EU to ban sex in advertising?

Oh, this is rich. The nations that don’t blink an eye at sex and nudity in films are thinking about banning “sexist” commercials.

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.

[…] 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”.

[…] 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.”

To be fair, it’s probably just the yapping of an annoying woman bureaucrat in the world’s most annoying bureaucracy. The European Union is a frightening thing to behold, George Orwell’s 1984 practically come to life, and a sample of the nanny state that America must never allow (yes, I’m looking at you, Obama and Democrats).

I’ll have to do a little research, but I’m dying to know what the EU’s women’s rights committee has to say about the Islamic misogynists in Europe’s midst, and the practices of forced marriages and the like.

This is pure Rush Limbaugh material. My gut tells me that this suggestion will go nowhere. Unless the EU determines that Israeli companies are behind the sexist advertising. Then, look out. It’ll be adopted in a heartbeat.