You mean a WOMAN can open it??

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You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 11:19am

Actually, this little book of postcards featuring sexist ads of yore has been out for a while, but its getting a spanking reissue!
You mean a WOMAN can open it?

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#2

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 11:24am

I'd love to know what was in Kellogg's PEP!

Vitameatavegamin?

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#3

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 11:26am

That spanking one is actually horrifying.

Almost as horrifying as watching some 70's game shows and seeing all the women who bought into the role that advertising sold them.

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#4

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 11:33am

Those ads reek of acrid cigar smoke wafting around all-male ad agency conference rooms.

There's some not so subliminal messages going on there, too.

#5

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 11:40am

Shut up, and get me a beer.

#6

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 11:43am

STFU!

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#7

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 12:14pm

Those ads are brilliantly hideous. They made me laugh and ponder.

I think the creepiest part is it wasn't that long ago.

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#8

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 12:25pm

And yet, I see these ads and wonder really how far women have come. The Equal Rights Amendment failed each time it was brought to national attention, reproductive rights continue to be eroded, a woman running for president engenders questions such as "How do we beat the bitch?" (and that was asked by a woman!) that are met with laughter and approval.

Has the women's movement of the 70s just completley petered out? Are most women content to still let men control and dominate them and their bodies, just in different, more sublte ways?

#9

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 12:33pm

i thought those were hilarious, but i'm kinda messed up lol

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Posted: 11/29/07 at 1:15pm

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#11

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 1:17pm

Ah, those were the days!

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#12

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 1:31pm

I was watching an "I Love Lucy" marathon over the Thanksgiving holiday. I love that show. But I was freaked out by one of the jokes.

I wish I could remember the set-up. But Lucy was talking to Ethel about not looking good in some color or another. Ethel said something like "Well, have you told Ricky?" And obviously, Lucy was going to to have some s'plainin' to do, because her reply was "No. I don't look good in black and blue, either." Yikes.

#13

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 3:25pm

Oh that show, classic as it is, is chock full of awful displays of misogyny. Lucy's fear that Ricky was gonna beat the sh*t out of her was always played for humor. I think knowing that Lucille Ball was really a shrewd businesswoman helps to mitigate that, but there are plenty of jokes on that show that are cringe-worthy, even when you put it in historical context.

Updated On: 11/29/07 at 03:25 PM

#14

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 3:53pm

The biggest mysogyny was that Lucy Ricardo was a great performer, while Ricky's show at the Tropicana sucked!

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Posted: 11/29/07 at 4:06pm

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#16

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 4:11pm

Those ads reek of acrid cigar smoke wafting around all-male ad agency conference rooms.

Ok, now that's just hot.

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#17

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 4:50pm

>Ok, now that's just hot.

Well, it would be, if the guys all looked like the dude in sonofmamamiasam's avatar, Santa hats and all. And weren't full of misdirected misogynistic rage. Then it'd be totally hot.

#18

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 5:58pm

...I'm trying really hard to "have a sense of humor" and "lighten up" about these ads, but it's really, really a struggle for me, they really piss me off.

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#19

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 6:16pm

Speaking of I LOVE LUCY, there was an episode where Ricky would spank Lucy over his knee as a way to "discipline" her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvVZtiTTvWI

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#20

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 10:28pm

"i would never let a woman push me around. if she tried i'd be all like 'hey! you get your bitch ass back in the kitchen... and make me some pie!'"

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Ugly is beautiful
"My brother plays a drag queen... and I'm surprised he looks as good as he does in drag." - Adam Rapp

"thanks, abba. now i'll forever have an image of you as a tattoed hardcore straightedge grrl savaging people in the mosh pit." - papalovesmambo

"Yeah Abba. All the filthy crap you spew out there on those boards. I for one, am equally shocked. :-P" - AnnaK

#21

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/29/07 at 10:41pm

"i would never let a woman push me around. if she tried i'd be all like 'hey! you get your bitch ass back in the kitchen... and make me some pie!'"

Sure, Cartman, as long as you work and pay all the bills while I stay home and play housewife.

#22

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/30/07 at 3:46am

>..I'm trying really hard to "have a sense of humor" and "lighten up" about these ads, but it's really, really a struggle for me, they really piss me off.

Yeah, they're awful. They're funny in that "look at what used to pass for advertising!" sense, but all those ads are essentially violent and demeaning.

#23

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/30/07 at 7:30am

Are you ogling me ny? Shouldn't you be getting knocked up or something?

#24

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:43am

Shut up and get me a beer.

#25

re: You mean a WOMAN can open it??

Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:43am

Oh. . it's Roseanne.

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