'Keep her where she belongs...': The sexist Sixties adverts that would provoke fury today as women speak out against sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal (7 Pics)

It was a time when sexist attitudes were perfectly acceptable. 
These are some of the appalling adverts for household names that were common place in the Sixties - and they would surely cause howls of protest if they were released today.
They have re-emerged online as millions of women around the world come forward to speak out against sexual harassment following the Harvey Weinstein scandal.


Trampled: This advert for Mr Leggs trousers claims that a woman will submit to man's desires if he wears the right pants. It reads: 'Though she was a tiger lady, our hero didn't have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her'


Demeaning: This advert for Van Heusen ties, left, boasts that their manly patterns 'will tell her it's a man's world... and make her so happy it is'. 


Meanwhile Lipton claims that a poor tea-making skills are grounds for a divorce, right


Brains or beauty? Palmolive soap promised their product would give women skin 'more precious than a personality


Downtrodden: The advertising profession, centred on Madison Avenue, New York in the 1960s was a male-dominated profession which produced adverts like this for female consumers

A load of hot air: This advert from 1969 claimed women enjoy having smoke blown into their faces and doing so will increase a man's attractiveness 

This advert plays on the old trope that a woman's place is in the home and not on a mountain
'Keep her where she belongs...': The sexist Sixties adverts that would provoke fury today as women speak out against sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal (7 Pics) 'Keep her where she belongs...': The sexist Sixties adverts that would provoke fury today as women speak out against sexual harassment after Weinstein scandal (7 Pics) Reviewed by Your Destination on October 17, 2017 Rating: 5

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