SEXIST ADS YOU WON’T BELIEVE EXISTED

Eden Kagwiria Nyaga
PERIOD
Published in
2 min readAug 18, 2018

In our current society which can be deemed in simple terms as ‘woke,’ certain derogatory, sexist, and even racist comments or actions cannot simply be ignored and discarded.

Some suggest that our society is too bent on every utterance, action, or sign of disrespect that it may throw things way out of proportion.

Below are sexist ads you won’t believe existed in the 1940s to the 1970s.

Photo: Team Jimmy Joe
Photo: Team Jimmy Joe
Photo: Retrospace

However, recently some of these ads were recreated by Eli Rezkallah; a 31-year-old artist/photographer in a photo series called ‘In a Parallel Universe’ to display a reverse in the gender roles.

Hope you enjoy the spin-off if the preceding photos.

Photo: Eli Rezkallah
Photo: Eli Rezkallah
Photo: Eli Rezkallah
Photo: Eli Rezkallah

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