Notice Anything Missing From This Picture?
You have to look very carefully at this photo to catch it, but two people are missing.
This Soviet style airbrushing was done by Der Tzitung, a Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper. Apparently the paper's editorial policy excludes images of women from its pages, citing our "sexually suggestive" nature.
It's not even the removal of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that bothers me -- it's what they've done with our Audrey Tomason, who was so discreet in the first place!
The thing that gets me about this photoshopping is that the picture was made so much more interesting because of Clinton's expression, er, cough. If Der Tzitung doesn't want pictures with the ladies in them, that's one thing. But there's no need to use this picture. Why not just pick another one?
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May '10
Re: Notice Anything Missing From This Picture?
Please stop suggesting sex, Mollie. How many times can I say no?
I do know a New Yorker who is attracted to both Hillary and Kay Bailey. But he's Episcopalian, and is barraged by such imagery daily. All very stressful as you can imagine. We've had to block Politico.
PS Audrey wasn't discreet; she was teasing.
Nov '10
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I realize I'm not sufficiently "culturally competent," but that...just kinda offends me. I'm not going to jump up and down about it, of course, because Der Tzitung can run any picture any way it bloody well pleases. But it's unsettling and creepy, in my opinion. Was there any mention that the women *had* been in the original picture? Do readers know that the picture was altered?
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I found this video of their editorial board meeting when the policy was drafted:
May '10
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It's a dumb and unethical practice, no matter who is doing it. Were the women at least listed in the photo caption?
Aug '10
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Having been a part of Episcopalian congregations in the past, I know firsthand the truth of what you say.
It's not all bad, though, at least if you're a girl, since you stand out by comparison.
Mar '11
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I don't see what the big deal is. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been the Invisible Woman ever since she joined this Administration. Until Libya, that is.
May '10
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I have no understanding of Hebrew so I wonder if the text of the newspaper even acknowledges Mrs. Clinton's existence.
As I understand it, Hasidic Jews do not shun technology like the Amish. So certainly, their readers are at an understanding that reality is being ignored to accommodate some religious belief.
It is bizarre and somewhat amusing but since the reality is widely available to them it is relatively benign.
I wonder if the paper outsources their Photoshop needs or they have some poor guy in the backroom the Rabbis accidentally castrated during the Bris milah furiously removing women from wire photos.
Edited on May 9, 2011 at 8:36amMar '11
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Notice anyone added to this picture?
May '10
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Puritans.
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Oh, Molly, you and your shameless shiksa locks inflaming the lust of innocent men in your 30x30-pixel headshot, how can you complain about a mere act of piety…that is really Stalinist in its weirdness, isn’t it?
I mean, you disappear the women? I mean, superimpose a black box on their non-bewigged tresses, ok, I see your point, but…erase the evidence of their existence? That suggests a psychological level of difficulty with the relations between the sexes, does it not?
In the future, I think they should just have a Photoshop tool that imposes an Afghan burqa on the ladies. That way they’ll look properly chaste and…Jewish?