• LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    “Hey, boss, that model you’ve been assaulting and promised the cigarette ad to… well… you left quite a mark…”

    “Hold on, I’ve an idea…”

    “Brilliant, boss.”

    They could have set this up to make her look empowered and strong but they went with the abused, hiding in a shawl look.

    • FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 days ago

      They could have set this up to make her look empowered and strong but they went with the abused, hiding in a shawl look

      My thoughts too. A picture of two boxers would be more appropriate. I get that women sell and it wasn’t progressive enough to have a female fighter in the art, but I don’t get “triumphant fighter” from the model here, and that’s obvs what the tagline suggests.

      Tareyton’s Cigarettes: the breakfast of champions

    • Bonus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      This was a bizarre running campaign for decades. They’d rather fight…

      There were ones with men too but yeah, this has really aged out.

  • Bonus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    These are sort of satirized in Idiocracy. (I could have read any comment here to realize how redundant my comment is before I made it.)

      • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        4 days ago

        Maybe they’ll have an argument between themselves as the boss is leaving their home after having dinner, and Samantha will twitch him a black eye as he’s leaving for work the next morning, leading the boss to think Samantha socked him one, and Darren can see how funny that is.