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

For the longest time, women have been made into these 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. News flash, women don’t exist in order to make men happy…

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