{"id":853,"date":"2008-05-13T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/13\/keep-your-wife-safe-with-goodyear-tires\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:06:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:06:58","slug":"keep-your-wife-safe-with-goodyear-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/13\/keep-your-wife-safe-with-goodyear-tires\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow!  Women Are Terrible Drivers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily sent us this classic Goodyear tire ad. The ad starts out talking about mileage and showing men, but then moves to a segment where a woman is driving and there&#8217;s scary music and we&#8217;re to presume that she&#8217;s maybe being chased or is in danger&#8211;and you want to be sure your wife has good tires so she can get away.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/td6m3OhO5zE&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/td6m3OhO5zE&amp;hl=en\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NEW! <\/strong><\/span>This ad for the VW Bug also plays on the idea that women are terrible drivers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10002\" title=\"3637998385_73ea88ef64_o\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/3637998385_73ea88ef64_o.jpg\" alt=\"3637998385_73ea88ef64_o\" width=\"624\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/3637998385_73ea88ef64_o.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/3637998385_73ea88ef64_o-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things.<\/p>\n<p>If your wife hits something in a Volkswagen, it doesn&#8217;t hurt you very much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She can jab the hood. Graze the door. Or bump off the bumper.<\/p>\n<p>It may make you furious, but it won&#8217;t make you poor.<\/p>\n<p>So when your wife goes window-shopping in a Volkswagen, don&#8217;t worry.<\/p>\n<p>You can conveniently replace anything she uses to stop the car.<\/p>\n<p>Even the brakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily sent us this classic Goodyear tire ad. The ad starts out talking about mileage and showing men, but then moves to a segment where a woman is driving and there&#8217;s scary music and we&#8217;re to presume that she&#8217;s maybe being chased or is in danger&#8211;and you want to be sure your wife has good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2098,23703,283,221,23705],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-marketing","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-cars","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10001,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}