To Hell With Gillette

There’s a lot we have to put up with in life and a lot that we don’t. One of the things we don’t have to put up with are the hyper-liberal political lectures that actors, singers, and NFL players try to inflict on us. It’s easy to change the channel — or read a book — rather than watch these idiots perform. They have been joined by the people who inject the same sort of liberal politics into television ads for companies that want to preach “progressive” messages instead of telling us why their product is better than the other guy’s. Gillette made most of the products with which our fathers taught us how to shave. I remember my first razor, a crude Gillette that held their trademarked “Blue Blades” in a loose assemblage of parts. It made nicks and cuts an almost-daily part of shaving. Special care had to be taken when shaving before a date. Until this month, Gillette was entirely satisfied with its old slogan, “the best a man can get,” which was always a double entendre. The Gillette ads used the slogan in TV commercials and print ads in which a clean-shaved man was having his face stroked by a dynamite blonde or a sexy brunette. The message was perfectly clear: use the razor, get the babe. But the geniuses who run Gillette decided to change the slogan to one that’s more politically correct. It’s now advertised as “the best a man can be,” in a commercial that’s a steaming pile of anti-male liberal messages about bullying, the “#MeToo” movement, sexual harassment, and men’s collective duty to ensure that the next generation of boys become more like women. Gillette doesn’t want men to stop shaving. They want us to shave our legs as well as our faces. We don’t have to put up with this so I’m saying to hell with Gillette. It’s really no surprise that Gillette would be changing its slogan to conform to political correctness because it’s now part of Procter & Gamble, which is hell-bent on appealing to millennials, GenX, and Gen Y and whoever else is old enough to buy s...