Advertising was much more....stupid back in the day.

Moving this video to thepinky's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Surely the woman's first reaction should have been 'Then make your own damn coffee!'

I know that there's a lot more to be done against sexism, but these ads do show us how far we've come...

I like the "doesn't like MY coffee". I gotta try that with my wife... Honey YOUR coffee sucks!

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by deathcow.

gee, this sift is delicious, do ya know that?

It's fresh perked! That's the problem with all the coffee during that time. Percolators make the WORST coffee.

I'm going to play the devil's advocate here.
If she doesn't have to earn any money she might as well make some good coffee. She's free to divorce the "sexist" and get a job. Social norms are easy enough to break if you don't care what the fuck people think about it. If she's in a prison, it's a prison in her mind.

[[Edit: wow, my lowest rated comment ever! Devil's advocate taken way too seriously!]]

Mary is wicked sexy.

I admire her tenacity - she really hung in there and got that coffee right! I would have slit my wrists at the first sign of displeasure.

and ^ back to your cave, Jwray...you can pick your own lice.

You understood nothing of the culture back then, Jwray. Those women were doing exactly what was expected of them.

If you read the first sentence of my post, you realize it's "just for the sake of argument", i.e. i'm being facetious.

If the coffee tastes awful anybody drinking it should say so, regardless of who made it. And yes, that new dress does make you look fat.

And by the way, as a housewife, she's voluntarily entered into a symbiotic relationship in which the woman cooks/cleans and the man makes money 9 to 5. If there are kids around her job is harder, but otherwise her job is probably easier. If we assume they're empty nesters, it's the least she could do to make coffee that doesn't make you want to spit it out.

And while we're on the subject of sexism, modern makeup and clothes advertizements geared toward selling a phony frivolous facade are just as bad. Smart women know they don't have to smear poisonous chemicals all over their face to get people to like them.

How was that sexist?

"Uses Folger's" is at the top of the list of qualities I want in a spouse.