For American males who want a simple, straightforward soap without accidentally signally sub-standard masculinity, Irish Spring bar soap cleans, leaves skin feeling as though cleaning was done, has a distinct odor of cleanliness, and does not signal femininity.
It is a recognizable brand, so using it does not signal potentially unmasculine attention to cleaning products.
It does not soften skin particularly, and intentionally softening ones skin may be assumed to signal femininity.
It is not floral or ‘fruity’ in odor.
Irish Spring: the safe soap choice for men who haven’t budgeted one more reason to put their manliness in question!
Your intense concern with “signaling sub-standard masculinity” (you mention it 6 times in this endorsement) is weird and squicks me out. It doesn’t signal good things. And since your entire endorsement is based on what the soap signals what you signal is very relevant to whether or not I would want to use the product.
I actually use Irish Spring though—it’s cheap and has this nice green color. But I also totally use my girlfriend’s lavender deodorant after I sleep over, so what do I know?
I didn’t downvote, because your rec has caused me to want to try Irish Spring. On the other hand, that’s because smelly cleansing products (regardless of their gender signalling) set off my allergies, and your emphatic branding of this soap as MANLY soap was just too much for my contrarian tendencies to ignore.
For American males who want a simple, straightforward soap without accidentally signally sub-standard masculinity, Irish Spring bar soap cleans, leaves skin feeling as though cleaning was done, has a distinct odor of cleanliness, and does not signal femininity.
It is a recognizable brand, so using it does not signal potentially unmasculine attention to cleaning products.
It does not soften skin particularly, and intentionally softening ones skin may be assumed to signal femininity.
It is not floral or ‘fruity’ in odor.
Irish Spring: the safe soap choice for men who haven’t budgeted one more reason to put their manliness in question!
I would like textual feedback to match the downvotes allotted this entirely sincere and well-caveated endorsement.
Your intense concern with “signaling sub-standard masculinity” (you mention it 6 times in this endorsement) is weird and squicks me out. It doesn’t signal good things. And since your entire endorsement is based on what the soap signals what you signal is very relevant to whether or not I would want to use the product.
I actually use Irish Spring though—it’s cheap and has this nice green color. But I also totally use my girlfriend’s lavender deodorant after I sleep over, so what do I know?
I did not downvote it, but It reads like an ad targeted at the same demographics as do penis enlargers, insecure and probably low-intelligence males.
I didn’t downvote, because your rec has caused me to want to try Irish Spring. On the other hand, that’s because smelly cleansing products (regardless of their gender signalling) set off my allergies, and your emphatic branding of this soap as MANLY soap was just too much for my contrarian tendencies to ignore.