On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > That's tame compared to some of the marketing literature and
> > advertisements I've seen from the 1960s and 1970s. The basic message
> > could have been interpreted as, "this gorgeous woman loves this computer,
> > and so by extension she will love you too if you buy it", or, "woman make
> > good computer ornaments".
>
> You're kidding! That isn't true?
Are you being facetious?
At any rate, no, in this rare case I am not kidding. The brochures and
ads from the 1960s and 1970s were amazingly mysoginistic. If the editors
of FHM were alive back then, they'd be doing computer industry ads.
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