40 Vintage Advertisements That Are Seriously Stuck in the Past

#24: This Nice Little Fist…

For a long time, women have been made into nice, sweet, and adaptive characters to fit into the male narrative. From advertisements to real life, women were continuously used as pawns to play a part in an elaborate plan to keep men happy.

This airplane company advertisement implies that if men were to fly this airline worldwide, they would be serviced by a lovely, blonde, compliant air hostess. The assumptions in this advertisement are beyond words; the idea that sexuality sells definitely rears its head. The air hostesses of this airline should not have been viewed as some sort of service to men…