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[little-doses-of-sunshine]

The Gillette ad is not anti-male. It’s pro-male. It’s anti-rape, anti-violence, and anti-misogyny.

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I love how one of the points in the “L’Oreal” ad that @derfrauenschlaeger  posted was implying that woman could be “better” if they just offered to suck men’s dicks more.

THIS IS THE EXACT KIND OF BEHAVIOR THE GILLETTE AD WAS CALLING OUT AS TOXIC MASCULINITY YOU IMBECILE.

That “ad” was equating women’s domestic abuse of men and internalized misogyny of women hating on other women (two traits some women possess and yes, need to be called out)...with women not sucking men’s dicks enough.

I mean, again some of the behavior the fake ad mentioned is true of some women. So there could have been opportunity for a decent opposing response arguing, hey, some men exhibit toxic behavior but women are guilty of toxic behavior as well and need to be better too.

However, the point was utterly lost when they brought women being “better” if they just gave random men more blow jobs. As if a man sexually harassing a woman (pointed out in the Gillette ad) is on par with women not going up to random strange men taking naps on lawns to offer to suck them off.

(Note, the Gillette ad didn’t say anything about men being better if they took out the trash more or went to the store to buy their wife’s tampons-common “normal” complaints of women against men on par with “aww my wife doesn’t go down on me as much as I’d like”).

Also note, the Gillette ad is not attempting to “talk a rapist off the ledge” as the “break down” video argues. No. That’s not it at all. A rapist is going to be a rapist. An ad like the Gillette ad isn’t going to make them think “oh, yeah, I guess rape is bad!”

(Side note about the “break down video”: would have been a bit more powerful if the guy doing it didn’t hurl insults at those he’s criticizing like calling Ana Kasparian “hook nose”...as if that affects what points she’s making? I’m sorry, what was said about stawman earlier...???)

The Gillette ad is directed at other men who enable rapists by either 1) finding excuses for their behavior - “boys will be boys” or 2) make jokes of a rapists behavior - “don’t drop your soap in the prison bathroom! Har har har!”

I read an article recently about a rape victim (female) who had watched the video of her rapists “police interrogation”. She said that while she was treated like a criminal and a liar when she was being questioned about her attack “What were you wearing” “How much did you drink” “Did you do anything do encourage him” etc....her rapist was treated like “one of the boys” among the police men who were handling him saying things like “I’m sure it’ll all blow over, you’ll be fine, she’s clearly lying” etc. The police officers were comforting the rapist while making the victim feel like it was her fault.

The rapist in that scenario, again, probably wouldn’t be “talked off the edge” by the Gillette ad. The Gillette ad was directed at the police officers handling the case telling them - “hey, you need to reevaluate the behavior you exhibit when dealing with rape victims and the men they’re accusing because too many women still fear coming forward with their stories of sexual assult because they’re afraid someone like you might brush them off and sweep their case under the rug by playing favorites based on gender.”

And I’m sorry, when comments on that Gillette ad say things like “Well fine then, do you want your son to be a fucking faggot who gets beat up at school” then the comments about men proving their toxicity is NOT strawman. So many of the comments on the YouTube page “accuse” Gillette of being “Jewish-owned”, saying “Don’t trust a Hebrew advertising company”, calling anyone who likes the video a “libtard”, saying the only people who will now buy Gillette are “gays and transvestites”, “Gillette is encouraging a movement that encourages women not to shave, ironic”, “feminazism”...so many other hateful and/or misinformed ignorant things.

AND, when the men saying they will stop buying Gillette razors because of this ad are the SAME ones calling the liberals “Snowflakes” for boycotting places like Hobby Lobby and Chic-fil-A for their controversial political stances (ohh but businesses like Gillette should stay out of politics!), again the people pointing this out are not using stawman. It’s just fucking fact.

Also, if anyone is going to try to compare the Gillette ad criticism with Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A by saying ��well you don’t see Hobby Lobby calling all women sluts do you? We’re mad at Gillette because they insulted us!” Just stop right now.

Gillette put out an ad that took on a very real issue in our society. That ad doesn’t directly affect anyone. It’s just words. Hobby Lobby not covering any kind of contraceptive for it’s female employees - even if the contraceptive is for non-contraceptive purposes - taking the pill for regulating menstrual cylces, severe hormonal acne, managing endometriosis, ovarian cysts, reducing risk of uterine cancer OR Chick-fil-A continuing to donate to anti-LGBT groups - THAT DOES directly affect someone! Many a someones. So don’t even fucking start.

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Refreshing to get a positive reaction out of my bf from having him watch the gilette ad. He wasnt offended nor did he feel attacked. He said it made him feel hopeful. He said it felt like this is a positive sign of a collective social shift in the way men treat women and children.

if you are a good man, you could probably relate to how my boyfriend feels. The ad IS pro-man. Its just anti-Misogyny, anti-violence, and anti-rape.

For men offended by the gillette ad, you feel targeted. And if you feel targeted then good. Stay sour about it baby man.

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The Taboo History of Women’s Body Hair in Art

Venus of Urbino, 1538. Titian Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Women think a lot about their body hair—and how to get rid of it. Judging by the multi-billion-dollar success of the global hair removal market, female body hair is still a taboo, one that has dominated Western culture for eons.

Last year, the women’s shaving start-up Billie broke with a century of tradition with an ad campaign featuring women shaving hairy legs, an apparently radical departure from the women dragging razors over perfectly smooth, airbrushed ones in Gillette’s long-running Venus commercials.

Marble statue of Aphrodite, 1st or 2nd century C.E. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Venus, 1490s. Sandro Botticelli "Botticelli Reimagined" at Victoria & Albert Museum, London

The media’s adulations seemed to announce that a new era of openness was upon us. As art historian Jill Burke wrote, “Research into women’s personal grooming habits is, in many ways the study of systems of inequality…a woman’s body is imperfect unless it is somehow modified.”

More recently, female body hair has gained a political resonance as many women today forego shaving as a feminist or fashion statement. Feminist artists such as Sylvia Sleigh chose to engage with the body in paintings that strove for honesty. Her 1968 portrait of artist Eleanor Antin shows her reclining, odalisque-style, on a couch, unperturbed by her prominent patch of dark pubic hair.

Still, archaic ideas around body hair remain hard to break. The feminine beauty standard of “the hairless ideal” has been molded and reiterated by male artists since ancient times. Female body hair was considered barbaric, uncivilized, or low-class in Greek culture. Recipes to remove hair—from plucking to shaving to sugar waxing—have existed all over the world for thousands of years.

Eleanor Antin, 1968. Sylvia Sleigh Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd.

Historian Alice Macdonald observes that in Greek art, the “smooth marble bodies” of their sculptures, “whether hairless because of artistic censure or because they reflected the social custom of depilation—have over the centuries structured the cultural imagination in such a way as to make the glabrous female body an entrenched and irresistible feminine aesthetic.” By contrast, male nudes from the same period have hairless chests, but unlike their female counterparts, sport stylized pubic hair.

Praxiteles’s fourth-century sculpture of a female nude, called the Aphrodite of Knidos, is often considered the origin for some of the most persistent tropes in art and culture about women’s sexuality. The marble goddess places her right hand over her pudendum, chastely covering it while at the same time pointing to her sex. Aphrodite’s sensual pose came to be known as the Venus pudica, and has been endlessly riffed on for centuries. When Classical ideals and an interest in the human body were revived in Europe during the Renaissance, artists returned to the hairless Venus.

In Titian’s Venus of Urbino (1538), a beautiful nude woman lies supine on a divan with disheveled sheets. Her hand lightly hovers over her smooth pubic region. Macdonald explains, “The marble-like texture of her nude body—so reminiscent of ancient sculptures—suggests that her body is hairless and that the darkness that can be seen between her legs is shadow rather than body hair.”

The Three Graces, Roman copy of the Imperial Era (2nd century C.E.?) after a Hellenistic original. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

The Three Grace, 1635. Peter Paul Rubens Museo Nacional del Prado

Venus’s sexuality and missing pubic hair is further invoked by the sleeping dog curled at her feet. This furry addition reflects another long-held belief about the correlation between women’s body hair and eroticism. In ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, hirsute women were often considered wild or sinful and thought to possess an untameable sex drive.

In one narrative about the Queen of Sheba, amply represented in art from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, King Solomon forces his exotic visitor to shave her legs before he beds her. The detail about her hairy legs, Alina Cohen wrote for Artsy, “portrays her as an animal—a heathen—to be subdued, feminized, and converted.” In the Medieval Christian artistic tradition, the image of a woman completely covered by her long hair is usually the repentant prostitute Mary of Egypt.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Girl with a Dog, 1770. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Were the real women of the day as suspicious of their body hair? Historian Sandra Cavallo has noted that in the 16th century there was an “explosion in treatments for facial appearance,” evidenced by the many “books of secrets” left behind; they share DIY cosmetic advice on how to remove hair from every part of the body (all while keeping the hair on one’s head luscious and thick!).

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, especially in France, Neoclassicism “revived” the ideals of the Greco-Roman tradition. The French bred a culture with a heightened sense of eroticism. Artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard played with euphemism in his works, but didn’t stray far from the tropes that had been defining women’s sexuality for hundreds of years. In his painting Girl with Dog (ca. 1770), Fragonard mischievously displaces the female subject’s sex with a little dog over her exposed genitals; her pet’s tail stands in for her pubic hair.

In this increasingly modern era, Michel Foucault argues in Discipline and Punish (1975), there was an “emergence of unprecedented discipline directed against the body” in the second half of the 18th century. Cosmetics, dieting, and depilation, became de rigueur, self-governing practices that continue to regulate women’s lives today.

The Birth of Venus, 1863. Alexandre Cabanel Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Two kinds of artists emerged in Europe and the United States in the latter half of the 19th century: those who would continue the staid conventions of the state-sanctioned Academies and those who would fight to break their rules. Salon-approved paintings by artists like William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Alexandre Cabanel are sickly sweet and ridiculously idealized. Perhaps unsurprisingly, both artists took on the Venus theme in their work. Bouguereau’s The Birth of Venus (1879) almost parodies Botticelli’s famous version. Venus stands on a clam shell jutting out from the sea but instead of chastely covering her pudendum, she here throws her hands over her head—all the better to view her hairless, sexless genitals.

Artists from the same period who engaged with the fashionable but problematic trend of Orientalism, like Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Jean-Léon Gérôme, applied Western beauty ideals of hairlessness to their exoticizing pictures of Middle Eastern and North African women. They delighted in the opportunity to portray these figures as literal sex objects—nude in the bathhouse of a harem (The Turkish Bath, 1862) or on the auction block as a sex slave (Slave Market, 1866). Even though they are not couched in Classical allegory, these women were still refused their body hair.

The Woman in the Waves, 1863. Gustave Courbet "Inventing Impressionism" at the National Gallery, London (2015)

Bather Arranging Her Hair, 1893. Pierre-Auguste Renoir National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Contrast these paintings with works by avant-gardists like Édouard Manet, Gustave Courbet, and Edgar Degas, artists preoccupied with capturing modern life, especially the public specter of prostitution. Manet’s Olympia (1863) famously upends the Venus pudica pose of Praxiteles and Titian with a sex worker who openly acknowledges the transactional nature of her trade with the viewer.

By the late 19th century and early 20th, the idea of women’s body hair as a sign of wild sexuality became more illicit. In an ironic twist, artists began to include women’s pubic or underarm hair in their works to emphasize their sexuality. Underarm hair was not seen in public, so it was especially erotic in art. Courbet’s L’Origine du monde (1866) is the ultimate pro-body hair statement but it’s his Woman in the Waves (1863) that offers a less aggressive, more sensual view of unexpected hair. A Venus-like nymph relaxes in a pool of water, her arms lazily perched on her head—a pose that serves the dual purpose of lifting her perky breasts and exposing her hairy underarms.

Nude on a Blue Cushion, 1917. Amedeo Modigliani National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

At the same time, certain modern artists clung to the sanitized version of women’s sexuality that demanded they be clean shaven even as society opened up around them. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is perhaps the biggest offender of this view of female nudity. His Bather Arranging Her Hair (1893) is essentially the same painting as Titian’s Venus Rising from the Sea (ca. 1520), made hundreds of years earlier.

Overall, these changes in modern art were reflected by the consideration of women’s body hair in popular culture. In response to the rise of sleeveless dresses at the turn of the century, Gillette released the Milady Décolleté, the first razor marketed to women, in the United States in 1915. The same year, Harper’s Bazaar ran a scandalous shaving ad in their May issue; a model in a sleeveless dress throws up her hands. Lo and behold, no armpit hair.

In our current century, more and more women—and men—wax, thread, shave, or laser themselves bare. No matter how women choose to present their hair, the uncomfortable fact is, we have it. Our society and our beauty ideals might have followed a very different course if artists had been more open and faithful to the true perfection of the female form, body hair and all.

from Artsy News

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A Normal Man’s Guide To Loving Transgender Women

I love transgender women. Because I am out and proud about this, I get emails and calls from all kinds of people (men, women, transgender women, trans men) asking all kinds of questions about their transamory.

Men have the most trouble finding reconciliation. They find transgender women beautiful, worthy of love and, frankly, irresistible. Even while realizing dating transgender women sometimes comes with extraordinary drama levels. Despite that, many of these men aren't struggling with that. What's difficult is reconciling their attraction with being a "normal" man.

I'm writing this story –– my story –– for those men. The following is universal. Yet it is uniquely helpful for men right now. I mean "normal" men.

I write "right now" because men face intense (self-inflicted) scrutiny. Scrutiny well deserved. This January, the American Psychological Association (APA), said traditional masculinity is sociologically harmful:

"[It] stunts male's "psychological development, constrain[s] their behavior, result[s] in gender role strain and gender role conflict and negatively influence[s] mental health and physical health", they said.

Traditional masculinity is what I call normal men.

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Feminism suggests the APA's findings originate in male awe, envy and ignorance. Feminists call this Womb Envy.  That's a term coined by German psychoanalyst Karen Horney.  Normal men find awe in what they instinctively know: Every human enters life through a womb connected to a vagina. At least for now.Forgetting their part in life-creation, normal men feel insecure and envious. Their envy becomes all-consuming. Willful ignorance replaces envy, allowing the subordination of women. Normal men gain superiority this way.

The result: Masculine wholeness –– which recognizes the female in the male ––  gets lost.

This is what I'm seeing in the Gillette controversy. Men's life experience is reflecting back to them their out-of-balance-ness. Like children, some men are reacting first to Gillette's spot-on ad, then thinking. Or not thinking at all.

What does this have to do with loving transgender women?

A lot.

It is this acting out first, then thinking, or not thinking at all, that gets a lot of men in trouble. It also gets many transgender women killed. All, believe it or not, for the sake of love.

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I realized I was transamorous in my 30s. Before that, I saw "masculinity" and "femininity" as two parts of a whole being. Sometimes I felt more feminine than masculine back then. Even though I was having sex with girls.

Sometimes I would sneak into my mom's closet. It was an endless sea of femininity. There, I would dress in my mom's clothes. I used her lipstick and pranced before her full length mirror, with its ornate wooden frame and chipped paint. Her lingerie particularly intrigued me.

Often these sessions would end with masturbation.

That's how I got busted.

^^My mom when I was young (Photo: Gruber family)

One day my mom called me to her room. How did she know it was me and not one of my brothers? Let's just say it was mothers' intuition. Otherwise I don't know. In any case, my mom's love trumped anything else in our little chat. She didn't want me playing in her clothes, she said. But it was ok that I was exploring.

That could have gone a lot worse.

This was before "transgender" was a thing. I mean, it was a thing. Transgender people have always been around. But it wasn't in the public eye as it is today with high-profile transgender models, actresses, politicians, Julia Serranos, Stef Sanjati's.

Even it if was, I was too young to know what "transgender" was. Thinking about that time, and times today, I can imagine how it feels to be transgender. Not knowing you are transgender. Then discover the word "transgender" for the first time.

It must come with profound relief to know you're not alone.

The same is true for men attracted to transgender women. They think they're alone. But they are not.

When I discovered my transamory, "transamory" wasn't a thing either. I didn't know, for example Lou Reed had a long term relationship with a transgender woman. But I sure loved his song.

Nor did David Bowie's gender-bending persona catch my eye.

So when I fell in love with the first transgender woman I ever saw, in a Yakuza bar in Osaka, Japan, I was blown away. Blown away by her beauty. Blown away by the circumstances. And blown away for how deep and instantaneous my attraction was.

I was in the Marines at the time. My girlfriend, who would become one of my few fiancés took me to see her home town. She thought I'd get a kick visiting a Yakuza bar. I don't think she knew how profound that kick would be. It kicked off what would culminate in everything I am today. That and how I tell my transamory story with recovering "normal" transamorous men looking for solace.

My wife today calls me her gay boy. It's true, my feminine side is well-developed. I don't cross dress or anything like that. I do enjoy reveling in that part of me that is soft, kind, receptive and open. And yet, I do present male, although I consider myself gender neutral. I recognize the female in me as much as I do the male.

And here's where love comes into the picture. And by that I'm referring to self-love.

^^Photo: Bima Mentara on Unsplash

Many of my fellow Marines weren't as appreciative of my nature as my wife is. Or my mom. It wasn't constant, but Marines can be callous towards someone not embracing the macho, natural-born-killer persona believed to enshroud what it is to be a Marine. Of course, the occasional taunts ended once I became a Sergeant of Marines. Yet, the juxtaposition between my feminine side and my masculine side represented a crossroads back then. The path I took was embracing both. Choosing to be me, I said to hell with everyone else. After all, if I could take shit from Marines, I could take shit from anybody.

^^That’s me. Around 1982

In other words, I chose loving myself for all that I am. I chose that over caring what other people think about what I am. An aspect of what I am is a man who loves transgender women.

As I love myself, I love the blend that is the transgender female form. I love the struggle transgender women must go through. I love their strength. I love that they are sometimes reviled not only by men, women and society, but also by their parents sometimes. I love them because I know all these challenges make them who they are.

As my challenges made me who I am.

Today, I am married to a cis-woman who is working through her own process owning her lesbianism. Ours is a marriage of convenience. By that I mean, there is no better relationship for us than the one we have. It calls us to become more of that which we are. As individuals and as a couple. It has an end date because I'm transamorous and she leans gay. But for now, it works.

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I met my wife online. I hadn't been successful dating transgender women. I had relationships. but the early ones reflected my own trans-attraction insecurities. My insecurity showed up in meeting transgender women who also were insecure. Insecurity is no foundation for healthy coupledom. It didn't help that I dated in secret. In between cis-gender lovers.

Maybe that sounds familiar.

^^Me and my wife on our first date. (Photo Kyle Layser)

Insecurity transamorous men feel initially shows up in many ways. One is fear of being seen in public with the woman they find attractive. It's an early "trans-attraction" stage of transamory. It sounds dumb, but it's real. And it's a step older transamorous men go through more than younger ones these days. Some younger generation transamorous men reflect their generation. Their generation accepts gender fluidity. So they do too. So they don't experience insecurity.

Pro-tip non-sequitur for transgender women: Ridiculing and shaming men for being in this stage prolongs it. Want men to be proud to be with you in public? Stop shaming them.

When I met my wife, I was not intending to marry. I was open to a non-traditional relationship. Anyone I found attractive and compatible would do. Yet I entertained preference for a transgender partner. I knew, however, my insecurity wasn't going to match me with a transgender partner of my dreams.

My wife was determined to break her streak meeting men who were not good for her. Like me, she realized she was her problem. Not the men she dated. So we were a perfect match.

Relationships are always like that. Perfect matches.

Our marriage is a training ground. In it we are helping prepare one another for partners we eventually will have. It is our agreement. Our latest indicator our relationship is working is how we came to having an open relationship without any stress, struggle or pain.

As we together grow into our individual security, we are accepting who each other is. Our marriage reflects that. It has grown more peaceful and loving. And in that loving there is acceptance and freedom. Including freedom to explore my transamory should I choose.

If you're trans-attracted or transamorous, married or not, you can't love the object of your affection until you first love yourself. Especially if you're married. A lot of transamorous men are married to cis-gender women. There is nothing wrong in that.

Still, if you are married, your wife knows on some level that you are different. I assure you fights between you two have a lot to do with insecurity born of that awareness.

Hardness creates more struggle. So does insecurity. Extreme cases result in death. Almost half the murders of transgender women in 2017 happen in the context of intimate relationships gone awry, according to research I've done online. Seems to me the sooner you embrace who you are, the better you and everyone else will be. You'll be one less transamorous man hiding in their shame. That can prevent a murder.

^^It's time more transamorous men embrace all of who they are. (Photo: Ozan Safak on Unsplash)

Men loving transgender women is normal.

Love between humans is the norm. So it is normal that a human would express love for another human. Both men and transgender women are human. So love between them is as normal as any other love.

But I would argue there is no such thing as a "normal" man.

There are all kinds of men. The Gillette controversy shows that. If you're trying to be a normal man and think that's ok, you're not expressing your authenticity. You're expressing insecurity. Your "abnormality" is the norm. Your "perversity" is the norm. Your "sin" is the norm. Abnormality, perversity and sin are words reflecting societal judgment.

Fuck that.

Your individuality is the norm. That means there's no such thing as a normal or traditional man.

Transgender people are here to help all humanity to come to grips with the fact that to be human is to be different. There are a lot of normal men out there confronting their normalcy in light of their transamory. Some respond violently, with tragic consequences for both victim and perpetrator. Others call me, or send an email.

If you find transgender women attractive, you're in good company. All men will find the attractive ones attractive. Until they discover that attractive woman is transgender. But that doesn't negate their initial attraction. It only masks the attraction with shame expressed as revulsion. You're still attracted to her.

If you find transgender women worth loving, but struggle with it, that's ok. You don't have to figure it all out now. You will in time. My experience is, the journey is worth it. For you, for your relationships and for the human race as a whole.

The journey is sweeter, though, after you accept what you are.

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Gillette ad: hey let's hold men to higher standards

Meninists: THIS IS SEXIST AGAINST MEN FUCK PC BULLSHIT

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Meninists: hey let's go to a pro life March and harass a peaceful native American protestor chanting "build a wall"

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The Web3 software solutions company Chain announced the company has partnered with Kraft Sports + Entertainment, the owners and operators of the New England Patriots, New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, and Patriot Place. Chain details that the multi-year deal will allow the company to serve as the company’s “official blockchain and Web3 sponsor.”

Chain Inks a Deal With Kraft Sports + Entertainment, Web3 Company Plans to Work With New England Revolution and the NFL’s New England Patriots

On Thursday, the blockchain and Web3 firm Chain said it inked a multi-year deal with Kraft Sports + Entertainment, the company led by Robert and Jonathan Kraft. The firm founded in 1998 provides operational services to the NFL’s New England Patriots, the charter club of MLS’s New England Revolution, and Gillette Stadium.

The New England Patriots are an AFC East division National Football League (NFL) team that was originally founded in 1959 as the Boston Patriots. It joined the NFL in 1970 and the Patriots are tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers for winning the most Super Bowls out of all the teams in the NFL.

Chain is a blockchain company that is backed by Visa and Citigroup and the company recently worked with Tiffany & Co. and the Nftiff project. By working with Kraft, Chain “will work hand in hand to develop state-of-the-art Web3 experiences while utilizing Chain’s award-winning suite of products and services.”

“We are proud to partner with Kraft Sports + Entertainment to envision the future of Web3 for Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots, and New England Revolution,” the CEO of Chain, Deepak Thapliyal said in a statement on Thursday. “Our team is excited to help Kraft Sports + Entertainment build cutting-edge experiences for stadium visitors utilizing Chain’s proprietary blockchain technology.”

Chain is a blockchain-based technology company that was founded in 2014 and to date, it has raised $40 million from Fiserv, Nasdaq, Orange, Visa, Khosla Ventures, Pantera Capital, Capital One, and Citigroup. Chain was acquired by Stellar in 2018 and re-acquired in 2020.

The deal between Kraft Sports + Entertainment and Chain follows a number of sports deals that have been made over the last year. For instance, in mid-April, Blockchain.com inked a deal with the Dallas Cowboys and at the end of August, the company signed a deal with the Cowboys’ star quarterback Dak Prescott.

Furthermore, NFL players have also been in on the blockchain and crypto industry in some form or another.. Tom Brady, Saquon Barkley, Russell Okung, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Jones, Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski, and Odell Beckham Jr. have either been paid in crypto, done commercials, or backed an NFT project. Murray Kohl, the vice president of sales for Kraft Sports + Entertainment said his firm has “always strived to be leaders in innovation.”

“From being the first pro sports team with a website and creating the first nightly internet show to having the longest continuously running podcast in the world, we’ve embraced the opportunities that advances in technology have presented for us and our fans,” Kohl said on Thursday. “Together with Chain, we’ll look to innovate that same way with Web3. Our fans will be able to connect with the Patriots and Revolution in ways never before possible,” the Kraft Sports + Entertainment executive added.

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Billie Razors Review

The pink tax has been a known issue and a reality for several decades now. But what is pink tax, you might ask. Pink tax refers to brands tending to charge different prices for the same products, depending on whether they are targeted to men or women, with the women’s ones always costing more for no real reason. Several studies found that on average products targeted at women are 7% more expensive than those for men. And the most infamous example of this is the Gillette vs the Venus razor. And you guessed it, the Venus is more expensive than the men’s Gillette despite being an essentially identical product, produced by the same company.

That is where Billie comes in. Noticing this unfair bias towards female consumers, the brand launched a razor for women that scraps the pink tax and its price stacks up against men’s razor’s on the market. But is the Billie razor any good and is it worth the investment? And who or what is this Billie anyway? In this Billie razors review, we are going to answer those questions and more, as well as take a close look at the brand’s more recently launched products, its values and philosophy. So read on to find out.

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About Billie

Billie is a New York-based brand founded by Georgina Gooley and Jason Bravman that launched in 2017 with a range of women’s razors. Since then, the brand has released other beauty products and its offering now also includes stylish medicine cabinet essentials like a shaving cream, lip balms, dry shampoo, body wash and more.

Billie never wanted to be just another brand and launched with several missions. The first was to get rid of the unfair pink tax, as discussed above. The founders noticed that women were overpaying for razors and wanted to offer a fairly priced alternative. The way they are able to do that is by operating under an online direct to consumer system, therefore they don’t have to pay a cut to any middle man or a retail space. Additionally, the razors are available for purchase only on subscription. And while it is easy to cancel the subscription or reschedule shipments, it encourages customers to stay on.

The brand is revolutionizing the industry by displaying body hair in its imagery, used in ads, on social media and its website. This “bold” move that goes against the standards of razor campaigns, where women “shave” what can only be described as smooth glowing skin, has earned the brand coverage on sites like Nylon, Refinery29 and InStyle. This the brand calls its ‘Project Body Hair’ and it is a rebellion against women often being shamed for having body hair that is, at the end of the day, natural.

Billie falls into the category of clean beauty brands, having a long list of potentially harmful ingredients or, groups of thereof, that the brand categorically does not include in its products, such as sulfates, parabens, GMOs, drying alcohols, fragrances or dyes. The brand uses the Environmental Working Group (EWG) as a guide and only uses ingredients verified by the group or ones that receive a rating between 1 and 3/10. The EWG specializes in research of toxic chemicals among other things.

To show support for the causes close to the founders’ hearts and that go hand in hand with the brand’s values, Billie has been donating 1% of its revenue since its very beginnings to charitable organizations such as Every Mother Counts (working to make pregnancy and birth safe for all women around the world) or Black Girls Code (providing IT education to African-American girls).

Pros

Affordable pricing

Pretty and stylish design

Showing body hair and actual shaving demonstrations in imagery and videos on the website and social media

No potentially harmful ingredients included in the products

Vegan

Cruelty free

Donates 1% of revenue to charitable causes

Cons

Razors and makeup wipes are available for purchase only through signing up to the Billie subscription service

Doesn't ship internationally, only to the US

Unclear returns policy

Contactable only via email

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Razor Starter Kit Review

The Razor Starter Kit is Billie’s star product, as well as its very first. The razor has won several awards, including Allure’s Best of Beauty and making the Beauty Hit List of Nylon. The Billie razor kit is available for purchase only through the brand’s ‘shave plan’ subscription, however, the shipments can be rescheduled, skipped or cancelled any time.

The kit includes an ergonomic handle with anti-slip rubber back (you are given a choice of six colors to choose from), two rust-resistant five-blade razor refills coated in aloe vera soap for a smooth and gentle shave, and a magnetic holder so that you can keep your razor in the shower at all times, protecting it from ending up in the shower puddle. And all of that for $9 with free shipping.

When arranging your subscription on the website, Billie gives you the choice of receiving your refills either once a month, every two months or three months, depending on how often you shave. This can, of course, be changed at a later time. For every refill shipment the brand also charges $9 with free shipping and each includes four refill blades.

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Shave Cream Review

When Billie launched its beauty products, it only made sense for the range to include a shaving cream since the brand’s main product is the famed razor. And so Billie delivered the Shave Cream. Instead of the usual foam sprayed from an aerosol can that we have come to expect from shaving creams, the brand opted for an actual creamy formula. Stored in a stylish white bottle with the brand’s logo printed across in large colourful lettering, which will surely look great on your bathroom shave, the cream is made with a blend of moisturizing shea butter and olive oil, that both nourish the skin and help the razor to smoothly glide on the surface of the skin. For anti-inflammatory, soothing and healing benefits, Billie includes aloe vera and sage in the rich pillowy formula.

Keeping with Billie’s affordable price points, a 6.5 fl. oz. bottle retails for $8 and can be purchased as a one-off product, no need for a subscription. However, if you do sign up for a subscription, you can always add one of these on.

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Wonder Wipes Review

Another subscription-only product by Billie are its Wonder Wipes. The brand cites avoiding running out as the reason for them being subscription-exclusive, but just like with the Billie razor, you can change, skip or cancel your shipments of Wonder Wipes.

Wonder Wipes are essentially makeup wipes that claim to remove all of your makeup in a single swipe. And not only that. The brand goes as far as to say that one wipe can be used in place of an entire skincare routine. That we’re not convinced about.

In a time, when most are moving away from makeup wipes as they are deemed inefficient and wasteful, which doesn’t align with the current move towards sustainability, it surprising for a brand to come out with new makeup wipes and such claims on top of that.

One pack of Wonder Wipes includes 25 biodegradable wipes which can be delivered every month or two months for $9 each with free shipping. They are infused with cleansing agents, as well as hyaluronic acid and vitamin C serum for extra hydration and brightening. There is also a known difference between moisturization and hydration and while hyaluronic acid is a known hydrator, Billie claims this ingredient to deliver moisture instead.

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Dry-Bye Body Lotion Review

Another product launch that made sense for Billie to come out with was a body lotion or cream – something to soothe and moisturise the body after shaving. And so Dry-Bye Body Lotion was born. The lotion includes moisturizing shea butter, grapeseed oil to help lock in the moisture, and chamomile to calm, heal and soothe the shaved or irritated areas. The formula avoids any stickiness or greasy shiny look and instead delivers a matte finish.

The body lotion comes in a stylish bottle with a pump, similar and matching with the one of the shaving cream. They will look great sitting next to one another in your medicine cabinet. This product is available for one-off purchases and a bottle of 8 fl. oz. retails for $12.

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Sudsy Body Wash Review

To finish off the body care range, the last product is the Sudsy Body Wash. A shower gel designed for everyday use, this product has a rich and creamy texture and is both soothing and moisturizing, thanks to Billie’s recurring hero ingredients – aloe vera and shea butter, with the addition of rosehip oil, which protects and hydrates the skin, restores elasticity and is a powerful antioxidant. The formula doesn’t include any foaming agents but creates a natural lather.

As a brand made specifically for women, Billie made sure the formula is pH balanced so that it can be used all over the body, including the intimate areas, without drying out the skin. The body wash of course comes in a bottle matching the lotion and shaving cream and 12 fl. oz. retail for $9.

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Super Salve Review

Dipping its toes in the world of makeup, Billie has most recently released the Super Salve lip balm in six different variations. The $9 balm is available in three tinted options, three untinted and five of them are naturally flavoured. Despite the addition of flavour, it is highly discouraged to consume these lip balms. The collection includes:

Classic, a clear variation that is both untinted and unflavored

Minty, an untinted option with a cooling minty flavor

Sorbet, a sheer pink colour with a lemon flavor

Parsley, an untinted one with a herbal taste

Rhubarb, a wash of a red shade with a sweet flavor

Fig, a burgundy shade with a jam-like taste

With only a handful of ingredients, the formula is deeply hydrating thanks to the likes of avocado oil, sunflower oil, candellila wax (a vegan substitute for beeswax) and naturally derived vitamin E that makes the balm so smooth. It is then stored in a coloured tube (each flavour has its own colour) in a clear case. The packaging is yet again very visually appealing.

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Billie Customers Reviews

We have, of course, also looked at several existing customer reviews of the Billie razors and the company in general. What we found was that the reviews on the brand’s website are almost unanimously positive, with the razor scoring a 4.9/5 rating based on over 10,000 reviews, all singing the product’s praises how it’s not only the most affordable option out there, but the best performing one. On the other hand, searching through Trustpilot, the company as a whole has earned an overall rating of 4.2/5, which is significantly lower. While still the majority of customers left positive feedback, there are many that were most of the time dissatisfied with the customer service provided by the company. As customers can only contact Billie via email, many a time they do not receive a reply or not a very helpful one. Shipping also often takes a longer time than promised. Here are some example of the Billie customer reviews for you to make your own judgement:

“I am telling everyone I know to try this razor!! I have used many different types of razors & shavers over time and was never completely finished without at least one nick or a few left over. Not with this razor!! It felt like I wasn’t even shaving just running silk over my legs- it was actually an enjoyable experience!”

“I purchased a razor and shaving cream a month ago. Received tracking information a week later and still haven’t received the package. Contacted the company by email since they do not offer other options and did get a response saying if shipping details were not updated within 24 hours, let them know. I’ve emailed them 3 additional times since and never heard back. Completely unacceptable. I would not recommend this company.”

“I’ve been let down by every razor available on the market. I stumbled across an ad for Billie and decided to give it a try. I’m so glad I did! The closeness of the shave is unbeatable and lasts for days which has never been a thing for me. I will definitely be keeping my subscription.”

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Where to Buy Billie

Billie is exclusively an online brand, sold solely through the brand’s own website, and doesn’t have a presence in any physical stores or other online retailers.

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Billie Shipping and Return Policy

Shipping

Billie ships only domestically to all 50 US states, but doesn’t deliver internationally, not even to Canada. While the shaving plan subscription service and the makeup wipe subscription include free shipping, one-off orders under $15 are charged $4 for shipping. But again, if the order is over $15, the shipping is complimentary.

Returns

In terms of the returns policy, the brand is not very clear on this anywhere on the website. All that the site states is to get in touch with the team via email within 30 days of receiving your order. So we assume the brand operates under a 30-day return policy.

Contact Billie

If there are still questions left unanswered after reading our Billie review, we recommend getting in touch with the brand directly via:

Email at hello@mybillie.com where customer service representatives are ready to help every day of the week between 10am and 5pm ET

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Billie: Editors Verdict

Billie is an innovative brand of razors that has found a gap in the market and decided to fill it and we command the founders for it. The fact that the brand is very conscious when it comes to affordability but doesn’t let that impact the quality of the product is again something we appreciate. However, the areas we feel the brand needs to work on is its customer service, the ways in which customers can get in touch with the team, as that is currently only via email, as well as the reliability of its shipping, being an online only brand that is something Billie should have mastered. But taking all of that (and more) into consideration, do we think that Billie is worth the investment? Overall, we believe that it is. Some products certainly more than others as we find that the razor is the one to go for and perhaps the wipes to give a miss.

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Older Shoppers Are the Hot New Thing for Consumer Brands

Demographic changes and the pandemic are propelling consumer-goods companies to take a fresh look at a group of shoppers who are often ignored: the elderly.

As people live longer and have fewer babies, the number of over-65s surpassed those under five globally for the first time in 2018, according to United Nations data, and the trend has accelerated since.

The pandemic has disproportionately harmed older people, which executives say has highlighted the importance of staying healthy later in life.

That shift is prompting companies like Nestle SA, NSRGY -2.80% Colgate-Palmolive Co. CL -1.45% and Danone SA DANOY -0.56% to launch new products aimed at consumers they say are increasingly interested in aging well.

“We clearly see healthy aging, even more now with the Covid world, as a huge trend,” Danone Chief Executive Emmanuel Faber said.

Danone in November said it was setting up a new healthy-aging unit to accelerate research into how nutrition impacts cognition and mobility. The Activia yogurt maker recently launched in Brazil Fortifit Pro, a whey-protein product that claims to aid muscles, joints and bones, and said it plans to develop more products intended to help people age better.

Getting Older

The world is aging as birth rates decline and people live longer…

Global population by age group

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… in some countries old people already make up a big portion of the population, and that proportion is set to grow.

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… in some countries old people already make up a big portion of the population, and that proportion is set to grow.

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… in some countries old people already make up a big portion of the population, and that proportion is set to grow.

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… in some countries old people already make up a big portion of the population, and that proportion is set to grow.

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The number of countries with over 20% of the population aged 65 or above is estimated to rise from 15 last year to 44 by 2030, according to the U.N. That number is forecast to reach 61 by 2050, when it will include the U.S., China and Brazil.

Researchers estimate economic uncertainty related to Covid-19 will also accelerate declining birthrates in the U.S. and China.

Nestle last month launched a powdered-milk drink in China under its Yiyang brand, aimed at older adults, which it says enhances mobility during aging.

In recent years the company’s health-sciences unit has shifted its focus from making food and drink to aid the recovery of people in hospitals, to helping prevent people from being admitted in the first place, said Greg Behar, who heads the unit.

“There are more and more people who want to proactively manage their health in the aging process,” Mr. Behar said. “What is most impacting people is a drop in physical and cognitive functions and then there’s the beauty and skin element too.”

About 20% of Nestle Health Science’s research budget is now dedicated to aging. The company uses tiny nematode worms known as C. elegans, which age quickly with a lifespan of just two days, to test its nutrition hypotheses.

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC, which makes infant-formula brand Enfamil, has also launched a milk drink aimed at older consumers in China that it says contains ingredients to boost the immune system.

Overall, Reckitt says the market in China for milk with added ingredients to provide specific benefits is worth 500 million British pounds, equivalent to $686 million, and growing at 13% a year. The company is developing several products to capitalize on the self-care trend, and is expecting Covid-19 to accelerate demand.

Procter & Gamble sells the Gillette Treo, a razor designed for use by caregivers.

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Other companies are tweaking products to serve older people who they say will spend longer living at home, rather than in assisted-living facilities.

IKEA has begun selling upright armchairs with higher seating to make getting up easier, slanted footstools to promote blood circulation and jar grippers to help unscrew lids, among its products aimed at people with reduced mobility, including the elderly.

The range is part of an effort to imbue design catering to people of different capabilities across IKEA’s products, said Britt Monti, a senior designer who worked on the collection. IKEA held off on labeling the range as being specifically for the elderly, she added.

“Especially later in life you don’t want to be labeled as older,” said Ms. Monti. “We don’t want to make a big thing out of it, we just want it to be a natural part of the design process.”

Procter & Gamble Co. last year began selling a razor intended for caregivers in Canada, where the company said data show one in four people provides help to someone with aging-related needs, a disability or long-term health condition. The Gillette Treo, which was already available in the U.S., has a safety comb and a wider handle filled with shaving gel that is designed to give caregivers better control while shaving their elderly charges.

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In beauty and skin care, older consumers tend to spend more, making them a key demographic for companies like L’Oréal SA . In France, women over-65s spend 184 euros, equivalent to $223, on beauty products each year, compared with €120 for 25-to-30-year-olds, said Delphine Viguier, global brand president for L’Oréal Paris.

Last year the company said growth in the skin-care market had accelerated, driven in part by an aging population. It expects the trend to continue longer-term.

Others have found success targeting antiaging products at younger consumers.

When Colgate last year launched an upscale amino acid toothpaste in China intended to reverse visible signs of gum aging, the company focused its marketing on a young audience using celebrity bloggers and social-media apps. Colgate took the approach after Filorga, its antiaging facial-care brand, proved popular online with women between 25 and 35. The company said 80% of shoppers buying Colgate Miracle Repair were under the age of 30.

“In China aging is for the young consumer,” Colgate CEO Noel Wallace said last year. “They are taking antiaging products—across whether its skin health or otherwise—and very, very much looking to provide benefits to themselves at an early age.”

L’Oréal last year said growth in the skin-care market had accelerated, driven in part by an aging population.

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Supervisor evaluations and future career professional development requirements

The first supervisor evaluation I received back was after I completed 50 hours of my 114-hour internship with SportsCommunity. 

I was pretty pleased to see that I had received a 4/5 rating. What they were most impressed about was my ability to time manage and communicate. I always communicated the times where I would be available and also communicate the times I would need to devote some time to homework. 

A useful three-step process for professional goal setting begins by identifying the combination of performance, learning, and behavioural goals to best match the unique knowledge, skills, and abilities of the employee to the task requirements of the job (Ford, R, 2017). 

Time management and communication are skills that were strengths for me in the internship feedback. They are the skills I aimed to use during the internship and also endeavour to use it when it comes to professional development, because the habits I am creating now will help in the real world. 

Time management is the key to success. It allows you to take control of your life rather than following the flow of others. As you accomplish more each day, make more sound decisions and feel more in control, people notice. Leaders in your business will come to you when they need to get things done. And that increased exposure helps put you in line for advancement opportunities (AppointmentPlus, 2015). 

Sometimes it was hard to be independent with the initial stages of doing SEO work, but once I figured out the process and got into a rhythm, it was easy to improve the readability scores. Independence is another skill I am really trying to develop. I still feel the need to be given basic instructions and will always do my best from there to do the task, but I need to improve in needing less instructions in order to do a job. But this is a skill that I have improved when it came to my work beyond the SEO readability and I started to analyse SportsCommunity’s livestream videos on how they could be used. Independence is a future career requirement I feel still needs a bit of work from me, however. Things I could do to improve my independence and initiative as suggested from the feedback: 

I need to keep remembering not to wait for someone to tell me what needs to be done. Rather, I need to look around and do things and have a go to the best of my ability and be confident in what I do- if there is a problem, I’m confident it can be worked through. I will also try to get tasks done with less directions and be more confident in myself (Mavi, M, 2018).

A method I used was writing down multiple instructions, which helped. This is something I will continue to do as I dive deeper into the internships and is a useful tool when it comes to a job in the real world as well. 

The next piece of feedback I received was from my 228-hour internship with the Amy Gillett Foundation. I was very pleased to see the score they gave me. They felt I was a wonderful part of their team, always had a ‘can-do’ attitude and did things to the very best of my ability. 

I feel my professionalism has been improved when it comes to video making. This was a skill I wanted to perfect as it is a job I greatly enjoy and see a future for myself in. I was also constantly praised when it came to my ability to make videos, make phone calls, write articles and make lists of people to contact.

I am aware I can improve by taking more time and being slow when it comes to reading complex instructions online about how to make the video process easier- for example, exporting multiple files. 

I think the main thing I want to develop is a bit more independence and autonomy when it comes to a working environment. Even with the Amy Gillett Foundation, I feel that, sometimes, I needed to ask a lot of specific questions before I started tasks.

Technically, I would also love to get better at using Premiere Pro and Photoshop, as they are complex applications and, at times, I struggled. For example, I’d like to get more proficient at writing text on Photoshop and exporting videos faster on Premier. I did get better at adding titles and changing texts and fonts with experience but there is still a lot to learn. 

But from these two internships I feel my professionalism has come a long way. I feel confident in a work environment, aim to be able to work more independently, but am good at following instructions, making videos, developing SEO readability and most of all, time management and communication. 

AppointmentPlus, 2015, ‘why time management is important’, viewed 16 November 2020, https://www.appointmentplus.com/blog/why-time-management-is-important/#:~:text=Good%20time%20management%20allows%20you,another%20aspect%20of%20your%20life.

Ford, R, 2017, ‘Combining performance, learning, and behavioural goals to match job with person: Three steps to enhance employee performance with goal setting’, Business Horizon’s, Vol. 60, Iss. 3, pp345-352, viewed 16 November 2020, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681316301562

Mavi, M, 2018, ‘Independence in the Work Place and How to Get it’, viewed 16 November 2020,  https://www.atriumstaff.com/independence-in-the-work-place-and-how-to-get-it/

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The 5 best NFL destinations for Cam Newton

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Newton may be released or traded this offseason. If that happens, where could he land?

Cam Newton is under contract with the Panthers for 2020. That doesn’t mean he’ll be wearing black and teal this fall.

The 2015 NFL MVP could be a casualty of owner David Tepper’s rebuild. With head coach Ron Rivera (fired), tight end Greg Olsen (released), and linebacker Luke Kuechly (retired) all no longer in Carolina, cutting or trading Newton may be the next step in the franchise’s teardown.

Any move would put Newton at a crossroad. The once-indestructible quarterback missed 14 games due to a foot injury and didn’t look like himself in the two starts he did make. With just one season left on Newton’s five-year, $103 million contract extension, Tepper will have to make a decision about the quarterback’s future, and soon.

Releasing or trading Newton would save the Panthers $19 million in cap room. With limited spending space this spring, casting off Newton is one way for Carolina to be a major player in free agency.

The versatile quarterback might be available this offseason. Here are the five destinations that would be most attractive to him, sorted by fit.

The best place to get a Christian McCaffrey-esque runner/receiver: New Orleans Saints

McCaffrey has emerged as one of the league’s deadliest tailbacks thanks to his ability to carve up defenses on the ground and through the air. The two-time All-Pro became just the third player in NFL history to have at least 1,000 receiving yards and 1,000 rushing yards in the same season.

That breakthrough campaign put McCaffrey in his own stratosphere, but the Saints could provide a reasonable alternative. Alvin Kamara, a fellow member of the 2017 NFL Draft class, has been a similarly dynamic threat in his three seasons in New Orleans.

While Kamara hasn’t quite lived up to his absurd rookie numbers (6.1 yards per carry, 10.2 yards per catch), he’s averaged 53.5 rushing yards per game in his career to McCaffrey’s 60.8. McCaffrey has averaged 8.2 yards after a catch in his three years as a pro; Kamara clocks in at 7.9.

If Newton wants another safety valve in the backfield, he could go to New Orleans. It would take a lot of unexpected moves to put the Saints in a position where they’d need him, however.

Chance it happens: 1/10

First, Drew Brees would need to retire. Then, free agent backup Teddy Bridgewater, 5-0 as a starter in 2019, would have to be lured elsewhere on the open market. That would leave New Orleans with only Taysom Hill in its quarterbacks room, and although Hill may believe he’s the next great starting quarterback ... he probably isn’t.

That would leave room for a veteran quarterback to join the fray in Louisiana should he be released. Head coach Sean Payton’s familiarity with his NFC South foe could put Newton atop the team’s short list.

The best place to prove he can be an effective deep-ball passer: Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Newton is in his 30s. He can’t just shrug off injuries and plow through 16-plus games every year anymore. After eight seasons of above-average production on the ground, his running may be more of a complementary piece of his game rather than a focus.

Newton will have to prove he’s capable of making big throws from the pocket to restore his value as a quarterback. This could be a problem; he’s rarely been a proficient deep-ball passer. Over the past five seasons, he’s completed more than 28 percent of his throws of 20+ yards downfield only once — back in his 2015 MVP campaign.

The Buccaneers could use a quarterback with Jameis Winston’s future currently undecided. Moving to Tampa would pair Newton up with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, arguably the best wide receiver tandem in the game.

Evans has gained at least 1,000 yards in each season of his career. Over the last two years, his average target came more than 15 yards downfield. Godwin had more receiving yards than all but two other players in 2019 and has recorded just four drops in his three seasons. If Newton wants two players who can help him shine as a pocket passer, Tampa’s the place to go.

Chance it happens: 2/10

Bruce Arians likes reclamation projects, whether it’s Winston or Carson Palmer before him. Newton has enough left in the tank, if fully healthy, to make Arians look like a genius. While Philip Rivers is the obvious local option, Newton could provide the biggest upside for the Buccaneers’ offense.

Like the Saints, this possibility is only happening if Newton is released — the Panthers would not trade their longtime quarterback to another NFC South team.

The best place for his legacy: Carolina Panthers

Newton is the winningest quarterback in Carolina history. He’s the franchise’s leading passer and the only Panther to win an NFL MVP award. The team’s only back-to-back playoff appearances have come under its dual-threat QB.

Carolina still needs a quarterback, too. Newton’s absence last season led to diminishing returns from Kyle Allen and an unimpressive performance from 2019 draft pick Will Grier. If Newton can return to full health and put together even a career-average season, he would be a better use of $22 million than most of the options the club could sign in free agency.

The Panthers can also give Newton some help. They have two building blocks in McCaffrey and budding wideout D.J. Moore, who had 1,175 receiving yards in his second year in 2019.

Last year’s 5-11 season also hands the Panthers some solid draft capital that could be used on skill players. Adding an impact tight end to replace the since-released Greg Olsen and some extra receivers to stretch the field alongside Moore could be all it takes to bring the Panthers (and Newton) back to prominence.

Chance it happens: 5/10

Tepper seems intent on a regime shift, though he’s willing to consider a totally recovered Newton. Rehabbing Newton’s image could appeal to him from a business standpoint. Newton is a bit expensive, but restoring him to greatness would be a major win for the fledgling owner.

It might make sense to bring Newton back for 2020 even if the team has no interest in re-signing him for 2021. Newton could play an important role as a leader and mentor before handing the reins over to a young, cheaper option before he hits free agency next offseason. Either way, this seems like the most likely fit for Newton’s 10th season.

The best place to make a young QB look bad: Chicago Bears

Bears general manager Ryan Pace says Mitchell Trubisky is the team’s starting quarterback for 2020. Given Trubisky’s regression last fall, it’s tough to take that statement at face value.

Newton could be in play, either via trade or after a possible release. Adding a veteran more explosive than career backup Chase Daniel could spur some competitive development from the former No. 2 overall pick. More importantly, it would give a ready-built playoff team a useful second option in case Trubisky, for lack of a better word, sucks again in 2020.

Newton would take over an offense with more talent than its 2019 season indicates. Allen Robinson, Trey Burton, and Taylor Gabriel were all brought to town to help Trubisky, and they could thrive alongside a quarterback like Newton. David Montgomery showed flashes of being a true RB1 as a rookie. Tarik Cohen is no McCaffrey, but he’s still a weapon out of the backfield who adds an extra dimension to the passing game.

Newton would also have a playoff defense — with Khalil Mack, Kyle Fuller, Eddie Jackson, and Roquan Smith — to bolster him for any low-scoring affairs.

Chance it happens: 1/10

In one year, the Bears fell from NFC North champs to 8-8. Trubisky was the biggest single factor in that backslide. Pace knows his championship window is closing, and limited cap space means it would be difficult to add a higher-profile QB to push or replace Trubisky this offseason. Sniping Newton would take some work and eat into that space, but it could be his best option to relive the highs of 2018.

The best place to piss off the rest of the NFL: New England Patriots

If Tom Brady’s threats of free agency pan out, New England could be in the market for a starting quarterback. Brady’s departure would leave the Patriots with Jarrett Stidham and Cody Kessler in their QB room. A healthy Newton would allow Bill Belichick to swap out his classic pocket passer for a young, more mobile model.

Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels has done an admirable job of devising a gameplan that allowed an aging Brady to thrive into his 40s. Newton would provide a different kind of challenge. He’s a less accurate, more turnover-prone quarterback than the one he’d be replacing. He also adds an extra dimension on the ground in ways his stiff-legged predecessor never could.

Chance it happens: 1/10

Until he puts pen to paper and signs with another team, it’s difficult to envision Brady in anything other than New England’s red, white, and blue. If he does leave, Newton could be the kind of veteran who revives his career at Gillette Stadium — but his struggles as a pocket passer and the Patriots’ lack of receiving help could make this a rough fit for both parties.