I remember all these ads from the 1960s and 1970s, and they were offensive then, and they are even worse now. You wonder what in the hell the people--men almost entirely then--from the ad campaigns were even thinking.
Here is the legendary Geritol ad from 1972, which offended everybody with any brains:
And here is a series of vintage Folger's ads which dripped of sexism. If I had been on the soundstage of especially the ad of the dead petunias, I would have told that actor playing my husband to take that coffee pot and shove it up his ass.
One of the best parts of the original Ms. magazine was the "No Comment" section at the end of each issue. Readers would submit newspaper or magazine ads of sexist ads. They were hilariously awful. The magazine has since abandoned the feature.
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