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Remember last week we pointed out how Gisele Bundchen's new lingerie commercial "kills feminism dead"? Well, we're glad to hear that the Brazilian government agrees: they've banned the adverts, stating: "The campaign promotes the misguided stereotype of a woman as a sexual object of her husband and ignores the major advances we have achieved in deconstructing sexist practices and thinking." [Guardian]