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That recent Gilette ad is fascinating and reveals what feels like culture's collective confusion over what gender is supposed to be. The ad starts by showing a sequence of 'bad' masculine actions - boys fighting, guys catcalling women, or shaming each other for crying. (Cont-)

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"culture's collective confusion over [...] gender"? Nah. I think this is just Gillette's super clumsy attempt at, in the words of Bret Weinstein, "bidding on woke dollars." It's a clumsy after school special of a commercial/marketing campaign.

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I really disagree. I disagree so hard I think I'm gonna make a separate tweet thread about it.

7:50 PM · Jan 15, 2019

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Okay. I look forward to reading that thread; curious why you think this ad isn't just a clumsy attempt to make money off socially conscientious people who aren't quite woke enough to realize that's *all* it is.

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You really disagree just because