![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Newspaper prints Situation Room photo with women photoshopped out because pictures of women may encourage attention to their physical attributes rather than to their accomplishments, which we all know can't happen to men. Ultimately I don't think the line between "women shouldn't participate in public life" and "we should erase the evidence that women actually do participate in public life" is sustainable, as this incident demonstrates. I've seen this described as a clash of values. But it's not, at least in any sense anyone is bound to respect. The paper could have declined to print the picture at all, instead of distorting the truth, without violating its commitment to avoiding pictures of women. It's only the desire to show men being active that necessitates the distortion.
Tags:
From:
no subject
Exactly. In the response, one of the men says his wife works at the paper. As if that makes what was done legitimate.
Their sexism is so inbred and common that they don't even recognize it. And you'll never be able to convince them of it.