These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Women Are Objects

Women! They're things. Or stuff. Wait, no, they're people... but not until the '90s. Before then, your girlfriend was a mop, or a beer, or a pack of cigarettes.

Fashion Week

Does anyone have a clue what this naked woman holding a heavy stack of books has to do with stockings? Do stockings... make you smarter? Is it because they squeeze the blood from your legs back up to your brain?

The More You Know

The Netherlands has the tallest population.
In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
The first time Reddit was mentioned in the New York Times, it was described as "foolish collectivism" that "grinds away the Web's edges and saps it of its humanity".
Elvis only won 3 Grammys.

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