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15 January 2019updated 02 Sep 2021 9:34am

The Gillette ad campaign shows Piers Morgan is wrong – men are getting better

The advert plays on Gillette’s legendary slogan “The Best a Man Can Get”, instead asking “Is this the best a man can get?”

By James millar

So it looks like I’m going to have to shave for the first time in a decade.

Not because I’ve been inspired by the new Gillette advert urging men to be the best they can be. But because of all the men’s rights activists, misogynists and sillies like Piers Morgan threatening to boycott Gillette. Anyone sporting facial fuzz in future may immediately mark themselves out as a member of that gang, which seems remarkably intent on saying that men shouldn’t be the best they can be.

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