And once again, some old commercials for your viewing.
It's incredible to me that everyone just... watched this shit.
I remember watching some of these myself. Didn't think there was anything strange or wrong about them, either.
Now I feel jussssttt a little awkward.
Except for the commercial that shows at 5:50.
That's horrendous and I'm horrified that someone thought it was a good idea.
One of my friends from school got that whole collection for Christmas and we were jealous.
Saturday, August 01, 2026
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These are like SNL skits! And with felons too. Wow.
ReplyDeleteIt bugs me that I remember some of these and I never thought anything was weird. Just... meh, another day.
DeleteThose are insane! Ball Buster?! And I don’t remember so much mockery of native Americans 🙁
ReplyDeleteWe didn't know how horrible that stuff was. One of the high schools I attended had 'Indians' as the mascot. They changed it many years ago, and there are STILL people who aren't happy about it.
DeleteI have a very vague memory of the Ball Buster game. Like maybe saw the commercial once?
I must say that I don't remember commercials like this (I was born in 1960 so I was old enough to watch and understand TV in the 1970s). Obviously they picked out the worst examples. Still, these did exist and got broadcast.
ReplyDeleteThe total normalization of smoking, to the extent of having ads for cigars and cigarettes on TV, is what seems weirdest now. But consider how our own time similarly normalizes overweight and obesity, which cause health problems similar in variety and severity to what smoking did half a century ago. And smoking was always a minority habit, while today the majority of Americans are overweight enough to statistically risk a shorter life span. That's one thing that people fifty or sixty years in the future will probably find bizarre about our time.
And yes, the commercial infantilizing an adult woman and treating it as sexy is gross and disturbing. Well, we know from current events that pedos are more pervasive in the TV and film industry (and in politics) than we used to think. Maybe that's always been true; maybe they've long been trying to normalize it.
I was born in 1960, also.
DeleteEric and I were talking about the smoking commercials. The one we both remembered first was because of a grammatical error, "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" Accompanied by a woman with a black eye. Misogyny, smoking, domestic violence.. what's not to love.
And Benson and Hedges 100. And 101. "A silly millimeter longer."
My mom was told by her OB when she was pregnant to smoke instead of eat so she 'wouldn't get too fat'.
These are all new to me, fortunately! 😕
ReplyDeleteI'm just struck by how it was all just accepted. None of it was remarkable at all.
DeleteBeing of an age that put me into adulthood at this time I lived it. Cat calling was a common male pass-time. Mark has a brother who called me a ball buster. So I busted his balls.This is PTSD for me.
ReplyDeleteSounds like he needed his balls busted. What a dick.
DeleteYeah, I was cat called at LOT. Also told I needed to smile more. Comments about my different body parts were normal, too.
My hubby works with a bunch of guys that he calls pigs. They really are crude and gross with their comments about women. He tells them, but they don't give a shit.
Oh my goodness, lol
ReplyDeleteThese are all so bad.
I've never even heard of Ballbuster. LOL
Love's Baby Soft..."Because innocence is sexier than you think" wtf omg That was terrible.
My neighbor/crappy friend from 5th grade until I moved away in high school had all the Love's baby soft stuff. She even tried looking like a little girl, all wide-eyed and little pink shirts etc. I was ENVIOUS because she got all those products and I wanted them, too. Now I am disgusted by it and glad I didn't get them.
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