History textbooks often skip what life was like for the everyday, average person in the past. One way to really step inside of history it to take a look at vintage advertisements. And because we all need a little humor in our life, I present…drumroll…Throwback Thursdays. Enjoy. Or at least roll your eyes in scorn.
Corsets telling women that they need to be thin to catch a man. Cookware showing that your role in life is cooking. Wait a minute, that’s today. Not vintage. And I love cooking! Oh, yeah, it’s the assumption I can’t do anything BUT cook that’s “offensive.” Anyway, my choices seemed endless this week. In fact, I had to choose between the many sexist ads for “Palmolive” soap. I may have to feature them more in the future, haha.
My question for you, dear readers: do you agree with the ad? Is it honest? Do most men ask “is she pretty?”, not “is she clever?”
Anyway, here’s my favorite of the week, direct to you from the 1920’s.
Enjoy. And if you want a few more laughs, visit the “Vintage Ads“and “Insane Vintage Recipes” pages.
It is absolutely true we men usually ask “is she pretty?”.
We never ask “is she clever?”
In the same way women ask “does he have money? does he have a job? if so what kind of job? is he an entrepreneur? does he have a college degree? a masters perhaps? where does he works? does he own a house?”
We men we demand far less from a woman
I think the point of reviewing the ad from the modern perspective was to point out the fallacy of such thinking. As such, your suggested questions that women ask would also be a fallacy in thinking.
It was not an exercise in which sex is worse.
GO MEN GO MEN GO MEN