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Title: 26 Shockingly Offensive Vintage Ads That Would Never Fly
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URL Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/vintage-sexist-and-racist-ads-2011-6
Published: Jun 15, 2011
Author: Business Insider
Post Date: 2011-06-15 11:21:41 by christine
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Views: 251
Comments: 15
It's true that modern-day ads objectify women, but there's no way companies could get away with what they just did a half-century ago. In the Pre-Civil Rights era, major brands like Kellogg's featured sexist slogans, like "The Harder A Wife Works, The Cuter She Looks." Other companies promoted pseudoscience that we now know to be utter bunk. 7-Up told moms to add the soda to their babies' milk. Camel cigarettes was marketed as "the doctor's favorite brand." It makes you wonder how many of today's ads will shock our grandkids' generation. Click here to see the ads > Read more: www.businessinsider.com/v...-ads-2011-6#ixzz1PMGavvyh 
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#4. To: christine (#0)
Here's one that never fails to piss off my wife: "Thinking causes wrinkles."
LOL can you believe how far PC'ed we've become? look at this one:
today, this one would have 4 black/latinos in the Oxfords and a bumbling redneck white man in overalls. ;)
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