What a cut advert! We need more of this! I am honestly pleased with this, and they look great together. The non-bearded one is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hot. I'll do his laundry.
First of all, I can judge him for his ugly beard. It is... ugly. Someone else might like it, and that's so wonderful for them.
The actor on the left is obviously of a different ethnic background than the man on the right, and he was chosen deliberately to contrast with the genericly handsome pale white man. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. It's not ignorant, it's obvious. There is no racism to be found.
Finally, "going to do ethnic" is a very real thing in the entertainment and modeling industry. Yes, I am very blatant with my description because I'm simply calling it out for what it is. They wanted a more "ethnic" looking contrast to the generic white Canadian stereotype. You can rephrase it any way you prefer to sound more politically correct.
I could pretend to like the commercial in all of its goofy, poor attempt at cuteness glory, but I can't when the script is so bad and the castings are mocking gay stereotypes. It's so try hard that it just becomes tacky.
All of this pseudo-intellectual ranting over a Tide commercial? So much negativity and wasted energy towards something that is actually trying to promote something positive. I'll never understand this.
What a calculated move on tide's part; the casting choices were obviously meticulously cooked up in a boardroom and screened through several focus groups. You can just tell that these companies feel like they're making a grand move on the chess board when they shoot these endearingly "offbeat" gay/interracial commercials. They obviously have no genuine motives, beyond pushing their brand by scoring cool points with the tumblr/san francisco/granola crowd. Shame on you gays for falling for it.
Are you ****ing kidding with the comments in here? I'm glad other members have already gathered and bodied some of these members cuz The shallow reactions for a ****ing tide commercial
On topic... This commercial is progressive And I would quicker date the bearded one than the other... I feel bad everyone is putting him down