Comments on: "Free For Chubbies"

By: Meryt Bast

Meryt Bast — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:19:38 +0000

Well, at least in those days, plus-size clothing didn’t cost more.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:34:20 +0000

LOVED the link, hilarious — and the captions especially, very funny. Thanks for posting it!

By: Jenni

Jenni — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:08:02 +0000

The lysol one is really frightening to me, because it seems targeted at women who were afraid that their bodies smelled, but were ashamed to buy a “femimine” product. So they could just use lysol and no one would know, since they might have already had it around the house. I guess people might know once their pine fresh insides rotted out, but until then, they could cleanse away their awful womanliness. ::shudder::

By: buffpuff

buffpuff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:38:23 +0000

Lilacsigil, I’m not altogether sure they didn’t mean caustic soda, if they were trying to eliminate the very source of said objectionable odors.

By: buffpuff

buffpuff — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:27 +0000

With regard to the Lysol douche, upon enlarging the ad, I was further alarmed upon reading, “the very source of objectionable odors is eliminated.”

I’ll just bet it is. *crosses legs tightly*

By: Bree

Bree — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:07:58 +0000

Some of the artwork on those ads are pretty good, with the Pears baby in particular. It would make a great poster for a horror/disaster movie. The Pitney Bowes ad, despite its tacky and offensive headline, is hysterical, because of the woman’s “screw you asshole” expression. And I’ve had a Pitney Bowes meter in my office too. They’re not worth the price they charge. I got rid of it and just went back to good old stamps.

By: Godless Heathen

Godless Heathen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:09:17 +0000

I have to say, the Chase & Sandborn Spanking and A Girl Around The House ads were the worst for me. The Love’s Baby Soft thing is an update of the same crap they did in the 70′s with a grown woman dressed up like a little girl. Most of the ads that we find so offensive from bygone days have really just been repackaged and retooled to carry the same destructive messages today. When we call companies out on it, they blame the ad firms they use, people dismiss the ads as being isolated instances instead of a decades long assault on our common culture, and we go around again for another era. The new favorite tactic is claiming that ads which air in foreign markets are somehow off limits to criticism, as if destroying the self esteem of non American or non Western women was somehow OK. (Example: Bacardi and Burger King’s latest piles of excrement.)

By: Trabb's Boy

Trabb's Boy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:56:48 +0000

Oh my god, I can’t believe ads from my living memory are “vintage”! I’ve never felt so old in all my life!

The Love’s Baby Soft — I thought she was soooooooo beautiful! And sophisticated! Never for a second looked like pedophilia to me at the time. And the Hathaway shirt guy with the eye patch was around forever, though not always with an adorable baby tiger. He was debonair! Mysterious!

Come on people, the seventies was about more than birthin’ you all! (wanders off grumbling to listen to her old Chicago albums)

By: The Bald Soprano

The Bald Soprano — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:33:17 +0000

RandomQuorum: That’d be baking soda, not the drink.

And the tiger/eyepatch ad is selling the shirt he’s wearing.

By: lilacsigil

lilacsigil — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:27:48 +0000

My mum works for a nursing organisation and has that lysol ad up on her bulletin board. She says all the older nurses flinch (they used to use it to disinfect wards) and the younger nurses just look confused.