[goldstategop]

Outrageously funny. Which is why the NOW NAGs don't like male-female pairings. It always ends up with the man in the lead.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Obadiah]

I don’t get it.

[firebrand]

They forgot the one where the woman can’t pronounce “Martini & Rossi Asti Spumanti.” That way the man gets to say it over and over till you’re ready to throw the radio.

[GATOR NAVY]

So now we’re at the other extreme. If there’s an idiot in a ad or commercial that idiot will almost always be a white male.

[tophat9000]

Yes an ad or a man would never say this about a women today...

But ad’s and woman would and do say this about a men today all day long...

They call it sexual "equality"

[wideawake]

Of course, in most of today's TV advertisements we see the following scenario:

Usually a white man, but sometimes a white woman, who is too stupid and classless to solve a problem - and their dilemma is usually solved by a black woman or sometimes a black man who is far more intelligent and/or stylish than the white schnook in question.

My wife cracks up whenever I see one of these advertisements come on, because I inevitably say: "Aaarghh! I can't stand these stupid white people! Where can I buy this product?"

[untenured]

Occasionally when listening to classic rock on the car radio I realize that some songs couldn't be released without a lot of protest today due to lyrics about violence against women (The Beatles' Run For Your life, for starters).

[ASOC]

LOL

Forget all the Cigarillo ads with the hot babe puffing the product.

[HanneyBean]

Bump

[Spok]

I tried treating the women in my office as equals and ended up in sensitivity training.

[Captainpaintball]

Great ads!

[dfwgator]

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

More like as the Rolling Stones put it, "Mother's Little Helper."

[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.

[Graybeard58]

I remember when tv remote controls started to become popular. The joke then was. "A man is pretty damn'd lazy if he can't even tell his wife to get up and change the channel".

[Andonius_99]

BFLR

[wjcsux]

Do you remember the Brylcream hair jel commercials with the blonde babe coming out of the tube? Its a classic.

[najida]

Oh goody!
More woman bashing from conservative males!

Thank you....I’m gonna bookmark this.

[southernnorthcarolina]

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.

Was this article written by a woman? Whoever the author was should be told that the word is harebrained (with or without a hyphen). The refererence is to the small brain of a hare, not to a hair.

[VOA]

Some good ones from long-ago in a place far, far away called Oklahoma...

from my vague childhood memory of the early 1960s...a large sign
painted on building of a car dealer:

"Bring in your wife and title
and let's trade cars!"

AND

The sewing-machine seller in Tulsa that would include a new shotgun
when you got the little lady a new sewing machine.

It was another world. And it existed here in The USA!

[Impugn]

This was from a commercial in the Philadelphia area during the early 1970's (was embarrassingly enough played well into the 1989's)...absolute classic song for Ideal Manufacturing (clothing) Company - (audio link). Here is their website: http://mcnally.cc/ideal.htm.

As for the flat-out most sexist commercials in the history of television, nothing beats Philadelphia's Krass Brothers ("Store of the Stars"). You can actually SEE the women get increasingly degraded over the span of the very short commercials.

For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu56WdkNNF0

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBdNZAPA-U

There are several more of them posted on YouTube...usually 12 seconds or less.