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Vox Day points out a trend I admit I never noticed before. But his analysis makes sense.

Isn’t it interesting how the secularists always seem to do whatever they claim to be afraid of conservatives and Christians doing? It looks as if secular Europeans are far more puritanical than the American religious right would ever dream of being. Some time ago I wrote that women’s rights were a disease… it’s clear that cancer would have been the most apt comparison. Perhaps by the time men are banned from smoking, drinking, having sex, playing video games, watching football, or leaving the house without express written consent from a woman, people will begin to realize that my warning was dead-on.

This is in response to news that the EU is considering implementing new guidelines to eliminate sexist content, including portrayals of “gender roles,” from television advertising. Which means: no more Eva Herzigova lingeré commercials, and no more bare-chested male construction workers selling soda pop.

Not that we need such things in advertising, I’ll grant. It’s still a good point: I thought it was supposed to be us uptight, Christian folk that were the prudes and puritans in the world? And yet, more often than not, it seems to be the case that it is secular politicians who are the ones calling for restrictions on television content and the consumption of “vice” products like alcohol and tobacco.

Okay, we can grant the exception of those Christian fringe groups in America that lobby against Grand Theft Auto. They lobby for policy change…but one can’t help but notice that they never really get anywhere. This situation is different.

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