Monday, September 08, 2008



EU wants to ban 'sexist' TV commercials



Reality is banned!
"MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything deemed to portray women as sex objects or reinforce gender stereotypes. This could potentially mean an end to attractive women advertising perfume, housewives in the kitchen or men doing DIY. Such classic adverts as the Diet Coke commercial featuring the bare-chested builder, or Wonderbra's "Hello Boys" featuring model Eva Herzigova would have been banned.

The new rules come in a report by the EU's women's rights committee. Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson urged Britain and other members to use existing equality, sexism and discrimination laws to control advertising. She wants regulatory bodies set up to monitor ads and introduce a "zero-tolerance" policy against "sexist insults or degrading images". Ms Svensson said: "Gender stereotyping in advertising straitjackets women, men, girls and boys by restricting individuals to predetermined and artificial roles that are often degrading, humiliating and dumbed down for both sexes."

Source

There seem to be a lot of people these days who are NOT "restricted to predetermined and artificial roles". So how did that happen? Maybe none of them watch TV!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The eu is the most insignificent , petty organization there is next to the u.s. congress. They both should be banned. Maybe the companies should use uggos like the eu commisioners.

Anonymous said...

Of course advertising portraying men as whimps and idiots who need to be constantly corrected by their wives and children won't be banned...

Anonymous said...

This could explain why Orangina (couple posts ago) went with animals.

PETA just says be nice to them.

Anonymous said...

IMO, "sex" should not be the reason to market a product, however denying that there are physical differences between men and women is just plain ignorant. And denying that men can be aroused by women and that women can be aroused by men is to deny human nature.

There's a huge difference between exploitation and affirmation of these wonderful differences, but then again, the EU is rarely known for its intelligence.

Anonymous said...

Soon only asexual grey people in baggy grey jumpsuits will be allowed to talk about tripe.

1984 is fact.

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't be too sure about the idea that this idiocy wouldn't have come up had Adolf conquered and kept Europe. Today's Leftists are only slightly more subtle than his sledgehammer approach. Plus he stood for many of the same ideas, as the various monographs on these sites have shown. Well, at least we delayed the stupidity by about 50 to 60 years. Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid.

Anonymous said...

The EUROWEENIE UNION stike again so who claimed the soviet union was dead after all?