Sexist adverts limit our children’s horizons. Let’s keep fighting them | Joanna Moorhead

Yes, we’ve moved on since the really bad old days – but as a new ruling on sexist ads show, damaging stereotypes still abound

Twentysomethings are getting fed up with what they see as an overload of political correctness, which is bad news. One young woman in my family heard a piece on Newsbeat this morning about the clampdown on advertising that’s sexist or stereotyping, and told me she thinks it’s getting out of hand, and we should all stop getting so overexcited about it.

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