This Labor Day, I was thinking about the bayonets Cleveland sent to Chicago and the soldiers Eisenhower sent to Little Rock — but also the quieter conscription that never ended: women still doing more than twice as much unpaid labor as men.
OMFG! Like Linda says below these are terrifying. Although I do vaguely remembering the Dacron/Leggs ad in magazines and variations of the Van Huesen ad. I can remember being confused by these violent disrespectful images seemingly being acceptable. (Frankly, it took years before I realized I wasn't a weirdo and that my thoughts were rational but the shit I couldn't process was wrong.) I'll be sharing with my daughter as per usual in our ongoing discussion about misogyny.
Once in grad school, I took a seminar on the history of American advertising. One of the books that we read was called Food is Love. And it focused heavily on this aspect of American advertising.
JFC this terrified me. I thought we had escaped the abject hatred that underlies these ads, only to hear its echoes again today. Fortunately I have a husband who more than shares the workload, but then we have no kids, which may make all the difference.
OMFG! Like Linda says below these are terrifying. Although I do vaguely remembering the Dacron/Leggs ad in magazines and variations of the Van Huesen ad. I can remember being confused by these violent disrespectful images seemingly being acceptable. (Frankly, it took years before I realized I wasn't a weirdo and that my thoughts were rational but the shit I couldn't process was wrong.) I'll be sharing with my daughter as per usual in our ongoing discussion about misogyny.
Once in grad school, I took a seminar on the history of American advertising. One of the books that we read was called Food is Love. And it focused heavily on this aspect of American advertising.
JFC this terrified me. I thought we had escaped the abject hatred that underlies these ads, only to hear its echoes again today. Fortunately I have a husband who more than shares the workload, but then we have no kids, which may make all the difference.