The following was taken/stolen/borrowed whole hog from Feministe, "one of the oldest feminist blogs online designed by and run by women from the ground up."
The post was too good to excerpt.
Lady Problems
(For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to Brooklyn-based Yiddish-language newspapers, one of them photoshopped the women out of a photo of the Situation Room because “The readership of the Tzeitung believes that women should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like, and the Jewish laws of modesty are an expression of respect for women, not the opposite,” said Publisher Albert Friedman. We should definitely start respecting men in the same way: By removing their images from the public sphere, even where it means completely changing the facts of any given event. Now, back to your regularly scheduled news articles about the wonderful President Michelle Obama).
The post was too good to excerpt.
Lady Problems
I believe that men should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like. So I totally understand a Brooklyn hipster newspaper’s decision to photoshop all the men out of photos of the Situation Room:
(For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to Brooklyn-based Yiddish-language newspapers, one of them photoshopped the women out of a photo of the Situation Room because “The readership of the Tzeitung believes that women should be appreciated for who they are and what they do, not for what they look like, and the Jewish laws of modesty are an expression of respect for women, not the opposite,” said Publisher Albert Friedman. We should definitely start respecting men in the same way: By removing their images from the public sphere, even where it means completely changing the facts of any given event. Now, back to your regularly scheduled news articles about the wonderful President Michelle Obama).
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