OPINION (Todd Starnes) – It wasn’t too long ago that Gillette produced a television commercial denouncing men. Now, they apparently want to corner the transgender shaving market. Gillette posted a new video telling the story of a teenage girl who identifies as a male learning to shave. The Boston Globe reports the ad features Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, a young Canadian. It’s part of the company’s new #MyBestSelf campaign. “Growing up I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I want to become and I’m still trying to figure out what kind that I want to become,” Brown said.
“It’s not just myself transitioning. It’s everyone around me transitioning.” The ad’s tagline is “Whenever, wherever, however, it happens — your first shave is special.” In January P&G released a two-minute commercial that accused men of being incubators of sexual harassment and bullying and toxic masculinity. “This is an important conversation happening, and as a company that encourages men to be their best, we feel compelled to both address it and take action of our own,” P&G’s Pankaj Bhalla told the Wall Street Journal. READ MORE
