In 2015, Ad Council posted a video where they brilliantly use an X-ray screen to show couples as skeletons in love, but it’s when they reveal the true identities of the people that they really pull at the old heartstrings.
Apparently love really is blind, and it only takes a couple of skeletons to prove it.
Watch the video below:
Each reveal was special. Some showed same-sex couples, others showed elderly couples, others showed children of different races, genders, and abilities embracing.
The central message was that love knows no race, color, orientation, ability, or other status when stripped down to the bare bones. It was a great reminder then when marriage equality saw a historic win when same-sex marriage was made legal in the United States, and it’s an even greater reminder today as we face even more division manifested in worries about poverty, political division, climate change, reproductive rights, and much more.
When it gets a little too easy to hate someone who doesn’t think, vote, or look like you, remember what’s beneath the skin and how similar we all really are.
This article originally appeared ten years ago.
