Well you know women being depicted in books as moms and nurturer while dads are breadwinners and head of the family unit is soooo twentieth century.  :rolleyes:

The total removal of the traditional family unit as we know it.

This is the goal folks, they not only wish to limit our perception of the traditional family, they want to ban it altogether. Because after all, there is no differences bewteen the sexes and any evidence of that should be thought of as "gender discrimination".  

Brave new world itz.

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ban-childrens-books-depicting-traditional-families-gender-stereotyping-says





Ban children’s books depicting traditional families: ‘gender stereotyping’ says EU report

by Hilary White
Fri Nov 30, 2012 13:35 EST
Comments (24)Tags: european parliament, european union, gender, gender neutralityBRUSSELS, November 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Politically correct nonsense,” is how Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis described a report by the European Parliament’s gender equality committee, that called for banning of children’s books depicting the traditional family.

The draft report “on eliminating gender stereotypes in the EU,” tabled by a far-Left Dutch MEP, said school curriculum materials should stop depicting men and women in their “traditional roles” of mothers and fathers. It said that such depictions are “encouraging more gender discrimination in different areas of society and all age groups.”

It also promoted quotas for female business executives and excoriated the media for portraying women in traditional roles.

Media depictions of traditional family roles for women, the draft report said, is “gender discrimination” and “facilitates the reproduction of gender stereotypes”.

“Women are in general disproportionately represented in ‘flexible jobs’, suggesting that the traditional belief that women carry the main responsibility for taking care of the family still persists today, forcing them to take part-time jobs and limiting their opportunities on the labour market,” the report said.

Yannakoudakis, who serves as Spokesman on Women’s Rights in the European Parliament, said, “Once again the women’s rights committee is wasting the parliament’s time and taxpayers’ money with left-wing, politically correct nonsense.”

“I’m all for getting women into the workplace, but I believe that women have a choice to make about whether they go out to work or stay at home and raise a family,” she said.

The UK’s Daily Mail reported that, were the draft report’s recommendations to be implemented, it would mean banning most traditional English children’s literature, including works which have become literary classics like Paddington Bear, Peter Pan, and Enid Blyton’s Famous Five stories.

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The report said, “Children are confronted with gender stereotypes at a very young age through television series, television advertisements, study materials and educational programmes, influencing their perception of how male and female characters should behave. Special educational programmes and study materials should therefore be introduced in which men and women are no longer used in examples in their ‘traditional roles’, with the male as the breadwinner of the family and the female as the one who takes care of the children.”

But Yannakoudakis retorted, “Children’s books or television programs which portray a man as a breadwinner and a woman as a homemaker are not harming children, and the European Union has no business suggesting that they do. The proposals will now go the full parliament in the coming months and I hope that my fellow MEPs will see sense and join me in voting down these preposterous plans.”

Joseph Salerno, editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, wrote that the report’s proposals are plainly an example of left-wing totalitarianism.

“These people are not just announcing their intentions to attack the family unit, but to ban by force any mention of it. It’s a little bit like trying to legislate away gravity,” Salerno said.

While the report’s recommendations are not expected to be turned into law any time soon, he said, it does “amply illustrate the darkness at the center of the EU experiment, snuffing out human decency the way a black hole supposedly sucks heat out of the galaxy”.

The connection between hardcore abortion advocacy and the Rights and Gender Equality Committee was revealed this month when Irish MEP Paul Murphy and Swedish MEP Mikael Gustafsson, chair of the committee, demanded that Ireland legalise abortion. The pair issued a letter, signed by fifty-three MEPs, demanding that the Irish government enact legislation allowing direct abortion in cases where the mother’s life is thought to be in danger.  

The letter, addressed to Prime Minister Enda Kenny, states the death of Savita Halappanavar “highlights the need for immediate action to introduce legislation for abortion in Ireland”.

One begins to understand why European liberal "trads" are becoming the way they are.

It's important for Catholics to understand the incipient totalitarianism developing in Europe, and how Traditional Catholic groups are being heavily influenced by it.

What filth.  

This crap really pisses me off.

But the people want this.  They want it, they love it, and they ask for it.  Our leaders are a reflection of their people.  

These awful "EU leaders" are a result of the awful populace that produced them.  And, of course, let's not forget that God is the One Who ultimately gives us our leaders--the leaders we deserve.  

Hunkering down or trying to effect social change is not what is needed.  


What is needed is pure unadulterated evangelization.  Those who live typical lives and raise children are the foot soldiers of God.  Priests and clergy are the officers of this army.  



...I suppose if our officers are going to twiddle their thumbs, it's our duty as "soldiers of God" to do what the clergy is failing to do.  The cost of any kind of success will be on us.  

 :heretic:

Suddenly an islamic takeover of Europe doesn't seem like such a bad thing....

Suddenly an islamic takeover of Europe doesn't seem like such a bad thing....

That will never happen, the Islamics are barely in control of their own nations.

Well we don't need to look at Europe.
How many Catholic homeschooling families have no issue with secular books?
I think the don't even see the things the illustrations and stories are promoting.
They are all worked up about having protestant books that show morally fine illustrations but use a KJV Bible verse but believe the secular texts are better and neutral.
These are the homeschoolers, people rejecting public school and generally more conservative than most in the first place.
I looked into using a public virtual program with my son due to legal issues. Every pic had a woman as a fire fighter, a mixed race family, the dad in a feminine role. It might not be ideal but I'd rather have a protestant book with illustrations of a young girl helping her mom clean with a protestant verse  than pics of women looking like Butch lesbians as firefighters.

It's not just using protestant over secular that is the issue, it's the lack of recognition of what the secular books have in them that is so alarming. They view them as neutral, not dangerous.

 
It's actually worse than that, even.  Gun companies have joined in on it, as have game wardens throughout the US.  I can't tell you how many photos I have seen recently of women hunting, with the mother and daughter in camouflage posing over a downed deer, with or without the father and son along with them.  I know that guns are the great equaliser such that women can hunt effectively, even with bows, but I find the idea of women hunting to be repulsive.  It's one more symptom of degeneration, and I always lose respect for any man when I hear that he took his wife or daughter hunting with him.  This is the so-called "traditional" and "socially conservative" milieu in North America -- the women hunting.  It's everywhere.  I haven't seen an advertisement with only men hunting in a long time.

The current phase if mankind is going to end in more blood and death than the world had ever seen.  It will build towards a crisis or else God in His mercy will end it first, or a combination of the two.  But we can expect war, famine, pestilence, and death in the near future.  How can it now be avoided ?

The world celebrates their own...

...Be crucified to the world as the world is crucified to thee...

The World.

The Holy Church.

They operate on different planes and should not be confused one for the other.