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Will P&G rename Fairy Liquid?
With Quaker/PepsiCo renaming Aunt Jemima, Mars renaming Uncle Ben's, and Conagra renaming Mrs. Butterworths due to racist connotations, do you think P&G might rename Fairy Liquid to something else due to the LGBT slang term "fairy"? Perhaps they might rename it to the U.S. brand Dawn. However, the last time P&G tried this in Germany it flopped badly with consumers. What do you think?
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I dont know this brand but was it specifically made to make fun of LGBT people? The whole point of the other changes, was that the names were definitely based on discrimination. I dont see how simply using the word Fairy means this has to be changed. And I say this as a member of the LGBT community.
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Re: Will P&G rename Fairy Liquid?
maverick4002 wrote:I dont know this brand but was it specifically made to make fun of LGBT people? The whole point of the other changes, was that the names were definitely based on discrimination. I dont see how simply using the word Fairy means this has to be changed. And I say this as a member of the LGBT community.
Fairy is a brand of dish soap sold in most of Europe, equivalent to Dawn in the United States. I don't think it was made with any LGBT connotations in mind.
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I am worried Transmission lines are going to get a bad name.
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At least here in Germany there is no connection between Fairy(Fee) and LGBT. And it is a major brand, they are not going to change the name.
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1337Delta764 wrote:maverick4002 wrote:I dont know this brand but was it specifically made to make fun of LGBT people? The whole point of the other changes, was that the names were definitely based on discrimination. I dont see how simply using the word Fairy means this has to be changed. And I say this as a member of the LGBT community.
Fairy is a brand of dish soap sold in most of Europe, equivalent to Dawn in the United States. I don't think it was made with any LGBT connotations in mind.
Teaching my gran to suck eggs, but while "fairy" in itself is an inoffensive word describing a mythical creature (though rarely pink), it is also a mildly derogatory term most often (but not exclusively) aimed at an effeminate man.
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Hopefully not. Gays have had great fun with the brand over the years, and often go out of the way to buy it, so maybe the name is actually an asset. I'm sure you'll find SOMEONE who finds it offensive -- like the aforementioned brands in the US -- but there will always people looking for offence, so I wouldn't be surpised at all if this does crop up sometime. 
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“Oh no, I squeezed it too hard and now there’s fairy liquid everywhere!”
That’s it, I will never stop giggling at it.
Fred
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That’s it, I will never stop giggling at it.
Fred
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I hope not!
...signed Big Ol Queen
...signed Big Ol Queen
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I have always got a laugh out our our Anglo American name for the principle Christian festival Easter.
Old English Easterdæg, from Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also the name of a goddess of fertility and spring, perhaps originally of sunrise, whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, from *aust- "east, toward the sunrise" (compare east), from PIE root *aus- (1) "to shine," especially of the dawn. quote, https://www.etymonline.com/word/easter
Old English Easterdæg, from Eastre (Northumbrian Eostre), from Proto-Germanic *austron-, "dawn," also the name of a goddess of fertility and spring, perhaps originally of sunrise, whose feast was celebrated at the spring equinox, from *aust- "east, toward the sunrise" (compare east), from PIE root *aus- (1) "to shine," especially of the dawn. quote, https://www.etymonline.com/word/easter
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