BREAKDOWN! is a new semi-regular bullshit clickbait copyranter feature where I "break down" why popular new ads that…

It was the salad baby-booming post-WWII days of this great country, when men were men and women were wives. Obedient…

SCENE: Offices of London ad agency Subliminal, Persuader, & Manipulate, 1957.

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"Homosexual acts are acts of envy." — W.H. Auden

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Dear Gentlemen of the GOP:

This is my story, one like many other women's stories. It is the story of what happened to me — and what happened to…