21st November 2009 / Comments (9)

10 Most Bizarre Sexist Adverts

Wow. Although I'm very happy bringing you the best/worst of advertising from my own collection, the Times have displayed a collection of images from blogs who are focusing on outrageously sexist adverts. My favourite is the Lysol advert, which made me cover my lady parts in horror, especially when the ad talked about alternative 'remedies', like salt. Salt?! Enjoy, gentle readers...

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"Appealing daintiness is assured"

Is horror one of the alternative remedies then Tanya?

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By Dave
November 23, 2009 @ 12:55 pm / #

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Yes. Yes it is.

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By Tanya Jones
November 23, 2009 @ 3:19 pm / #

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There are fairly sexist adverts around still. They pretend to be tongue-in-cheek and we all find them more or less funny, but they still sell the stuff not with humour but with macho clichés (I'm thinking of popular deodorant adverts, softdrinks, ...) - what will the people of 2060 think of us?

By TheLeen
November 23, 2009 @ 3:38 pm / #

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I've always felt uneasy about the Lynx adverts: http://www.lynxeffect.com/#/lynx_bullet.aspx which just seems like the old-fashioned 'pheromone spray' ones. It's interesting that older deodorant adverts aimed at women suggest that they will be more attractive to men if they use the product, because modern ones don't take that approach. The only other way deodorant is sold to men is the suggestion that they'll be able to play sport without stinking, of course, and both approaches seem to have been used without any real changes for at least 30 years or so...

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By Tanya Jones
November 23, 2009 @ 3:56 pm / #

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I had to cringe at the Lysol ad. Isn't Lysol to clean the house with?

By Morgy
November 27, 2009 @ 10:48 am / #

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From the sounds of it: yes.

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By Tanya Jones
November 27, 2009 @ 3:21 pm / #

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We used to have Lysol in the US. We cleaned the floor with it and it had a pine fresh scent. Lovely if it smelled like that your lady bits would spell like a pine forest.

By Morgy
November 30, 2009 @ 1:54 pm / #

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Maybe there were men out there who really did expect a pine-fresh scent...

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By Tanya Jones
November 30, 2009 @ 5:26 pm / #

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"blow in her face and she'll follow you anywhere"

"put some fun between your legs"

FILTH!

By Sefi
December 11, 2009 @ 12:48 pm / #

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