10 Retro Ads That Made Women Look Like Complete Idiots

Some Mad Men were very, very Bad Men.

Charles Antell's Formula 9 shampoo, 1952

Charles Antell's Formula 9 shampoo, 1952

Three methods of suicide!
Sweetheart, you better put that small caliber girlie gun in your mouth, to make sure. Or, just pick up some new shampoo.
A-mazing.

Electrolux, 1932

Electrolux, 1932

Bodiless Horsewoman Refuses to Buy Electrolux Fridge.
In Mrs. Secretariat's defense, the gas refrigerator never did take off.

Anacin, 1969

Anacin, 1969

Copy: "having to do the same dull work day after day—is a mild form of torture. This can bring on...what is now known as (DUN DUN DUN) 'housewife headache'." Nice Photoshoppy headache-y collage work!
Stupid bored, emotionally-fatigued HOUSEWIFE.

Volkswagen, 1964

Volkswagen, 1964

"Sooner or later..."
"Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things...She can jab the hood. Graze the door. Or bump the bumper..."
Give me the keys and go vacuum, Mrs. McCrash.


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