Marketers had a message for the housewives of the 1950s: they weren’t doing a good enough job at home. Their husbands had to resort to going elsewhere for it. Why, even the girls at the office could do it much better.

What is “it?” Making coffee, of course.

Folger’s Misogynistic Megamix! [Funnny or Die] (via Daily Fork)

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