Monday, April 7, 2008
Vintage sexism
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For kicks, I was looking up some vintage sexist advertising that promotes nice little obedient and submissive women of the 50s and 60s. My favorites:
Ugh. It's everywhere. And people ignorantly claim that sexism hardly exists anymore. It exists, just in different forms. Today, we are so used to seeing sexualized images of women that we often fail to notice them and acknowledge how harmful they are. Keep an eye out, and try your best to avoid becoming numb to them.
Ah, the wonderful advertising from decades ago. Looking at these, I tried to take comfort in the fact that ads promoting the obedient housewife and the submissive woman are no longer as common as they once were, but I can't lie to myself. Advertising, I think, has gotten worse. Now, ads promote women as sex objects, and many utilize underlying messages of domination, abuse, and rape. Some examples:
(Reads "The Axe Effect")
Ugh. It's everywhere. And people ignorantly claim that sexism hardly exists anymore. It exists, just in different forms. Today, we are so used to seeing sexualized images of women that we often fail to notice them and acknowledge how harmful they are. Keep an eye out, and try your best to avoid becoming numb to them.
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April 8, 2008 at 1:11 AM
I do like a He-Man aroma! lolz
but yeah that last one from the vintage ads... with the dude standing on the girl's decapitated head... that creeped me out big time. It's scary... and more than just promoting women as submissive... it's violent and dehumanizing.. ugh.
October 6, 2010 at 4:19 PM
These photos looks great, and pretty sexiest. By the way my grandpa says that models turns him to Buy Kamagra.
January 18, 2012 at 12:23 AM
Today, activists all over the world are gathering on bridges to show their support for gender equality. It might be too late to attend a bridge gathering near you, but you can see from this map just how many bridge events happened across the globe. Pretty incredible.
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