…and I might add that I do realize it is often difficult to talk about an issue without stating something that might be a problem. Dirty dishes and getting tired of washing them does lead to the sales of automatic dish washers and housekeepers. I much rather be sold household amenities than Silva Thins, Salems, Kools or Marlboros.
Even in medical journals, ads for tranquilizers showed depressed housewives standing next to piles of dirty dishes and promised to get them back to work. As for women’s magazines, they seemed to have few guidelines; at least none that excluded even the ads for the fraudulent breast-enlargement or thigh-thinning products for which their back pages were famous.
Steinem, Gloria (2012-05-15). Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender (p. 134). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
