Move over, Bud Light. Now it's Oil of Olay.
Karen Townsend 10:41 AM on April 11, 2023
Dylan Mulvaney finds himself in another product boycott controversy. This time the product is Oil of Olay, a facial moisturizer. He is one of several models in the online ad.
Mulvaney is an actor and social media star who has been documenting his transition for a year on TikTok. He’s a favorite character at the Biden White House, embraced by Joe Biden and spotlighted in a TikTok video with him. Name brands seem to be falling all over themselves to get him in one of their online ads, in a misguided kind of way. Why do major companies think it is ok to use male models to promote products for women?
Bud Light was the last controversial move with Dylan before the Oil of Olay ad surfaced on Monday. Here we go again. With Bud Light, both men and women drink that product so it wasn’t such an insult to women as something as gender-specific as skin care products are. The same is true of the line of sports bras he advertised. Newsflash, he doesn’t need a sports bra, and jumping around like a monkey on crack while wearing one was just stupid, besides insulting to women.
Welcome to the party, Oil of Olay. Why did you do it? Is it just for publicity to get a rise out of your consumer base? This ad is alleged to have been released in March and is now surfacing because people are going through his archive to look for ads. Now there are calls for a boycott of the brand.
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