Balancing Act: Lovely new Gillette commercial shows dad teaching his transgender son to shave. Yet again, the company gets it right.
by Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune
May 31, 2019
3 minutes
Gillette is a 118-year-old company acting like it wants to be around for another 100 or so.
On the heels of its commercial taking aim at toxic masculinity, the razor and body care company released a new commercial featuring a father guiding his transgender son through his first shave.
"South, south, north, north, east, west, never in a hurry," Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, a Toronto-based transgender activist, recites, practicing the strokes of a
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