Ads in Europe are appalling

So I know that Europe is pretty free-spirited, but I'm getting tired of seeing ads like these everywhere I look.

On the tram, on the metro, on billboards, in store windows, on magazine covers, 

Europe is bombarded with sexual images.

I've gotten into the habit of sitting as far away from the metro doors as possible

so I don't have to see all the clubs advertising with sex.

Luckily,

I like to read, so I'm usually absorbed in my book

while traveling from school to tutoring to home

and repeat.

So, I guess these phones are twice as good as other phones?

What kind of woman would pose for this!

Let me sell some jewelry with my legs open..

so degrading.

And these, let me tell you, are Czech politicians who posed last year for a risque calendar.

 Did they think their ratings would go up after the publication of this calendar?

If this was done in the U.S., they would never be voted for again.

At least I would hope not.

Okay, Europe,

let's just feed into the stereotype of women being seen as sex symbols only.

Sorry for the rant today,

but this issue really angers me,

especially when women believe it and allow it to happen

and men continue to fund the industries 

and children grow up with warped ideas about

gender and sex and their worth as people.

Okay, ok, I'll stop now. 

H