Axe Body Spray wants everyone to know that it will not be participating in the “Straight Pride” parade happening in Boston later this summer.
It all started after a tweet listing all the “Floats for the Straight Pride Parade…” went viral and included the popular deodorant spray as #1 on the list.
Tweeted Axe: “we’ll be at the parade that matters and this one isn’t it”
we’ll be at the parade that matters and this one isn’t it
— AXE (@AXE) June 5, 2019
When an Axe hater named Jill Lennon made a jab at the brand, it clapped back: “Gay rights are human rights but go off jill”
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Gay rights are human rights but go off jill
— AXE (@AXE) June 5, 2019
And when someone named Pat praised the social media intern running Axe’s Twitter account, it was quick to set the record straight by saying: “interns don’t run the social media of major companies pat but thank you”
interns don't run the social media of major companies pat but thank you
— AXE (@AXE) June 5, 2019
We’re glad that’s settled.
Thanks, Axe. See you at the real Pride!
Related: Twitter has a lot to say about this “Straight Pride” parade happening in Boston
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IWantAFullBeard
I don’t use Axe but I will be now.
Inspector 57
Yup. Me, too!
Cheshire Kat
Kudos to Axe for standing up to the ignorance.
But the original poster forgot about The Chick-fil-a Cows float. ?
dwes09
“- Giant AXE body spray
– Bag of Doritos
– Big Mountain Dew
– Tomi Lahren riding a Swastika
– Jacob Wohl waving on a Twinkie
– Charlie Kirk in a diaper
– The curly hair gun girl in a beige leotard riding an AR-15
– Giant Parent’s basement”
This is hilarious. If these were to be the floats, I’d go for sure.
AXE is of course the iconic heterosexual post teenage body spray (as Canoe Cologne was when I was in my closeted teens), but i know a few gay guys who love it too.
Brian
The initial jokester mentioned Axe because of the brand’s deliberate self-styling. For years, their commercials were such a turn off for me. The joke works well.
Side note: Why would Axe be at the gay pride parades, as they claim? What have they ever done to support LGBT people?
Pride should be a time to support queer people, queer organizations, and queer-owned businesses. Instead, this brand and many others think that it’s a time for queer people to give money to straight people. That’s misguided. To be clear, I’m not “offended,” I’m not “outraged”… I just think this type of controversy and attention is silly and stupid. Unfortunately, it happens every year.
Terrycloth
Axe is for boys between 14 & 22 who are slim hairless and have abs…most boys who use it usually smell like they’ve used the whole thing at once.