i’m cruising along, reading my issue of real simple, about to flip the page, when i see this ad. i pause because the photo is adorable and feels really natural. then i’m confused what the image has to do with tylenol, so i stop to read the ad text. then i flip the page.
first thing: i rarely ever stop to read an ad. i typically ignore them. but this photo caught my eye and i stopped. so, success on that front tylenol!
second thing: it wasn’t until after i’d already turned the page that it occurred to me that the ad featured a same sex couple.
i turned back to the ad and felt a sort of weird happiness. thing is, i honestly did not think that this level of national ad representation of same sex couples would occur during my lifetime. yet here it is.
but more importantly, this type of representation is becoming so much more commonplace that i’m no longer hyper-aware that it’s occurring.
it’s just people, doing their thing, in an ad.
the battles are far from over. but this one small thing made me happy.
representation matters.
This is an interesting take from a fellow blogger.. Tylenol is using an interesting image of love to sell it’s product. But if you really look close you’ll notice something that years ago would have been noticed much faster.. Progress indeed. People doing their thing.
