Nov.11.2008 The 9 most disturbingly misogynistic old print ads
You may find it hard to believe, but apparently women were treated with some sort of disrespect by advertisers at one point in history. Here are nine of the most bizarre and anti-woman ads ever.
This is the only foreign ad of the bunch but it’s an ad for tampons that, for some reason, indicates that a good usage is to tie a dead fish to your tampon string. Now, I’m no gynecologist (well, not professionally at least; I dabble in amateur work), but I could imagine that hanging a fish from your cooch won’t help your vaginal situation. In fact, it may make it worse. Much worse. Especially for the fish. I’m pretty sure that’s how Flounder from the Little Mermaid died.
If I had a dollar for every time I had to spank a woman for not getting me fresh Sanka, I’d have…many…dollars. It was always kind of awkward when I was living with my mom though.
The only way that this is a justifiable gift is if he were regularly slapping her in the face because she was such an awful cook. Because then while a “Chef” is a shitty gift, her real gift is less black eyes. And filing less police reports. It’s a gift that keeps on giving.
In related news, whenever a girl lets me blow something in her face, I’m more inclined to follow her everywhere.
I can’t say I “disagree” with this ad in the traditional sense. It’s always fairly arousing to see a woman doing cleaning activities. Particularly when the words “Dirty Latina” are involved, but I guess there’s some flexibility in this case.
There are so many things wrong with this ad…the emotionally disturbed girl, the lifelessly colored Trix and, of course, the fact that the ad is saying 5 year-old “women” need love. All these factors lead me to believe one thing: The Trix Rabbit has been fucking kids for all these years. It explains so much…of course they wouldn’t give him any Trix, he was slapping their asses with his floppy ears and inserting carrots inside of them for years.
You hear that ladies? Your vagina is a cess pool. I also hear that some of you have bear traps installed inside of you so that when a guy has sex with you, WHAM, bear trap. The vagina is a crafty beast, my friends.
I can’t imagine this is a real conversation. My sex talk with my dad was basically him saying “Wear a condom and, if you forget, pull out” and that was still pretty awkward. I can’t imagine him then going into a discussion on how to avoid “Ball funk” and how it’s a problem afflicting many boys. Especially if this speech came while he was wearing a towel with his foot up on a bench. Though I guess visual aids are typically helpful.
In accordance with Megan’s Law, I have nothing to say about this photo.
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If you liked this, you may like this other sexist ad or The 7 Most Delightfully Perverse Toy Commercials. And feel free to add your own witty comments about the ads in the little comment box below.
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Your comments are equally as sexist as the ads themselves.
Thanks Matt! I don’t think the article would be much fun if I just went “Ohhh shucks, girl power!” after every image.
“Your comments are equally as sexist as the ads themselves.”
It’s called “irony”.
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I trust the perpetrators of that last ad are now safely put-away in some federal prison?
oh yea prison!…well no… they are millionairres or were (if their dead now)
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This is great.
“I’m like a fish in the water”? WTF? Maybe it’s the tampon saying that its soggy, and she maybe ought to think about changing the festering thing! (Meanwhile, i find the english quotes on a french phrase, odd. Oh well.)
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Im still laughing over that disturbed Trix girl lol.
haha great list.
nice work
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Sadly have ads really changed? ha ha How many husbands who can’t make dinner themselves or don’t know how to mop a floor do we have to see in support of tv dinners and floor cleansers ha ha
“I’m like a fish in the water”? WTF? Maybe it’s the tampon saying that its soggy, and she maybe ought to think about changing the festering thing! (Meanwhile, i find the english quotes on a french phrase, odd. Oh well.)”
I think it has something to do with the idea that fish in the water don’t smell - fishy.
Holey-Moley. I expected a bunch of yellowed ads from 1900. There is some 70s and 80s stuff here!
Yikes!
‘It’s called “irony”.’
Oh, surprise, yet another idiot on the interwebs who doesn’t know what the word “irony” means.
Chris is right. And misogyny is no more “hilarious” than racism or antisemitism or any other form of bigotry. Pick up the clue phone already, dudebro.
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Don’t get all butthurt because you can’t laugh at things.
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the tampon ad is simply implying that their tampons don’t fall out, so much so that you could use the string to catch fish.
I don’t know if it’s the same in France/Francophone countries but in Wales, England and other Anglophone countries there’s an old insult that goes along the lines of:
‘What’s that fishy smell? Put your legs together, you twat!’
that implies that a vagina smells like a fish or is fishy. Now I don’t know what the hell that has to do with tampons, but that was the first association I had with vagina-fish.
“Pick up the clue phone already, dudebro.”
haha qwerty123 are you kidding me what group of people uses this language in 2008?
your comment incomprehensible, do you agree or not that the bloggers comments are ironic?
“And misogyny is no more “hilarious” than racism or antisemitism”
I disagree, I find it much funnier. Who are you to dictate what people find funny. I am not going to go into the reasoning behind why it makes me laugh but you are certainly not qualified to DICTATE what people should find funny. The things on the very edge of social acceptance are usually the funniest things so in a way your fussy little heckle makes this funnier!
There is a great sketch on the Fast Show, Women Know Your Limits. look it up.
My anti-spam word was “BROAD”
Just wanted to share that.
The one warning sailors about vd is not sexist. It’s the truth. They’re talking about prostitutes in the 40’s when no one used condoms. The simple fact is that the girl who looks completely “clean” can still have an std and is the one who most likely does. Especially if she’s a prostitute. Think about it. Women who look like they have stds don’t get laid.
J - I’ve seen similar comments on this site and some other social media sites this post was up on, but I disagree. It’s not talking about just hookers, it’s basically talking about any girl who’d put out easy. And yes, while many women are complete whores, not any girl you pick up is going to be riddled with STDs and various creamy diseases.
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Only the first five are truly sexist or misogynist. The others are just odd.
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“cause you can’t fight the axis if you got VD.” –lmao…
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Dude, you forgot the Lysol Feminine Hygene ad!
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7325/1389160702ffb202fa4beg6.jpg
What kind of monster would make women think it’s safe to dump floor cleanser in their hoo-haa?!
back when advertising meant something…
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Good gawd the sexist and misogynistic comments here ARE like something from the fifties never mind the ads.
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Excellent
fuckin love it. thank you. and thanks for the heads up to gravatar…
get in the kitchen and make me a sammich!!!
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Interesting. You can check out my response at http://genderbot.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-isnt-being-said.html.
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Here’s a great bit of Misogynistic advertising (read the copy)
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enjoy
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i liked how he spelt trix wrong even though its in the very picture he comments on
Shelagh,
I like how you wrote “spelt”, which isn’t a word at all. Please get AIDS and die.
Warmest Regards,
Chris
to delking: you are obviously a man, so you find these ads funny? ads treating women like an inferior being, like a servant made to please the men…. treating her genitals like something nasty ….. do men’s genitals smell like flowers?????
buy yourself a brain…..
Chris: I love how you corrected shelagh…… maybe you’ll love this better:
Main Entry: spelt
Pronunciation:
\ˈspelt\
chiefly British past and past participle of spell
Please get a dictionary and read it,
warmest regards
Margot
…this is an American blog.
The point is that coming on a Web site which churns out content quickly and regularly to nitpick spelling (in a post that had the same thing spelled correctly three other times IN THE SAME PARAGRAPH) is just a waste of everyone’s time and make you look like a cuntrag. And spelt is fucking retarded and comes up as incorrect on MY AMERICAN SPELLCHECK.
So I guess the point is that I hope your next child is stillborn, Margot.
Smooches,
Chris
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“Disrespect the shit out of her, and she’ll follow you anywhere”
From Tipalet
Wow, what the heck? That last one….there are no words.
Chris:
Just because you don’t recognize a word that is acceptable in countries that, oh, INVENTED English, admit you’re wrong and stop looking like a tool. Oh, and using the word “retarded” as well as sounding like an ignorant nationalist probably isn’t winning you any fans.
*Smooches*
Ugh.
@Chris:
I love how you call someone a “cuntrag” on a blog post highlighting misogynistic print ads. Awesome.
I’m going to assume all parties involved are adults, in which case: using the internet — ur doing it wrong.
If you can’t accept usage of the word retarded in a perfectly acceptable situation, then I don’t want you as a reader or any of the smooches you’re offering, Shiv.
I’m sorry “spelt” or “dreamt” just do not look good to me. Dare I say, America, fuck yeah.
EDIT: To ninjarobotpirate…touché. Though one could argue that the word cuntrag is empowering. They’d probably be wrong, but one could argue it.
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I’m pretty certain the Tampax ad came from that crazy French magazine that makes satirical ads. It’s not real, people.
http://tinyurl.com/694af7 Heh.
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The French ad states, “I am like a fish in water.”
Which means the tampon is supposed to feel at home in a woman’s vagina, still odd to use a fish to describe a tampon in a woman’s vagina. Although professional and amateur gynecologist may agree that a tampon should feel at home in a vagina.
All of the ads place women in a secondary and subservient light and/or claim women are not clean and need a good cleaning regularly.
The last add is creepy.
great adds … need more of them … nothing disturbing here. So welcome to the real world girls. You have all your freedom and your broke. The country is broke. Everybody works to pay taxes to the banksters and politicans. You go girl. Your free now! now get your arse off the couch and get to work.
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Great collection, but your captions are ridiculously unfunny. You might as well remove them.
Yes. Because this site is clearly designed to be appreciated by pathetic cuckolds/comedic geniuses like you, Bob.
“Might as well remove” would have been a more accurate statement to make while pointing at your mother’s womb a couple of weeks after you were conceived.
Joe, darling! I have three jobs! (one full time, two part time.) Behold my sexy job-fu.
These ads are comedy gold, if a tad bit disturbing as well! For more vintage wrongness, I recommend lileks.com where James Lileks sporks terrible old advertisements of all types.
Some more for you to paruse “the eternal triagle” and “Julia” there are other videos on you tube of amazingly sexist charger commercials too.
for example..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5kSNwAidSk
the print ads:
http://www.classicautoimages.com/SunShop/images/products/69eternal-triangle.jpg
&
http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ukbCuAZjqZPWDM:http://www.kimberry.com/ARCHIVES/2005/autoshow/69dodgecharger.jpg
some of the these appeared in Playboy - which is where i first saw them..
Dodge Chargers mostly appeal to men, though i know a few woman owners too..
Strat aka Brock Samson.
While thia is disturbing, I find many ads still are sexist and depend heavily on stereo types! Thse are beyond words!!
The first one kind’a reminds me of what Obama said about Sarah Palin; you know, the one about a FISH wrapped in a newspaper.
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I enjoyed the ads almost as much as the tired and predictable yelps of righteous indignation from Margot, Bob, Matthew and the other oxygen thieving twats that seem to frequent the comment board here. I would tell you pathetic fuckwits to wipe the sand from your curdled vaginas, but your comments amuse me far too much.
http://tinyurl.com/694af7 This made me lol.
The first one isn’t a real ad its from a French book of ad parodies.
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I honestly don’t know. This made me simultaneously “what the fucking fuck?!” and …
for all those that were offended about the ads or the coments,most of all for the ladies:jeez,who lit the fuse on your tampons?Gawd,those were representative for a far dated time,and the cooments were IRONIC!!!!!If you can’t get a joke,than stay away from sites like this.A,and btw,before you start calling me a chauvinist pig and things like that:wrong target-I’m a woman
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Your comments were more amusing than the ads, I must admit. As a woman, I found the ads entertaining, but then again, stereotypes are meant to be bucked.
That and your comments were more self-deprecating than sexist or even ironic (your comment about following the girl made me laugh hard enough to almost drop my laptop from the couch).
“You can’t beat the Axis if you get VD”
hahahahaha
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I see nothing wrong with these advertisements (with exception the last one, fuck). I believe women should be in the kitchen, it worked well in the 50’s right? I mean families were happier in the 50’s than today.
The secret to a good marriage is to make your wife cook, clean, do chores and fulfil all of your sexual needs without ever saying no.
“Life Changing”
old fashion… :)
Wow. the pictures were great, the captions were funny, and the comments? Wow. Everyone just needs to calm down.
The ENTIRE Bear Trap Comment was applause worthy!
BRAVO my friend - BRAVO!!!
Seems to me someone has been hurt in his Ego!
These are pretty crazy ads from back in the day: http://bit.ly/lsPZ
Your comments were hilarious. And you CAN beat the Axis with VD. Ask your grandpa.
Margot: “buy a brain” died out as an imprecation in the mid seventies. I believe its last known use was on a Brady Bunch episode. Thus it is you who need to “buy a brain.” And saying ‘interwebs’ does not make you any less uptight. Deep breath and unclench Margot, unclench.
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Disturbing and sickening. Where were peoples minds in these times
The most disturbing aspect to me is that this was once normalcy; namely the sexy children part. Nothing wrong with that, right? *Shudders*…..
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these are fantastic - I love the Tampax one - it’s hilarious.
However that last one makes me feel EXTREMELY uncomfortable.
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Does AOL actually know that complete morons are wrting these segments. First of all, you’re an idiot. You start off complaining about the ads, but it looks like you agree with them, and on top of that, you’re a racist. How nice of you to come clean to the rest of the world showing your true colors. You’re the type of person who has a problem with women. You secretly hate them don’t you? You really thought this was going to be funny? Well it’s not. Why don’t you read the crap you wrote from a different prespective before you put it up, Moron.
What does AOL have to do with anything? And Moron is not my birth name so you don’t have to worry about capitalizing it as though it were a proper name.
Also please choke on an AIDS banana.
Regards,
Chris
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“I’m like a fish in water” - meaning the tampon was comfortable, in a natural place, etc.
Women though wearing tampons would be invasive, thus they try to calm this fear.
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