Rolling Maleness and Masculinity Discussion Thread

I'll have you all know I bought store brand Mach 3 razors today in protest

(of Gillette's obscene prices).

I stopped shaving again

(out of sheer laziness).

I got a lot of body parts lasered because of laziness and boredom and maybe six months will go by and I will randomly look down and see like, 4 super long hairs on a shin.

boys wrestling on the grass should not necessarily be what we mean by toxic masculinity

It looked more like helicopter parenting.

I thought it was supposed to be bullying.

Helicopter bullying.

bullying is a slur

m'lady

lol good spot

bullycoptering

Mach 3 blades are way overpriced, at least we can all agree on that.

I thought everyone had moved on to the fusion?

The fusion (5 blade) was released when I started shaving and I’ve never known anything else. Still use it to clean up the neck even though I have a scruffy beard now.

I'm a Dorco man, myself.

The fusion is less toxically masculine because it’s like cobalt blue and orange and is marketed as being safer.

shaving blades are a racket and what they do should be illegal. I pay $40 for a 12-pack "refill" and feel like the dumbest man on Earth every time I do. I don't give a shit how "woke" they are.

I tried switching from Dorco down to some double-edge safety razor business, under the promise that you can buy like 100 blades for ten bucks or whatever. Sliced the shit out of myself for a couple weeks and gave up.

The Fusion is even more overpriced iirc?

Seriously though, Dorco is like $40 for a 24 pack and imo competes well against the stuff you can buy in stores.

lidl shark razor is fine

clean it with an old toothbrush

or yknow whoop for adverts

i bought a peanut once and it has worked to keep my beard kempt for over a decade if u don't require a clean shaven face i can highly recommend

Yeah, the store brand ones I bought today were $9 (CAD) for a 5-pack as opposed to the $22 they were charging for the Gillettes. Hoping I don't shred my face. 2xp

the fusion is more expensive but it's what i've always used.

https://mk0primandprepabb7sr.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Both-Together-in-hand.jpg

well yknow are u willing to change or not

in the side by side it's definitely more playful, more glam. the mac 3 has a rubber grip handle with tire treads. this actually seems more functional but it is also repressed.

dmac 3 also fits that latter description

Any razor you like, as long as it isn’t str8

good morrow, b'ladies

I've been happy with Dorco. I did Dollar Shave Club until I realized they were just reselling Dorcos. plus go on Slickdeals there are always some Dorco coupon codes

What is dorco? I get my razors at cvs

Still the greatest Onion op-ed

https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036

Hoping I don't shred my face.

So far, so good.

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― Mordy

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my grammar is okay most of the time but my mechanics are pretty weak

this is a thread about razors, i like ms. tree as much as anybody but to hell with substance

I have to object about being called ‘ms. tree.’ I’m woke enough, but come on

https://www.catspawdynamics.com/ms-tree/

The Ms. Tree Method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQjuc61EGU

the only feminist Gillette I'm interested in

since the question came up this is from a forbes article (that a pro-commercial slate article linked to):

As Gillette has come under increasing competition from low priced competitors such as Dollar Shave Club and Harry's, along with a resurgent Schick who is offering refill cartridges that fit Gillette razors, its market share has dropped from 70% to 50% over the past decade. Gillette has been forced to drop the price of its razors by about 15% over the past few years and is on the verge of losing master brand status.

tried to move my rider and the mother-effin' battery died. I can just jump that from a car battery right?

Schick who is offering refill cartridges that fit Gillette razors

This is v.v. smart but can also backfire if Gillette does the same.

shaving's a pretty great scam, especially in beardo times where you can soak consumers with a beard trimmer that doesn't clean up the neck well necessitating a traditional razor to clean up the edges

on the bright side it means I buy actual razor blades like, once a year or something because neck cleanup takes a while to kill a blade

yeah my philips beard trimmer is shit at cleaning up the neck actually, that's a fair point.

For a while I was on the chromed out safety razor kick--it was a better shave but I nicked myself more.

I started doing my neck with a safety razor a few years ago and haven’t looked back. Hot towel for neck, shaving soap, cheap-ass badger hair brush, Feather razors, and witch hazel for aftershave. I knick myself, mainly when I’ve used the razor one too many times, but I did the same with the Mach 3, too.

“Traditional” masculinity is DEAD. The secret to male sexual stamina is veggies. 😉 pic.twitter.com/51DUsqzyO3

— PETA (@peta) January 16, 2019

get ready for lots more of this

I shave in the shower without cream and a 4 bladed razor. I swap out cartridges every 3 or 4 months.

Since we are all outing our shaving routines: Phillips OneBlade every other day or so and for beard and moustache trimming, Gillette Fusion5 once a week or when I want to look extra classy. I use a shaving gel called Shave With Benefits (the company's owned by a friend of my father's) that is very nice smelling and feeling in itself and claims to extend razor blade life -- and in my experience, it actually does. Pitralon as aftershave, but only the version made for the Swiss market because it's a completely different and better product and finally now readily available outside of Switzerland. (German heads understand.)