Clorox’s history of women’s unwaged labor

Okay, not really. But this ad for Clorox does end up unintentionally showing how women have been doing household grunt work for generations.
The worst line in the commercial says that “even a man or two” has done the laundry. As if all the women watching are supposed to have some little laugh to ourselves about the inequitable division of labor. “I do shit work for free, tee hee!”
(Also, as was pointed out by tipster Jessica Hicks, depending on how you listen to the line–it could be read as a little dirtier than intended.)

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