Sexy Legs and Sexy Nix: Commercial from 1981
Sat, 23/06/2007 - 11:35am — arleeshar
Sometimes I like to sit back and marvel at how far we’ve come. Then I realise that it’s mainly a function of capitalism realising that tailoring marketing of womens products to women, rather than to men, is actually much more profitable in an environment where women have (in principle) equal pay. Of course, in 1981, the equal pay decision was only six years old, so there was alot of this stuff still around:
The priest at the end of the clip, HE IS MY FAVOURITE.
Mark wrote:
When I was a kid in England, in the above-mentioned 1980s, there was a TV show called Carrott’s Commercial Breakdown, hosted by West Midlands comedian Jasper Carrott, which showed adverts from around the world for yuks. The show always heavily featured Australian ads which, even contemporaneously, we could never quite believe were real.
Myth wrote:
Didnt they have it good back than?
arleeshar wrote:
No, Patrick. No, “they” didn’t.
Mark wrote:
If he means sexually predatory priests, well yes. If he means women – well, this ad says that women should take sexual oppression with a stupid giggle, but then what the hell do today’s ads say? Rather than giggling stupidly, women today are supposed to be aggressive participants in their own sexual oppression. So maybe Patrick’s right, if for the wrong reasons.
Myth wrote:
Oh come on, it was hilarious for all the right reasons, and as for the comment about Australian adds, pommy, have a look through some of the adds linked to it, and you will see adds just as bad in Britain.
amphibious wrote:
Bad enough but it was a quarter century ago. One that still riles me when I see something similar is an ad. for rental cars (Hertz? Avis?).
A line of cars, driver/blokes all sweltering as they wait in the queue. A statuesque (not a waif - quite normal build)woman strides down the line to the first car.
The blokes look interested but, when she reaches the lead car and opens the door (no idea why it was holding up traffic, gone for a pee?), the aircon blasts out and up flies her skirt, a’la 1950s M Monroe. The blokes all start hooning and whooping out of their windows, tongues hanging loose.
What does she do? Get in? Shut the door and give them a stern look?
No, she stands there, dress & petticoats (when did young women last wear layers of petticoats?) wafting around her shouldlers looking…fetching…passive…helpless.
At that was barely ten years ago.
EvilPundit wrote:
Damn straight.
Women should never look sexy. Full-body burkhas are the answer.
I can see why lefties like radical Islam so much.
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