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.