. Yeah right. Or maybe it\u2019s because P&G hasn\u2019t yet run any commercials where it slanders its Old Spice users as bullies and sexual predators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

P&G tries out several other rationales while scrupulously avoiding any mention of the ill-considered foray into the Kingdom of Woke as a possible cause for Gillette auguring in. Lest we forget, the Male Hate ads were by no means Woke Gillette’s only misfire:<\/p>\n

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Go out there and slay the day \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffc \ud83d\udcf8 Glitter + Lazers pic.twitter.com\/cIc0R3JfpR<\/a><\/p>\n

— Gillette Venus (@GilletteVenus) April 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n