Fairness Commission: Third Chamber has decided

This was upheld, as were seven of the complaints. Two each for disregarding the "Stop advertising" sticker, for unlawful sending of e-mail advertising and for gender discrimination, as well as in the case of an offer for an entry in the register disguised as an invoice. two of the four complaints for gender discrimination were directed against the denigration of women and two against the denigration of men; two each were approved and rejected - equally divided between the two genders.

Man becomes a will-less object

The cases of a shop window sculpture that referred to the "nose art" on airplanes from the 1940s and the subject of a man with a naked upper body for advertising an iron were approved. On the one hand, there was no natural connection between the subject and the headline "Hot appliance", and on the other, the man being doused with a syrup-like liquid was depicted as a will-less and manipulable object. The subject of the woman riding on a bomb with her legs spread was objected to as degrading, as it allowed an unobstructed view of the woman's crotch.

Mercy before justice

On the other hand, the clearly humorous depiction of a man wearing a brassiere and the subject of a woman wearing only a chain mail shirt were judged to be louder, although this was a borderline case. Although the respondent's assertion that such chain mail shirts are usually actually worn on bare skin in the security and design sector was considered credible, the associated reference to "attractive offers" was judged to be at least ambivalent. All in all, the Third Chamber gave the law the benefit of the doubt in this case.