EU Superstate Wants to Control What Type of Advertisements You Can See
Adverts which use sex to sell or promote gender stereotypes could be banned by the EU. Euro 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 be 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. Gender stereotyping in advertising is one of several factors that have a big influence in efforts to make society more gender equal.”
“When women and men are portrayed in a stereotypical way the consequence may be that it becomes difficult in other contexts to see women and men’s resources and abilities.”
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The PC crowd have truly taken over the [EU] asylum.
Perhaps we could have muslim women advertising eye shadow instead!!
So I guess they would have another expensive Euro QUANGO to vet or censor adverts & probably also weed out anything anti EU as well.
Maybe political advertising would eventually come under this?
They aren’t happy unless they get their grubby fingers over everything.
Somebody said that they will outlaw everything unless it is expressly permitted by them.
Which I suppose is a version of Napoleonic justice that you are guilty until proven innocent.
Farcical regulations spewing from every orifice in their bodies.
Crush the EU.
Washing powder adverts had better lie low for a while, after all they are all supposed to wash “whiter than white”, very un-pc.
“Time to just ignore the EU.” Oh, no, bertie bert. That would be a fatal error. The EU has to be fought against tooth and nail. Dentibus et vnguibus.
This would surely open the way for female Labour ex MPs, having been defeated at the next General Election, to make new careers in advertising. So many sexless faces, so many of doubtful facial gender identification. They could advertise after shave and perfume at the same time! This is what the sisterhood wants, sexless women and increasing irrelevence for men. I can think of many of “Blair’s Babes” who would be better off behind a burka!! Sexist me!!
Good advice though, needs must - Ed
crispy, “Guaranteed to make your clothes black” - now that would be an unusual marketing ploy.
I always try to think in three dimensions,and being an old cynic I come to conclusions that always seem to me to have a negative feature as regarding our lot. Now to me this proposal is most definately the thin edge of the wedge. Banning advertising that the “consensus” find inappropriate. Well surely this exists anyway. The Advertising Standards Agency takes care of that. No I believe this is to stop the likes of Nationalist thought. The first casualty is the Truth Truck. They would tell the world and his wife. “Even if what they say is the truth, it must be stopped “,as it will upset some mythical group.
Using semi clad Women to advertise goods or sevices is part of Western Culture. Good or bad. But they wish to kill it of. I wonder who the not so mythical group are that find it so offensive. The same group who don’t like the idea of a Truth Truck passing through there enclaces of evil no doubt .Telling the truth has always been a bone that our Goverenment have always had trouble digesting. Yes this proposal will again put more constraints on our personal freedoms.
Dear Mister J, love your Latin, old Gorgy will be having some of that when the knives come out on the front benches. “ET TU MILIPEDE”.
I was about to add a post saying ibet you a pound ed that Eva-britt Svensson looks like a bulldog chewing a wasp because women that go over the top about sexism have a good radio face,,but before i did i thought i would google her just to see if i was to be proved wrong,,and guess what ,,,well you tell me what you all think - lol.
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Yup, she’s certainly not your stereotypical Swedish lady: http://tinyurl.com/6d8zls -Ed
Thin edge of the Wedge, Internet and Media Control by our EU controlled Government.
Internet censorship links.
http://www.infowars.com/?p=3730
Come to that, this could be an ideal opportunity to ban mini-skirts and low cut tops. Yeah, then they could make sure women cover their arms and wear some kind of scarf around their heads. All in the interests of not exploiting women and fighting the good fight against sexism, of course.
They will only be happy when women are shown as sexless and wrapped in Burka’s.
I am in despair at what is happening. I have no doubt this will be deleted but I am becoming more militant by the day,
I think this ruling has more to do with the sensibilities of Muslims than the principle of women`s rights.
So perhaps we`ll all be seeing adverts picturing “burkha babes” rather than the current regime.
Hasn`t it occured to these E.U Commissars that women too have rights?
It is their choice to model, and many girls make a successful career out of it.
I should imagine Harriet Harpoon will be rejoicing today over a glass of non-alcoholic “Fair Trade” wine.
With regards to the issues of “dumbing down”. Well this problem is endemic in Western society and at every level - particularly politicians, and so I will sit with baited breath to see how these Euro-Harridans deal with it.
The Evil UPAS (EU) want to control every single detail of our lives from cradle to grave.
Then they’ll want to suppress what political parties you support (aka BNP) and stop anything that goes against the EU superstates views.
Enoch was right back in 72. Royalty. politics are our civil rights would all go. We are no longer a nation in charge of our own destiny. The longer we allow this to go on the worse it will get.
At least the promotional material for the EU won’t include attractive blondes. They have to make do with seedy plump men in suits. If Europe ever gets referenda on whether to stay in the EU that’ll lose them a few percent!
The issue is rather serious; I was a friend of an activist who opposed private hospitals in Britain, and their advertising is deliberately misleading. The Advertising Standards Association is staffed by arts graduates types with no technical competence; all the judgements they make are on trivial matters as you can see from their website. I expect the EU are in the same mould.
@yagooks - is it just me, or does she look like Harry Hill (comedian)?
She has a fascinating CV - vice-chair of the ‘Nordic green left’; Chairman of the People’s Movement no to the EU; groups involving Ukraine, Israel, Civil Liberties, Gender equality.
@warrior - I’ll go for a drive on Sat 20th. Haven’t been to Stoke for some time.
If the EU have their way we won’t be seeing any adverts of any kind. The Eurocrats’ energy policy seems deliberately designed to send us back into the Dark Ages http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/07/do0707.xml
Meanwhile, NuLabour dither, and Cameron and his old Etonian toffs aren’t saying anything at all. They don’t seem to have noticed. Perhaps they believe that electricity comes from meters.
LibLabCon - totally unfit for purpose!
These people get dafter. They live in a fantasy world divorced from reality - one day soon they’re going to get a very rude awakening.
Taking on board all the above comments, I do believe (having been born in 1946) that the English-speaking peoples have suffered a decline in old-fashioned chivalry in the last few decades.
The EU and multi-culti-ism won’t get it back though. It will be down to decent British menfolk who care about their womenfolk and children.
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Agreed - Ed
The EU, our Govt, the Globalists only present choices to the masses that they want you to have.
Here’s how they supress what they do not want you see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iW5kOB1pmg
Both Network Speeches, I know I’ve posted these before but:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPzJGltnCxU
Here’s why they supress the BNP using Shame and Guilt complexes, but you can’t help other Nations and people without securing yourself first, now make up your own mind who you are going to vote for.
http://www.bnp.org.uk/about-us/policies/
yagooks - the link I saw had Ms Svesson loking like Harry Hill; but ‘ed’ found a more impressive image - LOL.
Royalecraig, thanks for the links. Did you see the Rupert Murdoch one:
MySpace is the Trojan Horse of Internet censorship–Media elite’s last gasp to save crumbling empire.
Since Rupert Murdoch’s $580 Million acquisition of MySpace in July 2005, it has come from total obscurity to now being the 8th most visited website in the world, receiving half as many page hits as Google, despite the fact that on first appearance it looks like a 5-year-old’s picture scrap and scribble book. … What most of the trendy wendys remain blissfully unaware of is the fact that MySpace is Rupert Murdoch’s battle axe for shaping a future Internet environment whereby electronic dissent, whether it be against corporations or government, will not be tolerated and freedom of e-speech will cease to exist..
and so on:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/160306myspace.htm
Thanks royalecraig, that’s cheered me up. When Murdoch is tried for crimes against humanity for suppressing truth I’ll be delighted.
Little by little, that’s how they work.
I’ve said this before and I’ll keep saying it. The EUSSR is the ONLY battle. Forget Islam and even immigration, they are secondary to the real problem. If we lose the battle against the EUSSR then we have lost everything. No other battle is winable if we lose the EU war, and believe me it is a war.
The federalists are betting everything on one roll of the dice. They will not allow little things such as elections, integrity or what is left of democracy to thwart them.
If anyone visiting this website believes the federalists will allow themselves to be voted out and into history then these people should not be allowed out without a responsible adult.
Leaving the EUSSR, for us, will be a painful and messy business.
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Painful and messy, perhaps, but staying in would be far worse. - Ed
”Britain and other members”. We are not in the EU are we? If we are, it was by stealth. Anyway, I see this further erosion as a good thing, because those wealthy models and their managers and agents will stand to lose millions. It only hurts when it ”gets personal”’. More please - then the revolution can truly begin.
I agree with realmoney,the EU. is the most important war to win,we must get ourselves out of this mess. Next year’s EU elections are very important to us,we must win some seats, in fact a lot of them,if the LibZaNuLabCon merchants dont fiddle the vote!
I have seen many stupid, and/or insane pieces of legislation come out of the EU. But this must take the biscuit!
What sort of dimwits do they think we are?
Oh yes!!! I remember now.
The same ones who keep voting the nice people in the LibLabConspiracy into power over us.
Those nice people who think they know better than us,
Those nice people who think they have the right to tell us how to think, and how to behave,and what we should say.
Those nice people intent on wiping out the last vestige of the British people, the British people whose nature is one of tolerance, and live and let live.
In the race to bring us the benefits of a multicultural, diverse, and homogeneous society, they are treading on very thin ice.
I see an upsurge of rage against the tyranny of those nice people.
The indigenous races are fed up to the back teeth with correct behaviour and nannying from cradle to grave.
How dare they dictate to us!!!
WE choose what to think.
WE choose what to believe.
WE choose what to say.
WE choose how our country is run.
WE choose BNP.
Oh great if there arn’t any adverts with bare chested men in them how will girls fuel the chest hair or no chest hair debate in work!!! (Chest hair def!) I agree with realmoney we have to get out of the EU its threatening to turn us into 1984 no freedom of speech or choice at all. If were not carefull we’ll all speaking newspeak and that would bed double plus bad!
You have to smile at the EU sometimes.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in a land where the EU had no say. Where the goons in Brussels could argue about how bendy a banana should be or just how do you advertise a bra without a woman in her under ware?
Where they could pass crazy laws and even pass water if they wanted to and it would of no concern to us. Where the welfare of the population was put before M.P’s back handers and fat cat pension schemes.
I hope to live in a land like that someday.
To Hell with the EU and Long live Great Britain.
I love it Gamlegorm.
Murdoch tried for suppressing the truth? He’s Australian isn’t he, suppose they will put him before a Kangaroo court.
When the BNP gets into power, I hope they set up a Quango destroying anti-EUSSR procedure. May I suggest a name? The AXE! Short, sharp and sweet.
On the subject of advertising, if you just overheard this without seeing the advert, you’d swear it was advertising the liblabcon trio rather than shampoo:
http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA6498&advertiser=Head%20&%20Shoulders
Yesssssssss Yipeeeeeeeeeeee - no more demeaning of women. I have today made a list of everything that is demeaning to women. Shopping, cooking, washing dishes, making beds, ironing, dusting, crumbling Oxo cubes into stews, making tea, work of any description. Yep demeaning. My list of activities from today is confined exclusively to: Staying in bed until 12 noon, graciously stuffing my face with chocolates, consuming two bottles of wine a day, (ignoring phones that ring) giving orders, complaining bitterly about the lack of submissiveness from ‘im indoors etc., etc., DOUBLE PLUS GOOD - love it !!
Now I need the EUSSR to persuade that Neanderthal who also inhabits my living space to see things my way. Any guidelines/directives ?????
How long before an iman is in every newspaper shop, ready and waiting with a black marker pen to delete/deface any *unsavoury images* that might “offend”?
It is going to get worse ….. “Wake up Britain” before it is too late!
We have GOT to leave the EU.
Just proof, if any were needed, that the E.U. want to control the media. Well our media is already controlled so it’s just a continuation of the grand plan. Only when we are free from the E.U. and it’s crazy laws and regulations can we begin to rebuild our Country again.