This one's for the ladies...

[cyrano]

Girls, if you need to drive those big scary cars like your husbands do, just remember what Goodyear told us years ago.
Polyglas means more than good mileage. It also means your delicate feminine brains won't be overwhelmed by the stress of road signs, parts of your own car, sudden camera zooms and a tense emphatic soundtrack; we think the odds are pretty good you won't crash and kill somebody if your husband for some reason allows you to drive. (Which, if he didn't have a gigantic brain tumor, he'd have the sense to forbid. Girls driving. Bah! Next they'll want to *vote*.)

Comments

[mostuff.livejournal.com]

Oh no! The signs! The lights! Pedestrians! I can't take it!!!!!!!!

[antayla.livejournal.com]

"A name so different, it's registered" HAH HAH. And I don't know why it's so damn funny.

I dunno, I suppose men bought all the tires those days. Women just didn't have time in between doing the laundry and making dinner to go pick them up.

[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

Good grief.

Did you see this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVh39A9PhE&feature=related

[evilmagnus]

Those were simpler times. When simple men said simple things.

Seriously, I expected the wife to be attacked by ninjas at any moment.

[evilmagnus]

Oh, and this is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl0pVJr4uKY&NR=1

KNOW YOUR LIMITS!

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Damn those sudden camera zooms and emphatic soundtracks. They always overload my poor feminine brain and cause me to re-enact scenes from Grand Theft Auto out of pure anger. ;)

On the subject of progress, have you ever read Gloria Steinem's excellent essay Sex, Lies & Advertising? It's a really quite penetrative look at the seamier underside of the ad industry, and why advertisements were so blatantly sexist until just recently. But on the other hand, it's also a nice measure of how far we've come - somewhere along the line, those ad executives suddenly realized exactly how much money women were spending, and started diving in to get a piece of it. Hooray for capitalism!