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As the above shows ..You can find hundreds of worse ads .. If you look!
As an Obama-son look-a-like .. I find them rather amusing and being on the other side of sixty .. I can remember when no one knew enough to be offended even over the one's I just posted.
Maybe they should have put a duck in the ad. You really think if that ad ran today it wouldn't be offensive and considered racist? Ads are meant to send messages.
I bet you only see an ad for a box of pancakes and no sterotyping:
Quaker Oats updated the photo in later years and gave Aunt Jemima earrings and a necklace. How nice. Eventually the photo was removed. I found this letter relating to the petition to remove the image. Read it and you may understand why certain images that were "perceived" as acceptable then would not be acceptable today, except maybe acceptable to you.
The vacuum cleaner ad is not offensive. The woman has a new gadget and is playing with it. She is reading instructions instead of having the man figure it out. That is kind of feminist for the time.
Many of the other ads are not offensive, they were snarky and people had a better sense of humor back then, got the little jokes. No one really expected a man to spank his wife, it was a joke.
Maybe it is because I am old enough to actually remember the Bad Old Days when much of this type of advertisement was "accepted" but looking at those ads made me want to cry.
These ads show the backwardness of the times in which they were made and illustrate just how far we have evolved as a society and in our ability to reason in just a few decades.
Still, among the ugly and offensive, there are a couple that made me LOL:
Looking at those ads from the vantage point of 2013, I'm not offended. In the social context of their time, they were acceptable and there is no point in being offended by it now.
Looking at those ads from the vantage point of 2013, I'm not offended. In the social context of their time, they were acceptable and there is no point in being offended by it now.
[they are artifacts of the past]
I know you might find this hard to believe but there were actual people alive at the time of these ads who were hurt by them then and, truth to tell, still are.
I know you might find this hard to believe but there were actual people alive at the time of these ads who were hurt by them then and, truth to tell, still are.
I don't see them as shocking. There is a lot of truth in the adds. People today don't want to talk about truth. Women at the time were home makers. They wanted Hoovers. Women today still would rather look hot than be smart and ugly, the only women who say not are the ugly ones. You can't handle the truth.
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