This is a little unrelated, but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
Article: How Sexist Marketing Sold America on the Automatic Transmission [Jezebel]
There is a gallery of 1950s advertising attempting to sell automatic transmission cars, mostly based on exclaiming that women are too dainty to use a manual transmission, so why not buy them this newfangled automatic!? This was during an age where car manufacturers were adding every automatic component to automobiles they could fathom, so an automatic transmission was a likely continuation of that. However, gender roles in the 1950s purported that men made the purchases for their families and did so rationally and non-frivolously, and women were given to ease of use and time saving products, so advertising for automobiles with automatic transmission makes sense when directed toward women.
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