Feminist Graffiti From the 1970's (one image)

[ismnotwasm]

http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/04/18/feminist-graffiti-from-the-1970s/

[BlueJazz]

1. I love it!

[Eleanors38]

2. Good one.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. K&R n/t

[eridani]

4. I remember one from the LA Women's Building restroom in the 70s

Above "An army of lovers shall not fail!"

Below it "An army of lovers can't even get the damn newsletter out on time"

[ismnotwasm]

5. LOL!

[Hissyspit]

6. 1979 - Photograher Jill Posener:

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-04-05/features/8701260658_1_gorilla-masks-art-institute-galleries/2

I remember seeing it reproduced around that time or maybe in the early 1980s.

In 1979 Jill Posener snapped a picture of a billboard she chanced upon during a daily walk in London. The ad was for a Fiat car, the message: ``If this car were a lady, it would get its bottom pinched.`` Spray-painted underneath: ``If this car was a woman, it would run you down.``

The photo quickly gained attention, reproduced on postcards sold at an English bookstore. Since that day, Posener has been exploring the streets of England and Australia, photographing billboards, walls, street signs, brick gates and sidewalks scrawled with feminist messages.

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Posener, 33, says the graffiti she first saw on that Fiat billboard "capsulated for me what feminism was . . . public, immediate and funny. It showed that feminism didn`t have to be humorless."

[Puzzler]

7. Egads! ... what an appalling old ad.

Great comeback.