PSA - The Trouble With Women
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- A "teaching" film from the 1950's :)
Those terrible, gum chewing, family oriented women, how dare they?
Or maybe, just maybe, the self absorbed supervisor the real trouble? hmmmmmmm :D
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Reminder: This may seem old-fashioned horrible, but at the time, it was REALLY PROGRESSIVE.
Yea same thing with song of the south and aunt jemima. It was SUPER PROGRESSIVE and helped the nations o much, but is now seen as “racist”, just like this does now
@@Zack-bl2gg matter of perspective i guess
@@joeygreen8091 nah, Aunt Jemima was created by a black comedian and played by a black woman specifically to bring black faces into normal life.
And song of the south promoted a black role model teaching a white kid life lessons, and his dad was a lawyer protecting a black client.
That was pretty progressive, and there still isn’t one thing about it that people can rightfully call racist.
“They make the black people sound uneducated, and give them too much slang”
They WERE uneducated, you would be too if you just got out of slavery. And black people still speak like that today, it’s a community thing.
“They had the black people be all of the servants and slave away in the fields”
What do you think happened to most of the black people after the civil war? Answer: they worked for their old employers doing the same job, and were rather content. They were free now.
@@Zack-bl2gg guess you don’t know about share cropping.
@@aidanlutz8106 yea, I know plenty about share cropping. To say most went to sharecropping is just not true. Many did, many also left, but more just stayed where they were. It was normally the second generation or some more select groups that did sharecropping.
And even with sharecropping, they still worked for the same person.
He really likes men!
But not sexually like you.
I don't like em are you nuts, I love them!
Uh oh! Boys beware!!!!!!
@@tysonprice ew
I daresay he loves them
Placing this video in its historic content, it should be seen as progressive and pro feminist. It was clearly produce as a training film for male managers that hold biases against women in the workplace. You should note that at the end of the video the personnel manager told him that though he thought things were better when there were all men working under him, now with the women in the workforce his productivity was actually up. The video was clearly showing that the problems that Brad had was generated by his intolerant attitude. For example, it was a reasonable request not to be moved after you have your workstation setup. And, though he complained about that women's work space, the video showed a well utilized yet organize space.The other woman had given him a 6 months notice about her departure yet he failed to even note it. Also, he is obviously being shown to be impatient with a woman who had just been put on a piece of equipment that she had never utilized before. The man employee that works under him was obviously shown to be a "Mindless Yes Man" underpinning a lack of creativity often needed in engineering positions. Overall, it should be noted that this being the 1950s and that they are creating a training film about including women in engineering jobs, which were not traditional jobs for many women at the time, shows some real foresight. So no, I don't see this as some kind of lack of progressive thinking from the 1950s but in fact a serious attempt to move us forward within the content of the language and culture at the time.
Thank you for posting this video.
Exactly!
Well said.
Some people are still stuck in this mental rut. Just look at the yahoo news comment section
I guess I didn’t think of it like that, I’m glad to see somebody is thinking outside of the box👍
Thank you so much for sharing! I am writing a paper on how problematic messages in the media influence the representation of gender. And your comment helped me deconstruct this video!
Damn, actually, this is pretty amazing for the timeframe it was made in. Normal PSAs went on about how women had to look desirable for men, and how to cook!
And you know how?
Maybe this PSA proves that PSAs from the fifties were not all about what you describe and maybe were quite progressive for their time.
just bc it was progressive for its time doesnt mean it wasnt still BELOW the bare minimum. Stop praising common decency like its a new age science.
Men had to look desirable as well at least be fit and rich. So both had their demerits.
I love how it also highlights all the difficulties in working with men. Lol
Brad's problem? He hasn't gotten any in a long, long time.
oh yeah!
Your problem, neither have you.
He passed up two chances in the first minute
Brad is an incel.
I was expecting a sexist video. Nope. Just Brad complaining and his upper telling him to quit it
It's pretty cool that actual men from the 50's are watching this video and commenting.
I was born in 1955. My second grade woman teacher in 1962 made my life miserable because she was fired from her bearing inspection job.
That's a whole bunch of homoeroticism right there.
Mickey Bitsko yeah, because Brad didn't like all those women around. It was better before they were here!
Yes yes everything is secretly gay. Gay gay gay all day.
Let’s ask the creators how they feel about this. 🎤💀💀💀
Despite the name, this is actually a video which is pro-women in the workforce. And it puts the onus on the foreman to deal with the situation, not the women. It's actually not particularly "regressive" or "reactionary." It doesn't end with the women being fired or replaced with men or something.
If you put your onus on the foreman today, you'll end up in court. Not to mention on the 6 o'clock news.
its still chauvinistic tho
I used to love this show as a kid. I had the lunchbox!
Omg really? That’s kinda cool!
They had lunchboxes of this? By God's I can't imagine what that must've looked like
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 He might be talking about Mystery Science Theater 3000. They often made fun of Cold War-era informational shorts like this.
Did you grow up in that era???
Brad was fired the next day and they hired a black to replace him.
@Hugh Mongus Hey Hugh, whether he was sarcastic or not, it's time for you to go fuck yerself. Good day sir.
And they replaced the Black with a White woman...lol
Since White females are the biggest benefactors of Affirmative Action....Just had to throw that out there to the ignorant bigots.
The black was replaced with a non-gender specific racially homogonous entity...
@@tc7782 my mom?!
He asked for a man to inspect his ball...bearings, dammit !
First thing that popped into my head . . .
If only these guys could see what women would end up doing with a cell phone pressed to their ear while steering a 7,000 lb SUV with one hand!
Phfft, we can drive 80,000lb rigs full of hazmat while talking on the phone.
Come on, you just need to adjust the roads and vehicles to accommodate their differing ways of driving. You have to try harder.
Sounds like brad is an inexperienced supervisor!
it all started when we let them vote , all down hill after that!
Are you serious? 💀
Not at all. 👍
I do believe the women played Myrtle was the mother of Mike TeeVee from the original Willy Wonka.
I KNEW I recognized her. Brilliant!
Yes that's Nora Denney this was her first role source IMDB
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Yup!
Thank you boss man for knowing we aren’t completely clueless
5:24 "I bet you can....things seem to be adding up here. I've heard of your kind....the, gay...."
We need to set up a GoFundMe account for Myrtle Malloy!
I think she’s dead by now 😂
Well maybe if she made Brad a sandwich things would improve.
Hypnotic Haha! Now that's hilarious! :)
As she should.
Brad sure looks hungry to me.
Exactly what I was thinking!
“Why don’t women love us, we’re nice guys 🥺”
The guys in question:
"They're good workers. Accurate, quick to catch mistakes, and a lot of patience..." And best yet, you can pay them shiat and harass them!
What world do you live in. They never got harassed.
@@frenne_dilley they dont have it super good, but its much better than the 50s
Can't wait for the 2021 version.
" It takes time to break in a relief girl! "
"I asked for a Man" - Well Brad should meet Jimmy from the film I just watched.
3:23 They've moved my desk 4 times already this year and I used to be over by the window and I could see the squirrels and they were married, but then they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and that's not Ok because if they take my stapler, I'll I'll hafta - I'll set the building on fire ...
Off to storage room B!
. . . mysterious fire
LoL
Wow, times have changed!
Yea... We have come a long way... Back then... we did not even lock the door. Now... Families rarely even stay together. Isn't that great?
Ah, don't bullshit me, US in 1920s-1960s had mafia shootouts in the streets, extortion, opium dens, a share of serial killers, cancer causing pesticides, racial segregation and a lotta other crap. You could live really well if you were a part of upper-middle class, which you either had to be born into or spend far more years than today to become part of. Don't even get me started on Germany. Russia had famines, people getting death sentences or going to GULAGs for "treason" if they criticized government in any way, often without any evidence or trial, people wiping their asses with newspapers, becuase there was no toilet paper. Having your apartment cleaned out by a burglar was simply not the worst thing that could happen. Now, families breaking apart? It's always happened, since the dawn of time. Just read some literature classics - different times, same issues. Human relations are far more complicated than just multiplying and earning enough to have food and somewhere to live. 1950s were a short period of time when America was as sky high on the money it made off WW2, which it obviously ran out of in the next 2 decades, as Courteney Love was high on heroin through the 1990s. The thing about nostalgia is that you only remember the good things.
Lets not forget all the racism
No its fking tarded
I'm no expert in marriage but I seem to remember that it required at least two people.
Back then, women usually quit their job to become homemakers, but the men kept working to support the family.
"Brad Bradshaw"? And it's obvious that Betty can't perform more than one knob-job at a time!
"You need a bearing inspector and there isn't a man around" - I hear ya, we've all been there.
while this is just terrible I love the background song lol
Your head is clearly up your ass.
Damn - pretty soon they will give them the vote! Gheeeze.
The hell is wrong with these comments?
Look how well that's worked out...
@@gblargg really well
This is very accurate. Thanks for this. You got the date wrong though should say 2018
40 years ago, even 20, the comment section would've read entirely different.
"What is Brad's Trouble?"...
Brad need to git he bad self some POOOOSAY!!
Ball or shaft bearings?
We have not come a long way.
Women have not changed.
Even WOMEN hate working for other with women.
The truth is that women and men CAN work together is they understand and consider each other's strengths and weaknesses.
Don't speak for women dude. I literally don't know what you're talking about
Brads problem is that he ain't gettin any. And it's their fault.
If that woman would operate that oscilloscope correctly he wouldn't be having trouble!
It might not seem like much but today’s standards but for back then it was hugely progressive. Even if it doesn’t hold up, it helped pave the way.
"uh, joe...can you move?"
"okay, chief".
"uh, myrtle...can you move?" "Yap, yap, yap. Blah, blah, blah."
Yep. pretty much nailed it. And now we have created a monster in the work place. HR was not created because of men. It was created in spite of them.
Where I work we have a bunch of whiny men thanks to hr
Myrtle should have stuck to inspecting pot-roasts.
You could say his issues had no _bearing_ on his employees' gender whatsoever lol
...I know most people watching this can't remember or even relate to this...BUT...there was a time in this country when you needed to Know Your Job, AND, were expected to show up ON TIME, EVERY DAY, and Actually DO YOUR JOB. No internet, no smart phones, no phoney resumes, No Bull Shit. No kidding.
We had a storm at a construction site over the weekend. I was busy, so I told the new hires to pick up the tree branches that were littering the ground everywhere. Five minutes later I noticed them heading for their cars. I stopped them and asked what was going on. They said that they just weren't cut out for that kind of work.
Spurious Effect- Lol. were they women??
Courtney Earnhart- just wait 10-20 years... :>/
I met a man in Boca Raton in 1985 who told an attractive waitress in a local diner that he worked as a crack inspector. She gamely pretended to lift her skirt. What a dame.
What era are you from
these shits are funny as hell
this was completely sensible
I WANT MY 6 MINUETS BACK!
never mind I will only waste them
StraberrYKiler6789 amen
StraberrYKiler6789 shut up and do some dishes
"and don't forget the mayonnaise this time !"
I assume that 2/3 of men in this country still hold to these pre-historic views
The historical context here was the Cold War and the US's efforts to catch up to the Soviet Union, who had welcomed women into the workforce and provided them with equal employment opportunities.
Well now that's interesting- we thought we were getting a hilariously blinkered film in the style of Harry Enfield's parodies- we were wrong.
“Why didn’t you say something”
*I told you 6 months ago*
This PSA is terrible for multiple reasons.
1. It portrays the guy as a sexist, which he is, but he does bring up some legitimate claims that get ignored.
2. One such claims is that they have higher productivity, but some of the women simply were not showing up for work and thus being replaced or made a fuss at all about having to move for the importance of the work.
3. It's more of a mixed message between Brad being sexist vs women not meeting the standards of the workplace rather than Brad's personal standards for women, which conflicts the issue that sexism is bad and personnel niche that alters the workplace is good or that personal standards are good, but productivity of the business is negligible so long as the employees are happy.
4. He shouldn't be angry that she was getting married when he lost track of time since the engagement was 6 months prior, but she should have given her 2 weeks notice so they could have found the time to replace her. It may be an issue of the time where they didn't consider this beforehand, but simply leaving in a rush because the thing you were holding out for can be a big inconvenience for the business also. Typically, they are both wrong.
5. Also, to say that your only available worker is a woman and the trouble between the relationship is "entirely" up the the boss is ridiculous. That relationship revolves around both parties regardless, but it is his job to make the first move and set the tone as the boss. To say whether she is trouble is the fault of him wrong, but at the same time, he shouldn't be too picky with what he can get with what he needs. Basic human instinct, let alone animal instinct is in conflict with his perceptions, but they advice he gets is technically wrong.
Again, this is a pretty bad PSA. I shouldn't be picking apart all these problems when the main subject of the PSA is sexism when there are legitimate business practices being in conflict giving him an actual plausible issue.
"[I'll be leaving] at the end of next week"
Sounds like 2 weeks' notice to me.
Brad is basically bristling at the women because they have different habits than men. (It isn't as if men don't also need to be replaced or get annoyed at changing something they are comfortable with.) Of course it isn't all up to him but he really should try to be more flexible. As Brad's boss, I think telling him that it is entirely up to him is probably what would get him to give half-effort which may be enough.
Maybe he should have told Betty to lose the gum. She seemed to be incapable of chewing it and doing anything else at the same time. And yes, there have been plenty of men who have the same problem.
I think the boss guy went on to work for Disney as a character in the haunted house , a talking statue, and did the Grinch song on the cartoon
Is it me or does all the guys in this film look like escape convicts from ...ALCATRAZ !
I think Brad was worried more about incompetence than if they were women or not.
Yeah the people in the comment section know that they are just triggered because Brad is hyper masculine and they don't like to be put in their place.
He literally said, “but she’s a woman!”
She called him a FOREMAN how ironic.
What did his mom do to him? 😲 He is clear when speaking to his boss. I'm betting he had an overbearing father & a distant mother..
Maybe Brad needs a new job . I got it ! Brad moves to a new job at the Fudge packing company down the street . At that company it's all men .
One week later a MeToo scandal.
Back when America was great the first time
and that, folks, is how subway sandwiches was started...
'What's wrong with her?"
"She's a woman, isn't she?"
Goddamn Myrtle Malloy. Always mucking things up for the rest of us.
Doggone it, Myrtle. You can't be smarter than a man!
sheesh, i learned how to be a bearings inspector at age 6, what is it with these slow learning women?
“This morning I spent an hour and a half, applying grease to my hair!”
Brad wasn't terribly off about some of his complaints.
The irony here is that if you put a woman in Brad's position as the supervisor, she would have the exact same complaints about the female workers!
And after all of that, if Brad starts hitting that, Walter is going to blame him!
Fire Brad already. 😠
They needed this at the time because it was the first time women were working.
I think Myrtle changed her name to Gladys Kravitz
That damn Myrtle Malloy!
hysterical !
TRIGGERED
I like Myrtle, she's no boot-licker. You can tell she hates taking Brad's shit.
She CAN use an O-scope! Amazing. I’m looking for the rod inspector! 🤔
And, they are CHEAP. Because men have "families." :/
These attitudes!! I can't believe what iv just watched
All those problems are applicable today but they forgot children and pregnancy issues.
Well... I mean you have to admit it is good that the video was still very pro women in the workplace though.
Ahh... The good old 1950s...
Vanilla Unicorn Ahh... The good old GET OVER YOURSELF.
I miss them
Yeah, the constant threat of nuclear war and societal racism and sexism were great.
Your right Clell. Funny not much has changed.
No tony, not much has changed, except single parent rates, drug use rates, divorce rates, abortion rates, fatherless children rates, mental health and illness rates, worsening of the economy, murder and crime rates, loss of living-wage jobs; no, no much has changed at all. Minorities are now a privileged class of people thanks to a rise of Communism and Marxism, and a tearing apart of the Constitution and nuclear family. And that's all that matters, no matter what else has happened....
The foreman likes teaching the women to turn knobs and inspect ball bearings.
Isn't Mr Bradshaw the guy at the basketball court wearing the tux in the Boys beware video?
Donald trump wants to bring these days back.
O course he does ken. Those were the good 'ole days when you COULD grab them by their vajayjay's and get away with it.
except the 90% tax rate on nazi welfare queens like trump that actualy made those years great
why he can buy all the feminists he wants
Um, no, sexual assault was never legal. If I grabbed a women like that she would just call the cops or her brother to come kick my shit in.
crimson jack that would be GREAT!
Break a relief girl in. Hmmmmm okay
GEEZ . . . .We used to watch these "one reelers" in elementary school . . .Thought they were perfectly normal . . .
.Course I was 6 years old
Glenn Miller didn't go missing in WWII after all
Is it not reasonable to ask why you’re being moved from your regular station at work?
Brad lives at home with his mom.
I've got a couple of Bearings she can inspect...and it's gonna be a long inspection...
Hard to find.
Staci Garrison- ...still...better wear your safety goggles...you don't want to get any inspection fluid in your eye...
phuck ewe- Lol. link was blocked...
I think 'ole Brad is on to something...
easy there fella, I'm sure you and Brad can find a man if you really try
Jake Jezwinski- I was wondering where the useless liberal prick was...you're a month late...
But you should be happy, pantslizard; your trolling garnered the response you were looking for, right? Silly troll.
ScarlettCrimson- [bows deeply]
This video is decidedly far less sexist than the title leads on.
Now women can vote and want equal wages. My God when will it end!
Say what you want, marriages lasted longer, economy was better, drugs were practically non-existent compared today, and the incarceration rates were NOWHERE NEAR this level.
@Kitten Lyric You can check the crime stats. Much lower in most places. Fewer drugs too.
Brad really hasn’t gotten some in a while
it seems like the point of the film was to blame the boss not the women