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[King Zultan]

They're like sawn-off crickets, they are also bugs there for you should kill them since they're in your house.

[Egan_BW]

Nearly as complete an exercise in pointless futility as trying to kill all the bacteria in your house.

[Great Order]

They look like the sodding crickets from King Kong that attack the party when they're stuck in that chasm.

Fucking scene's horrifying man.

[MrRoboto75]

Nearly as complete an exercise in pointless futility as trying to kill all the bacteria in your house.

I saw that Invader Zim episode.

[None]

They're like sawn-off crickets, they are also bugs there for you should kill them since they're in your house.

i'm wondering if fighting bugs and moving dirt is the best way to make a living

[Egan_BW]

They're like sawn-off crickets, they are also bugs there for you should kill them since they're in your house.

i'm wondering if fighting bugs and moving dirt is the best way to make a living

When the bugs start to feel like family, you know it's time to quit.

[MrRoboto75]

They're like sawn-off crickets, they are also bugs there for you should kill them since they're in your house.

i'm wondering if fighting bugs and moving dirt is the best way to make a living

When the bugs start to feel like family, you know it's time to quit.

"I'm going to call you Steeve"

[Robsoie]

[Egan_BW]

I'm doing my part!

[JoshuaFH]

They're like sawn-off crickets, they are also bugs there for you should kill them since they're in your house.

i'm wondering if fighting bugs and moving dirt is the best way to make a living

When the bugs start to feel like family, you know it's time to quit.

"I'm going to call you Steeve"

You make this team really wholesome!

[EuchreJack]

Cannes, France, 20 June 2022 – UN Women and the Unstereotype Alliance, an industry-led coalition convened by UN Women to eradicate harmful stereotypes in advertising, today launched “The Levers of Change: Gender Equality Attitudes Study 2022, the latest iteration of a bi-annual global study that tracks attitudes towards gender. The 20-country-wide survey shows that some antiquated views of gender have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, developed under the leadership of UN Women in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, Kantar, Procter & Gamble and Unilever,

On the bright side, at least Russia isn't on the Human Rights Counsel anymore...

[Lord Shonus]

Cannes, France, 20 June 2022 – UN Women and the Unstereotype Alliance, an industry-led coalition convened by UN Women to eradicate harmful stereotypes in advertising, today launched “The Levers of Change: Gender Equality Attitudes Study 2022, the latest iteration of a bi-annual global study that tracks attitudes towards gender. The 20-country-wide survey shows that some antiquated views of gender have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, developed under the leadership of UN Women in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, Kantar, Procter & Gamble and Unilever,

Kantar's a data analysis company, the rest make beauty products. The beauty industry has had an increasingly strong connection to women's activism in the last 20 years or so because it has proved to be an incredibly effective marketing tool.

[EuchreJack]

Cannes, France, 20 June 2022 – UN Women and the Unstereotype Alliance, an industry-led coalition convened by UN Women to eradicate harmful stereotypes in advertising, today launched “The Levers of Change: Gender Equality Attitudes Study 2022, the latest iteration of a bi-annual global study that tracks attitudes towards gender. The 20-country-wide survey shows that some antiquated views of gender have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study, developed under the leadership of UN Women in partnership with Johnson & Johnson, Kantar, Procter & Gamble and Unilever,

Kantar's a data analysis company, the rest make beauty products. The beauty industry has had an increasingly strong connection to women's activism in the last 20 years or so because it has proved to be an incredibly effective marketing tool.

But gee, doesn't the beauty industry benefit from gender inequality?
And if you read the article, one of 'em stated in glowing terms that "over half of our ad campaigns are considered progressive".
... what does that make their remaining ads?

The fact that the beauty industry that caters, manipulates, and profits off women are the key sponsors, instead of, I dunno, the auto industry, or even the entertainment industry, speaks volumes.

*Deep breath*
But hey, at least someone is funding the research and the PR.

[Lord Shonus]

But gee, doesn't the beauty industry benefit from gender inequality?

They benefit to some degree from the beauty culture that was produced by said inequality. Even that, however, overstates the case. While women do have a strong "look good" acculturation, that isn't inherently an obsolete "your only value is getting a man" concept, and the beauty companies make a mint off of "look good and feel good for YOU" campaigns. They're also making a ton of money on a rising "men need to look good too" market that is only boosted by eroding the cultural inequalities - erasing the cultural concept that moisturizers and nice soaps and hair dye and... are "silly girl things" is a key part to getting men to buy them.

This is fundamentally a good thing. Cold cash is a much better motivation to push companies in the right direction than feel-good campaigns that vanish in the wind as soon as whatever scandal you're trying to bury goes away.

And if you read the article, one of 'em stated in glowing terms that "over half of our ad campaigns are considered progressive".
... what does that make their remaining ads?

This isn't a two-spot axis - "neutral" is a position, "not considered particularly possessive" =/= "regressive".

[lemon10]

But gee, doesn't the beauty industry benefit from gender inequality?
And if you read the article, one of 'em stated in glowing terms that "over half of our ad campaigns are considered progressive".
... what does that make their remaining ads?

The fact that the beauty industry that caters, manipulates, and profits off women are the key sponsors, instead of, I dunno, the auto industry, or even the entertainment industry, speaks volumes.

The fact that massive multinational beauty corps are supporting this seems to suggest that no, they don't actually benefit from gender inequality.

Which makes sense. After all, woman buy the vast majority of beauty products, so the more money you give them the more beauty products they will buy.
Not only this, but even if they aren't working more equal gender roles mean they would have more power in their household, and thus be able to take a larger portion of the household money to spend on making themselves look pretty.

What they *do* benefit from is promoting unrealistic standards of beauty which drives young girls to suicide and leaving many others with permanently damaged self esteem.