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"Good news for thousands of girls who have no sex appeal" - Ironized yeast (i.ibb.co)

submitted 2 months ago by letme_meowmeow@sh.itjust.works to c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this deepens my impression that all advertising should be burned in a fire.

I know that's impractical, but the damage it does to society is hard to stomach.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least this stuff is encouraging girls to try and attain a healthy weight, unlike today’s tits on a stick advertising…

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I dunno. For some people, a healthy weight is "skinny". For others, it's "voluptuous". Trying too hard to attain an "unnatural" weight is unhealthy, no matter which "direction" you're trying in.

Ads like this one blanket all women as needing a certain amount of "tits", otherwise men wouldn't be interested in them. Without getting into how bad it is to have women care about their weight because of what some men will think instead of for their own health's sake - lesbians see ads also and should also care about their health despite not caring one bit how attractive they might be to men.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This ad was post-depression, where getting enough to eat while growing up was a huge problem.

Edit: not to say the advertisers weren't playing on insecurities That's SOP for advertising.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I don’t disagree with you at all. My comment was intended to be more tongue in cheek…

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fellas on the beach, you ain't no great shakes yourselves. You got no nipples!

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

desperately searching for nipple regrowth powders on the darkweb

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is just nutritional yeast, isn't it? It's healthy and tastes good... This is the first time I've heard about it being used as weight-gain powder, though.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

I shudder to imagine how much nutritional yeast you'd need to consume to gain weight..

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Damn and here I was thinking maybe you editorialized the title, but nope, they really printed that

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If everyone with no sex appeal stopped having sex for a hundred years, everyone would have sex appeal afterwards.

Turns out the real issue to cure is loneliness. What kind of fucked up food do I gotta ingest for that?

Edit: My statement only makes sense with a singular perspective of course. People don't really agree on what's good looking.

[–] _lilith@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

pizza

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can anyone get me a pizza?

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No No, you must bring the pizza to the opposite sex! You hold up the pizza box like a lure and reel them in!

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I prefer regular sex.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Ironized yeast... there is ALWAYS some miracle shortcut scam, isn't there, preying on insecurities and anxieties, leaning on them. This is one I'd never seen before.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

We should bring back the word "vamoose".