'Harmful' gender stereotypes in ads to be banned.

[cruiser2]

A lot of people, including our grand daughter who is 22 do not beleive mrs.e does not use any make up including eye lash colouring. She has lovely long black eye lashes. She does use lipstick but no facial crams or powder.
When she was in hospital, the doctors and nurses would not beleive she was 86 as her skin is in such good condition. She does use some oil on her arms and legs but they are not the high priced beauty ones.

[Kaz]

I'm glad that B doesn't cake herself in make-up. She's had her eyelashes dyed but they are beautifully long and curly, and had her eyebrows microbladed because she had them waxed and they took too much off. She's pretty but not vain at all

[Suff]

Whilst flipping through the channels one day I saw a program where young "millennials" were shown 1970's TV shows.

The comments they came out with made me realise that there is almost no point of contact between the country, values, ethics and sheer common sense, that I grew up with and that these things which shaped my life have gone. Forever.

Where we go from here? Not my problem.

My thought is that the very best answer we could give to this is to totally ignore both TV and press advertising. If something is advertised in a "gender neutral" manner, go and buy another product which is not.

Sadly that won't happen. People don't seem to be able to do any research for the products they use (well I'm sure you do Ria as you'd never really know about cruelty otherwise), they seem to want to just sit in front of the TV or the paper and consume whatever pap is regurgitated for them.

I know, I'm a dinosaur. But, wait, I had Facebook first, killed it first too, Twitter, been and gone, old story.

The really odd thing is that the young people, those who this is supposed to be teaching, they're not on TV and watching TV advertising. They're on YouTube, Instagram, Netflix and a host of other services. They're paying for advert averse channels where they don't see all this stuff.

In fact the people that view these most are the very people who think it is ridiculous. The Government, yet again, standing in the station painting the walls a "neutral" colour, whilst the train full of vibrant life has already left.

[Workingman]

The really odd thing is that the young people, those who this is supposed to be teaching etc....

Nah, it is not teaching them, they have already been brainwashed; in schools, in mags, on social media.... they are already on board. This newthink is aimed at the forty, fifty, sixtysomethings of us who need re-educating. We are not thinking properly or correctly, we are outside of the groupthink and must be brought in line.

God forbid that anyone can have thoughts outside of those proscribed by the self-elected, secretive, unnamed, hidden-hands of they who wish to control us. We have to "get with the programme" because it is for the good of us all.

So 'they' say.

Well sorry, chaps and chapesses, but I identify as a rebel and I am not buying in.

[Suff]

Well sorry, chaps and chapesses, but I identify as a rebel and I am not buying in.

Me too....

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