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New Toyota Ad Features Androgynous Male Model | Toyota is trying to challenge cultural norms with its Auris (Corolla), but not just in the automobile industry. In a creative swipe at the gender binary, the car company cast Ukrainian-born model Stav Strashko in its new advertisement, utilizing his androgynous looks to create a typically sexist expectation, only to reveal something quite different. The tagline for the ad is, “not in trend, not casual, not for everyone.” Watch it:
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