Procter & Gamble

[write-light.livejournal.com]

and Crisco, indirectly.



"those little white hands you like"  That last paragraph pretty much sums up advertising and women in the 20th century.

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[rick-day.livejournal.com]

er...

obviously this is satire...

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Nope- it's part of a 1952 campaign. I'll post more later.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

er...but read the tag line.

I'm having trouble swallowing this as real LOL.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

Didn't please all those people who died from heart disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#Coronary_heart_disease) from constantly eating the artificial trans fats in partially hydrogenated Crisco.

How things change...by the time I was a young adult in the mid-90s, I had at least one person call me "Suzy Homemaker" behind my back because she thought my efforts toward being a good cook were anti-feminist. Well, she also wanted my boyfriend, so that could have had something to do with it. :D

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Well, that sounds like an effective strategy: get a guy by making fun of his girlfriend's femininity and being a catty bitch. Something tells me it didn't work.

That is silly, though. What's "feminist" about not being able to make a decent meal for yourself?

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

Yes, shockingly, when what she said got back to my boyfriend, it failed to cause him to see the light and dump me.

[urbantravels.livejournal.com]

Aside from the hideous sexism and the promotion of an artifical food that turned out to be deadly... the thing that's really blowing my mind is the company saying how happy they are with the success of their product because it allows them to offer their employees "guaranteed employment, profit sharing and a pension plan."

Imagine a company today touting that in an ad for a consumer product. COMMIES!