Does Worth1000 ever do a "modern" vintage ad contest?

Some of these could be fantastic starters.

Some ads, in the context of the times, make sense. Others are pretty much sexist regardless of the culture. Good reminder of how things have changed; and in some cases, how they haven't.

"If you ever broke 14 fingernails cleaning an oven, you'd know why I want this self-cleaning one."

Polydactyl?

In the context of our hypersensitive modern world, the Ivory ad is a bit creepy but I don't see how these are any more sexist than modern ads. The Axe body spray commercials come to mind (probably because I just saw one).

I'll give you, the oven one is pure sexism, no doubt, but half naked women are still used to sell things and women are still sold beauty and feminine hygiene products in the context of becoming more appealing to men. And lets not forget that men are pitched to in the same manner. Your alpha male status is improved if you use this, or you might be less of a man if you don't use this!

It's simply the nature of advertising and human nature.

I agree with you... the person who put this together:

1) apparently believes that if a woman does anything at all just to please her husband, it's sexist.

2) has no context of the times when women used to stay home and take care of chores and children while the man went to work.... as it has been for I don't know maybe thousands of years. (not that I have a problem with women working people).

3) that the era that most of these ads were made was so sexually repressed that showing some skin would help sell some shoe shine and cigarettes dammit!

4) obviously doesn't have any knowledge toward the exact same advertising going on today!

Looks like mom had a bunch of Playboy™ magazines in her basement.


For the real sexist stuff she needs to go through her moms pr0n collection.

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