dated ads

[TsPoet]

Oh My...we have indeed come a long ways

...baby
http://www.uvouch.com/video-Commerci...ay-Baby-516808
- an add they thought was complementary to women.

[maillotpois]

"You can't beat the Axis if you get VD..."

[Crankin]

What's scary is that I remember almost all of these. Especially the cigarette ones.

[OakLeaf]

Not so far removed from the present day as to be funny, to me. Domestic violence, dangerous medical interventions for natural female bodily functions, and of course a grossly unequal division of labor, are still the reality in the USA. Advertising is a little more subtle about it now, is all.

[Susan]

I wish they were bigger, I can't read the small texts... would be nice material for teaching or discussion in gender-workshops.

[malkin]

Some of them are horrifying.

I like La Biere est nourrissante except that it looks like the artist had no idea what a nursing mom & baby might look like.

[channlluv]

What do you mean? I looked just like that mom on the left when I was nursing. Minus the beer, of course. Ha!

Do you think the woman in that Van Heusen ad in the middle looks like she's enjoying the spanking? Maybe that's what leads up to the kissing and after glow pictures that follow it. I dunno, some people are into that kind of thing.

The Baby Soft ad is just repulsive. I can't believe that got out even with the 70s standards. You can tell ad writers were mostly men back then, huh? And apparently a lot of dirty old men.

Roxy

[TsPoet]

I wish they were bigger, I can't read the small texts... would be nice material for teaching or discussion in gender-workshops.

On a PC - hold the control and depress the + key, will make the web pager bigger. On a Mac its the command and + buttons.
ah, getting older, the things we learn

[colby]

I was surprised to see an ad for prescribing a drug; since we see them so often these days it's interesting to see how far it goes back. Also easy to criticise it in the same method that could be applied to many modern ads - directly reminds me of the excedrin migraine commercial (take our drug, it lets you get back to helping others).

The "you never feel over-smoked with marlboro" ad was pretty creepy. :P

Babies in cellophane... WTF!? I did laugh out loud at the pig slicing itself. Seriously.

What an interesting collection.

[OakLeaf]

I was surprised to see an ad for prescribing a drug; since we see them so often these days it's interesting to see how far it goes back.

I think it was a regulatory decision by the FDA. Back in the day, drug ads ran in medical journals. Conflicts of interest? No one had heard of them back then.

[Catrin]

...baby
http://www.uvouch.com/video-Commerci...ay-Baby-516808
- an add they thought was complementary to women.

That is why I didn't finish the line... I was born in 59 and do remember some of these ads...I am still amazed that these saw publication.