Transsexual Shaving Cream: BEFORE

Oh, the horror! Oh, the shock! Oh, the humiliation!

Hoping to enhance my status as a manly man, I recently purchased a travel-sized can of Gillette shaving gel. Being a discriminating consumer, I was drawn to the product by its burly packaging and subtle-yet-masculine scent.

So you can imagine the dismay and distress I experienced when, after a few weeks of use, the label on the can began to peel. After the label fell off completely, the true nature of my manly can of shaving cream was revealed.

Oh, the shame! Oh, the sexual confusion! My sense of identity is in tatters.

UPDATE, 02 AUGUST: Thanks to the clever sleuths at Gelf Magazine, the transsexual shaving cream mystery has been officially explained. However, Gillette has yet to offer a formal apology or a generous settlement.

As Telstar Logistics lawyers evaluate our legal options, I'm pleased to report that I am again feeling manly. Also, my legs are more silky smooth than ever before.

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TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

I am completely horrified with this. How can greedy recycling procedures put people in such risk of identity collapse?

Gillette should have never gotten into such thoughtless practices...

Hope you are feeling better, Todd. And don´t worry that nobody will know about this bitter episode.

Except for the hundreds reading this, that is...
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Telstar Logistics says:

Thank you. Thank you so much. It's in times of crisis like this when one really learns to appreciate dear friends and family.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

kaosmonkey [deleted] says:

Ha HA!

You big Girl!!
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

The Rocketeer says:

Get ready to be inundated with hits... you've been "BoingBoinged"...
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

dgdgdsgds says:

Economically speaking....you completely won out on this deal.

As women's products are typically twice as expensive as men's.

(Then again, usually it's half the size...same price...so you maybe have ended up being additionally hucklebucked by getting a "smaller" version of a men's product.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Steeljack says:

"I know everything there is to know
About the shaving game..."
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Slipp [deleted] says:

So, here's the key question - did it leave your legs silky smooth or not?
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Telstar Logistics says:

Why, yes! As a matter of fact they are feeling a bit more silky. And oddly, I've also been overcome with cravings to watch Oprah.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

benjiman says:

THIS IS CRUSHING
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Speculative Engineering says:

Please be advised that your product's rating has been revoked by the Emollient Shaving Ratings Board for Potential Obscured References to Naughtiness. Do not apply this product to any part of your body until the Board can determine which, if any, such applications are appropriate at the new rating level.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

kamylyon says:

Actually there is a difference, other than the color, between men and women's razors.

Most women's razors have aloe in that silly moisturing strip they put on them, and most men's have vitamin E.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

krets says:

yeah! keep it real.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

STDOUBT says:

Manly men use SOAP to shave.

Plus, Gillette tests on animals.
You deserve what you get buying that chemo-crap. Ya freakin' girl.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

surferseth says:

Yep, I sure do think so: typical of a company to put a "new" tag on it, when it's the same ol' thang!
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Mark Hurst says:

Awesome - on thisisbroken.com now.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

profai says:

You guys all have shaving cream on your face! You fell for Gillette's version of sophisticated viral marketing via blog buzz.

I will pick up a new can along with my hot coffee mod of Grand Theft Auto before the buzz bounces from BoingBoing to the NYTimes...
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

rcleetus says:

Ha ha! So, how about them razors? Are they peelable to, and do they reveal a pink sleeve beneath the Mach M3 sleeve?!
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Telstar Logistics says:

It's true, profai! You're the only one who figured it out! I receive signals in my brain from Gillette via RFID! Or was that via Wi-Fi? I only remember what they want me to remember.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

digitalpretzel says:

I once had a can of travel brute deoderant, and when the label peeled back it revealed brute hair spray. So it's not unusual. and it gave my pit-hair an all day hold, yet leaving it smooth and manageable.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Paula Wirth says:

What is especially funny, is that you bought "sensitive skin" for men, and got "moisturizing" for women - which does it actually do?
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Telstar Logistics says:

Why can't I be both sensitive *and* properly moisturized? Is that so wrong?
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Owen says:

Gillette - "The best a she-male can get...."
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

flargh says:

I use the Gillette shave gel, and I can tell you from experience that the shape of the can and the dispensing end are both shaped very differently than this. I don't doubt you've been duped, but for what reason is beyond my ken.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

Digitalpretzel, that is a very positive attitude towards life. Keept it like that!

Just a question... could you put down back your arm after using the mischievous deodorant/spray? ;)
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Bunnyspatial says:

In my experience, the products made for females work better anyway. I use Secret deoderant, which keeps me smelling fresh long after my expiration date. :)
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Jobalt says:

Gee, I always test my shaving creme on cats....
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

tommyg says:

I call bullshit on this one.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

paganini says:

C'mon you big sissy! Don't lie to us like that. :)

I've used the Gillette Shaving Gel countless times, but not for its burly packaging or subtly masculine scent. I, manly, just closed my eyes and picked up the first product my hands reached. Period.

Furthermore, the Gillette Shaving Gel can has a completely different trigger. The "outer metal skin" was obviously peeled off a real can and wrapped around the girly can. :)

These days, I don't use shaving gel anymore. Real men don't use shaving gel. Do your identity a favor and shave like a man! No razors, just use and axe! No shaving cream or shaving gel either! And if your wife complains, just turn off the light to make things more interesting.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Neurotic Monkey says:

Todd,

If it makes you feel any better, my ex-husband used to use my shaving gel instead of his own... deliberately. He thinks it makes his skin feel better but I just think he was too cheap to buy his own.

I've always suspected that the only difference between the men's version and the women's version is the scent. Now my suspicion has been proven!

Glad I switched over to tweezing.

neuroticmonkey
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

I really like this thread... it´s becoming "Shaving confessions"
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

whooz_queen says:

Why not thwack some Nair on your face instead? Mmmmm, feeel the burn. Yi yi yi yi yi!
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Adam Chernow says:

LOL!!!

-A
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Telstar Logistics says:

paganini...apparently, not every can of hee-man Gillette gel suffers from the same gender confusion as the one I bought. For example, the guy in the office next to mine has a can of the men's version, and the manly graphics on his can are screened directly onto the aluminum.

My can, however, had some sort of shrink-wrap plastic wrapper label thingy on the outside, with the women's product graphics screened onto the can beneath. The "after" picture makes that pretty clear.

I saved both the can and the label/wrapper, and I am prepared to testify under oath to the grand jury of your choice as to the veracity of the tale told here (with the exception of the part about trying to enhance my manly-man status). Have your special prosecutor call my special prosecutor.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

carolellison says:

Absolutely amazingly beautiful.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Pete Prodoehl says:

I assume you've already contacted a lawyer. ;)
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

cuibel says:

Maybe someone taught you shaving in school.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Telstar Logistics says:

THE HIS/HERS RIDDLE HAS BEEN EXPLAINED! The investigative sleuths at Gelf Magazine contacted Gillette to seek an explanation for this gender-bender mystery. You can read the details for yourself... and sleep better at night as a manly man thereafter.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ says:

Todd, I am happy that Gillette´s voice has finally been heard.

Sleep and shave in peace. =)
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

UK College of Law [deleted] says:

I sleep better already, switched back to Old Spice shave cream after many years of unavailability in my area. Different bottle now (one that has no pealable label,) stuff inside seems the same.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Kel Patolog says:

My god. Another conspiracy by the gay mafia?
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

Mute* says:

Hilarious!!
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

eRuff says:

EVERY GUY WHO PRETENDS TO BE OVERLY MASCULINE, IS A BIG GIRL INSIDE.
Posted 53 months ago. ( permalink )

superdude9098 says:

dude you're a vagina grow a pair of testicles and you won't have the not manly problem
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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