These Controversial Vintage Ads Show How Women Were Viewed Before the Millennium

#24: Animals Belong in a Cage

It is no secret that for a long time, women were and even sometimes still are the property of men. These days, this idea that women are the property of anyone but themselves is harder to come by. Sure, there are still those people that think this way and cultures that permit this thinking, but overall it is no longer tolerated.

We can’t imagine what would happen if an advertisement like this came out today… The woman portrayed in the ad is literally in a cage, as if she is some sort of animal or prize for this male hunter. Is this concept meant to be appealing to women? These kinds of ads are responsible for perpetuating the bad treatment of women at the hands of men.