Holy crap I just saw an Olympic commercial for Head and Shoulders

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featuring a Pride flag. Gus Kenworthy, who is an extreme skier who is likely to be on the Olympic team this year, speaks about representing his country, his community, and his pride. When he says community the is draped in a Pride flag. I am just amazed to see this.

[jberryhill]

1. Amazed to see this?

A commercial? A gay athlete? A gay athlete IN a commercial? That regular use of Head and Shoulders, now with scalpreposterin, has been proven to noticeably reduce flakes for up to 12 hours?

They paid a lot of money for an Olympic sponsorship and collateral advertising to elicit your reaction, so be specific.

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2. First this will be the first winter olympics with openly gay male athletes

they date back to 1924. Second, to see an ad featuring a gay athlete with pride imagery frankly blows my mind. Remember there still hasn't been an openly gay athlete in professional football (outside of Sam who was drafted but didn't play a down), in professional baseball (outside of a few minor league players), only one in basketball, and none in hockey. In short this is historic.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/w_Z7/head-and-shoulders-old-spice-pride-featuring-gus-kenworthy

[jberryhill]

5. Buy the shampoo

That was the point.

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Let me guess: The guy with dandruff won because he could freshly power the slope as he skied.

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4. No skiing in the ad

which is kind of strange.