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The outrageously politically incorrect adverts from the time equality forgot
Daily Mail ^ | 11/28/07

Posted on 11/28/2007 12:37:27 PM PST by LibWhacker

The outrageously politically incorrect adverts from the time equality forgot

Last updated at 14:47pm on 28th November 2007

Comments Comments (27) In a politically correct age, they seem like outrageous anachronisms.

And there is no doubt these adverts - many taken from the first half of the last century - reveal just how much women used to be caricatured as downtrodden housewives or hair-brained office girls.

Now, a new book - You Mean A Woman Can Open It?: The Woman's Place In The Classic Age Of Advertising - brings together images which would surely cause a howl of protest if they were released today.

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male chef

1961: When you can't wait for your dinner, give her a Kenwood Chef food mixer and let her have some fun preparing your favourite dish

driver woman

1970: Your wife won't be able to stall the car or grind the gears - and there's even one pedal fewer to confuse her with the Mini Automatic

coffee

1952: Is your coffee pressure packed for extra freshness? If hubby can tell you're not making Chase & Sanborn coffee for him, well, you've been warned...

decisive men

1946: Women are seen as indecisive, trying to squeeze into something too small, worried someone else is wearing the same dress and then taking it back to the shop. Men need only one look at the Pacific label to know it suits you, sir

tomato sauce

1953: You don't need a knife, a bottle opener or even your husband to unscrew the cap of this bottle - just a little twist of the Alcoa HyTop Closure, made of pure aluminium, and that ketchup is ready to pour

Vitamins

1930s: You do all the houshold chores - and still look fresher every day, darling. What's your secret? A bowl of Kellogg's PEP vitamin cereal for breakfast, naturally

Palmolive

1921: If you can answer YES to the question, you are obviously using pure mild Palmolive soap that will leave your skin radiant

stamp printer

1953: Husband furious because you've missed the post? The Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter prints the stamp and seals the envelope all in one go.


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KEYWORDS: adverts; incorrect; outrageously; politically
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To: dfwgator

Watch Joe Namath get creamed! Remember that one?


61 posted on 11/28/2007 1:58:52 PM PST by wjcsux (Islam: The religion of choice for those who are too stupid for Scientology)
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To: LibWhacker

Somewhere along the way, hot women like those in these ads realized they have all the power in relationships with men.


62 posted on 11/28/2007 2:05:15 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative

They already knew it back then, that’s why the hot women are in the ads while the copy is generally written for men.


63 posted on 11/28/2007 2:07:41 PM PST by discostu (a mountain is something you don't want to %^&* with)
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To: LibWhacker

now the media works overtime to make:

husbands look clumsy, stupid or homosexual effete

women look so earnest and capable

old blacks are wise....judges usually...especially black women.

black guy makes white guy look the fool....one of the biggies

white girl is always with black guy.....almost never a white guy with black girl

they always find a way to squeeze in some Oriental slash Latino looking person just to meet quota.....someone from Mars would think the US is minority white judging from Madison Ave and Movies

Muslims are either wise and solemn or maniacs...lol...they got it part right

Jews (American) are usually funny and wise .....and religious.....Israelis are made to look more like cold and icey with Brit accents often....not true at all

which brings up.....Brit accents....the new Nazi accent

abortion nearly always good....at worst just sad.

Homosexuals are treated as Deity.

American Indians.....noble and wonderful.

White Christian Southern Males.....the bottom next to White South Africans

Christianity....very bad unless kumbaya variety.

Western culture.....root of all evil.
anything southern unless black southern....forget it...

I could do this till tomorrow morning....we live in an absurd world where the majority group that mostly founded this nation is now an acceptable target of derision from anyone and the minority groups are given full cover from which to snipe and be hypocrites.

All media with few exceptions are completely surrendered to this and it is orchestrated by folks from various minorities who have an objective....the minimization of western culture in general and the worst part is that whites mostly support their own self destruction because they fear being labeled a bigot.

I never thought I would see this and with 5 children I deal with some aspect of this campaign day in/day out.

Even here.


64 posted on 11/28/2007 2:15:23 PM PST by wardaddy (I'm praying for Fred......our only decent hope......)
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To: Impugn

It’s women who are communicating to men that they won’t give men the time of day if they don’t wear stylish suits from that guy’s store. That’s female empowerment.


65 posted on 11/28/2007 2:17:21 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: LibWhacker

Too bad they were dug up again. Let’s bury them for good.


66 posted on 11/28/2007 2:20:17 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: najida; LibWhacker

“Oh goody!
More woman bashing from conservative males!

Thank you....I’m gonna bookmark this.”


At least my post 43 reflects good taste, so I escape your charge.


67 posted on 11/28/2007 2:20:38 PM PST by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
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To: Impugn

“Every kiss begins with Kay - I.O.W. you will only get some if you give her a shiny bauble.”

Or Ron White’s version of the DeBeer’s ad: “Diamonds... that’ll shut ‘er up!”


68 posted on 11/28/2007 2:24:51 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: 50sDad
"It’s like the difference between the charm of the old “cheesecake” calender pin-ups and today’s Internet’s porn women. I miss the elegant charm we had forty years ago." ============================================================ Image and video hosting by TinyPic
69 posted on 11/28/2007 2:25:25 PM PST by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
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To: LibWhacker

Is the woman in the 2nd ad (the car driving one) Goldie Hawn? Sure looks like her.


70 posted on 11/28/2007 2:32:21 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: VOA
The classic would be "Coffee, Tea, or Me?"

Was that a real ad, or did Playboy make it up?

71 posted on 11/28/2007 2:38:33 PM PST by Williams
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To: Williams

Coffee Tea or Me was a paperback book about stewardesses and their relationships. It was supposedly written by a ‘stew’ as they were called back then. It is tame by today’s standards but was considered quite racy when my mother caught me reading it.


72 posted on 11/28/2007 2:43:39 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: marsh2
What about John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in the classic The Quiet Man. One lady gives him a stick to beat his wife, then he drags her around pretty good.

I thought that movie was "Mrs. McClintock."

73 posted on 11/28/2007 2:45:41 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Williams; sportutegrl

I do remember the “Coffee, Tea or Me” phrase...I don’t know if it was
just the title of the book (amazon link to reissue below), or if it
was also used in an advertizing campaign.

Of course, the ads like “I’m Kirstin. Fly Me.” are so memorable
that I don’t know which airline used that line!

Additionally, I saw some original adverts and archival footage on
Southwest Airlines when they first stormed forth. The stewardesses for
Southwest wore some of the most “micro” dresses ever made as part of
a “uniform”.

Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses
by Donald Bain , Baker Trudy , Jones Rachel
http://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Uninhibited-Memoirs-Airline-Stewardesses/dp/0142003514/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196289995&sr=8-1


74 posted on 11/28/2007 2:57:49 PM PST by VOA
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To: VOA

You’re right, but the “Fly me” is just as good. My brother in law recently mentioned the SouthWest Airlines uniforms to me. Kind of like Hooters outfits.


75 posted on 11/28/2007 3:00:32 PM PST by Williams
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To: LibWhacker; MikefromOhio

Of course not.

Sincerely,
Orenthal

76 posted on 11/28/2007 3:02:25 PM PST by RichInOC ([BING! BING! BING!] "One hundred percent...guilty.")
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To: RichInOC

What a crack up!!!!

Though I love the song “Isn’t it Romantic,” one verse is really quite sexist:

Isn’t it romantic?
Soon I will have found some girl that I adore.
Isn’t it romantic?
While I sit around my love can scrub the floor.
She’ll kiss me every hour or she’ll get the sack
And when I take a shower she can scrub my back.

Isn’t it romantic?
On a moonlight night she’ll cook me onion soup.
Kiddies are romantic
And if we don’t fight we soon will have a troupe.
We’ll help the population,
It’s a duty that we owe to dear old France.
Isn’t it romance?


77 posted on 11/28/2007 3:12:12 PM PST by Watershed
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To: ansel12

I love your #69.


78 posted on 11/28/2007 3:14:55 PM PST by wjcsux (Islam: The religion of choice for those who are too stupid for Scientology)
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To: VOA

“I’m Kirstin. Fly me.” was National Airlines.

And then there’s Continental, who back in the Seventies, when they were “The Proud Bird With The Golden Tail” (and competing against the aforementioned National ad campaign) ran a commercial portraying several stews dancing and singing “We really move our tail for you”. Yeah, they got a little bit of grief for that. Even then.


79 posted on 11/28/2007 3:15:41 PM PST by RichInOC (I'm NOT getting old! I'm NOT! I'm NOT! I'm NOT!)
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To: Michael A. Velli

Amen, bro.

The “crotchety old fart” element around here seems to be growing these days. :p

I suppose it’s the natural consequence of computers becoming easier to use and more accessible, but it’s still annoying. At least most of them are weaned of AOL by now, lolz.


80 posted on 11/28/2007 3:22:24 PM PST by Constantine XIII
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