Harry’s Shave Company just gave a subtle shout-out to the LGBTQ community by featuring a transgender man in one of their company ads.
The new commercial, titled “Shave, or Don’t” features a variety of men in a variety of situations contemplating when and when not to shave, and all the occasions that demand the debate. A narrator describes the different situations as the camera cuts to different scenes.
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The key moment comes as the narrator says “you can shave to feel like you.” As he does, a transgender man, complete with scars from top surgery, steps into frame and inspects his beard.
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The inclusion of a transgender man among other, cisgender men marks the continuing growth in acceptance and understanding of the transgender community. In recent years, out-transgender people have risen in notoriety, landing acting roles on TV shows like Pose, becoming star athletes and even retaining political office.
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cynicalsteve
This was awesome.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Sucks that along with having to deal with noxious abhorrent bigots trans guys have to now deal with shaving every day.. .
AgainNagain
And then you have real men, like most East Asian guys, who can’t even grow any facial hair on their face, let alone a beard.
Brian
I would imagine that most of them are thrilled that they have to do it. But every day? I do it about twice a week. I should do it about every other day but it’s so much easier to just be a little scruffy.
Creamsicle
I’ve been a Harry’s customer for about a year now. The blades are stupid cheap compared to drug store prices, and I have noticed a significant improvement in my shave.
Their face wash smells nice, and is concentrated, so a tube lasts a crazy long time.
Kangol
Great commercial!
DCguy
And then you have Dollar Shave Club that advertises on FOX.
BornTo
Figures you watch the alt right Nazi network like the racist you are.
truthseeker
Oh look, DCguy has to bring up FOX in some irrelevant confusing manner.
What even is your point?
Are you saying that everything that airs on FOX is alt right nazism and somehow bad? I guess Empire, The Simpsons, Gotham, Bob’s Burgers, MasterChef, and formerly American Idol and Glee (all FOX shows) have some explaining to do in the mind of DCguy
russdog
BornTo: Are you being facetious or just trolling? FOX news is separate from the entertainment division. Paying any attention at all to the shows they broadcast (maybe with the exception of Last Man Standing) would tell you there’s no right-wing agenda in their programming.
DCguy
My My My,
The two anti-LGBT right wing trolls certainly become enraged when I point out that a competitor to the pro-LGBT razor company advertises on FOX News.
Almost as if your job was to shield bigots or something like that.
Aires the Ram
1st, what in the hell does Dollar Shave Club have to do with a Harry’s ad? Answer: Nothing
2nd, all kinds of products and services that we buy and consume are advertised on the Fox News Channel. Anybody out there drive a Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Ram, Honda, Subaru, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, VW, Audi, Mercedes? Any of you go to any number of fast-food chains? The list is very long, and anybody who makes a point about ANY product that is advertised on Fox News, along with practically every other media outlet, Is just plain wacked-out. Anybody who thinks Fox News is a Nazi propaganda network, has never watched it, they’re just getting their cues from CNN and their Gay, Inc. “friends”.
DCguy
@Aires the Ram
1. Because it is their number 1 competitor.
2. Well Well Well, you certainly seem to have a list of products that support the bigotry and anti-LGBT hate FOX Spews out. So thanks for reminding us again that you are always here to defend bigotry.
Aires the Ram
@DCguy, No genius, my POINT is that advertisements for nearly everything that is marketed nationwide, are shown on all kinds of networks, no matter the content or leanings of said network. You will see the same ads on CNN & MSNBC as you will see on Fox News and the Discovery Channel, et. al.
….Remember all the angst from gays regarding Chick-fil-a? You still see their ads on many channels, and you haven’t boycotted those channels, have you? Didn’t think so. This was just another opportunity for you to call everyone you disagree with politically, a Nazi, a bigot, a homophobe and God knows what else depending on which way the wind is blowing when you post.