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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: subterfuge
They lambaste black males almost as much.

only if no crackers are around.....one group the movies do pick on besides "whites" are Indians (not the noble savage one)

81 posted on 11/28/2007 3:25:24 PM PST by wardaddy (I'm praying for Fred......our only decent hope......)
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To: LibWhacker

LUV IT BUMP!


82 posted on 11/28/2007 3:28:06 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Spok
I tried treating the women in my office as equals and ended up in sensitivity training.

Speaking from adirect and recent experience, believe, you were lucky it was only that!

83 posted on 11/28/2007 3:36:54 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: LibWhacker
this is the one that infuriated me when I was a girl. Check out the kitchen!
84 posted on 11/28/2007 3:50:39 PM PST by jaybee
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To: wardaddy

Commercials on Japanese TV are a blast. Not PC at all.


85 posted on 11/28/2007 3:55:11 PM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: jaybee

I’m a guy, but what used to infuriate me was how on TV and in the movies when there would be a fight how the girls would huddle in the corner and wring their hands. It made me embarrassed for the women. At least now the girls fight.


86 posted on 11/28/2007 4:05:49 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: dfwgator

Gunilla Knudsen. I’ll bet she was overexposed after that commercial ran 90 million times. I don’t think I ever saw her again.


87 posted on 11/28/2007 4:38:02 PM PST by firebrand
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To: dfwgator

My wife would say, “okay, what did you do THIS time?”


88 posted on 11/28/2007 4:45:18 PM PST by Fledermaus (The Dark Knight is coming !)
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To: ichabod1

“I’m a guy, but what used to infuriate me was how on TV and in the movies when there would be a fight how the girls would huddle in the corner and wring their hands. It made me embarrassed for the women. At least now the girls fight”


TV used to be more real

If you think that that the women and girls don’t head for the corners or the exits when the men’s blood runs hot, then you don’t run on the dark side of life.

In hard core bars where the yuppies don’t go, the women do not play at being someone that will go toe to toe with the men.


89 posted on 11/28/2007 5:12:03 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
More at www.annetaintor.com
90 posted on 11/28/2007 6:08:43 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: ansel12

You’re right. I don’t run on the ‘dark side’.


91 posted on 11/28/2007 7:59:13 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: ichabod1

“You’re right. I don’t run on the ‘dark side’.”

Not many people do, it is amazing that the hardest, toughest women are found there, and while they may kick ass and scare the other females in society, they mess with the men in their world less than a little suburban housewife will mess with the men in her world.


92 posted on 11/28/2007 8:33:13 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

Thanks to you, I spent 5 hours tonight looking at the Krass brothers ads, going to Local Philadelphia station promos, then going all over the country, from New york to Washington (WTOP was disturbing) to LA, and finally ending up at TV studio logos like Paramount, and Viacom. I don’t know why, but as a kid, and it seems for many people, those station and studio IDs seemed to scare young children. Anyway, here’s some highlights from my YouTube surfing:

THIS ONE IS HILARIOUS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApiPS6GAy_0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgGXLAc7F-c&feature=related


93 posted on 11/29/2007 1:33:35 AM PST by Captainpaintball
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To: ansel12

I will say this. I knew a little woman once who would get in the face of those so-called ‘dark side’ men all the time. Called it opening a can of feminine whup-ass. She thought she could intimidate men so thoroughly she was perfectly safe. I told her that only works as long as the men want to play along. When men decide to drop the civilized veneer and go with the natural thing, she’s screwed.

But there are plenty of women willing to whack somebody over the head with a barstool if he’s beating up her guy.


94 posted on 11/29/2007 7:00:28 AM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: ansel12

btw... I used to find myself on the dark side entirely too frequently, and I finally realized I’m not equipped for that world and I’d get along much better if I just stayed out.


95 posted on 11/29/2007 7:02:17 AM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Obadiah
everyone happy in line as they make purchases until some dolt uses cash and crashes the well-oiled machine.

My wife and daughter both work in retail and tell me that there's a lot of truth in that ad, except that cash doesn't crash the party - checks do, because of the slow, tedious way they have to verify them.

96 posted on 11/29/2007 7:04:26 AM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: LibWhacker

Ah, the good old days. :)


97 posted on 11/29/2007 7:06:31 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ichabod1

“She thought she could intimidate men so thoroughly she was perfectly safe. I told her that only works as long as the men want to play along.”

LOL I have seen that, especially in cowboy bars where two deadly guys will get flustered if a female owner or bar maid starts dressing them down.

Those women know men and how to work a crowd, but I have seen those same women lose that confidence when in a setting where they weren’t so sure of the nature of the group.


98 posted on 11/29/2007 7:21:15 AM 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: Captainpaintball
Thanks to you, I spent 5 hours tonight looking at the Krass brothers ads, going to Local Philadelphia station promos, then going all over the country, from New york to Washington (WTOP was disturbing) to LA, and finally ending up at TV studio logos like Paramount, and Viacom. I don’t know why, but as a kid, and it seems for many people, those station and studio IDs seemed to scare young children. Anyway, here’s some highlights from my YouTube surfing:

Glad to help push you along on a nice little cyber journey... :). I used to drive one of my former bosses apesheet nuts by humming the first line of that Ideal commercial jingle...it would bounce around in his melon for the remainder of the day. :)

Yikes...it is amazing that Willard Scott surpassed that early level of creepiness - who'd have thought it possible. That's one of those clowns that you'd never let near the children...the clown doll from Poltergeist was less scary. Heh.

Five hours of Krass brothers ads has been known to cause dementia. :). Nice little writeup about the owner of the store (guy in commercials) here: http://www.broadcastpioneers.com/krass.html

From the article: "His last wish was to have a plaque inscribed, 'He went in a Krass Brothers suit.' He did!"

99 posted on 11/29/2007 2:56:57 PM PST by Impugn (I am standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.)
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To: LibWhacker
"SHUT UP AND GET IN THE CAR"

Can't remember the commercial though. And it sure looks likea 1970 Goldi Hawn behind the wheel of the Mini.

100 posted on 11/29/2007 3:01:27 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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