Not so far in the past.... advertisements...

[boston bean]

[annabanana]

1. "Runnin' to the shelter of her Mother's Little Helper". . . . .n/t

[Voice for Peace]

2. rec

that's quite a collection, seeing them all together like that is scary. My mother was one of those women, anxious and depressed and feeling suicidal because she thought she should be happy just being a wife and mother, ironing all day. The booming pharma industry got lots of business from her.

[boston bean]

5. many of them are directed toward the husband

here's how to help your wife, stop nagging, stop calling, be less neurotic, clean the house, not clean the house, take care of the children, take care of her man.

[sarge43]

3. Yup, but you can go to jail for doing a little weed. n/t

[boston bean]

4. That's what you've taken away from this?

please expound.

[sarge43]

8. Yeah that's what I took away.

The women are borderline loony tunes message was obvious. "They're wimmins; they're nuts, shut 'em up." I grew up in that era; I remember some of those ads very well and the attitude they were based on. One of the reasons I am a feminist.

Sorry if I choose to comment on the larger issue of the hypocrisy of giving routinely meds that potentially can harm, even kill people, yet jail them for a drug that is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.

As long as I'm off topic, the other thing I took away is the problem this society is still dealing with -- problems can solved by treating the symptom, not the cause.

[boston bean]

12. I'm think marijuana should be legalized

but wouldn't that also be treating the sympton not the cause?

I get what you are trying to say, but I think it's probably not the type of conversation I expected. But all is good.

My thoughts were more along the line of how these ads were geared toward men to keep women happy housewives.

[sarge43]

13. No argument what those drugs were meant to do.

Those ads weren't subtle.

I don't think everyone who does some weed once in awhile necessarily has profound psychological problems. Even if they did, arresting and jailing them isn't the solution.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. And to make profits for big pharma.

Which is another reason they don't want to legalize pot.

[sarge43]

26. That, most of all. n/t

[enough]

6. Fantastic collection, in so many ways. (nt)

[Seedersandleechers]

7. Hey, I was just a kid

but I use to love to sample my mom's wares in the the medicine cabinet.

[mistertrickster]

9. Good research. Thank you. nt

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Is there any wonder that Americans (both

women and men) are widely and severely addicted to prescription pain killers today?

This kind of legal drug-pushing is considered a public health hazard and prohibited as such in the European Union.

Edit: Thanks for the research, boston bean!

[CBHagman]

11. Thanks for posting.

I remember the era but never was exposed to this array of advertisements. Many years ago I was poking around a medical library at the university where I was a student and stumbled on a passage in one of the books. Theme: Women are passive and masochistic because they put up with nine months of pregnancy.

That said, we still have too many people, especially politicians, who seem awfully comfortable with that sort of mindset.

[caraher]

14. I'd like to ban all drug advertising

The whole for-profit nature of healthcare delivery is a huge problem and leads to truly twisted decision making

[Mira]

15. What a collection! I remember it well -

and that's why I joined the first consciousness raising group in my town in about 1968.
The memories are overwhelming, and make me realize that we actually have come a long way in spite of it all.

[seabeyond]

16. the man is there to help the little woman. the woman is the cause of the mans problem

in the one and only ad about man.

i think i remember a couple of those. but not many. growing up, my life did not represent any of that. i remember my mom was out on the golf course around dinner time. some man from another hole yelled at her she should be cooking dinner for her hubby. she flipped him off. she couldnt see that far, so she didnt know who she was flipping off, but didnt matter to her.

[Little Star]

22. You gave me a chuckle. My mom would always tell people...

"Yep. He's the head of the house, but I'm the neck that turns the head". She could be quite the sassy one. lol

[seabeyond]

23. oh, that is so funny, lol.

i will have to remember to say that one (i never remember cute sayings) to my FIL when he mouths off. not IF, but surely a when.

[teewrex]

17. And this is what the right wing wants to return to

[lunasun]

18. Zombie Stepford wives were the desire

Behave shut up sit down and get back in the kitchen until I call you from the bedroom
and please be smiling and looking pretty after cleaning cooking and childcare all day darn it!

Thioridazine????? WTF

[redqueen]

19. More here:

http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/fem.html (lots of other god ones on that site too)

There are so many more around the net, just google sexist drug ads. It's mildly astounding (if you haven't already started noticing how sexist the majoirty of ads are anyway).



It's nice that we no longer have this particular kind of ad around anymore.

Now if only they'd stop with the ads for crap like drugs intended give us prettier eyelashes. And the ones where women are treated like sex objects.

[lunasun]

20. Thanks My fav is 1975- When women outlive their ovaries-( for estrogen )

darn why do those women do that -outlive their ovaries- ?????

[MuseRider]

21. Drugs were the choice.

Like burkas in a way. Drug em and they will keep you happy, take care of your life because we all know that is the only thing they are good for.

Control.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. Bennies in the morning, Reds to go to bed.

Or as I call it, the Lenny Bruce diet.