By now my feelings on the omitting or blurring of women's photos in magazines and ad circulars is well known. I think though that things have finally reached the tipping point. At least for me.
My high schoolers are gearing up for their production, dance and drama, with one on the props committee, which is really not only props but set decoration. That means building the sets from scratch; a lot of cardboard, foam and paint, coupled with blood (literally), sweat, burns, and laughter. (If there are tears we haven't seen them). Part of this endeavor is publicity, aside from going to the local schools to sell tickets, ads are placed in local publications. My niece is running that committee, and alerted me to the following travesty parading as religiosity.
The play is an immigrant story, taking place at the time of the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory fire. The art for the poster and print ads is the backs of two immigrants with an American flag and the Statue of Liberty looming large above them. In one of the ad magazines that are available for free at the supermarket (pages of local ads, some coupons and classifieds, lots of pictures of Rebbes,parlor meetings, accidents and weather related snapshots) the ad is in there, in the relatively early pages (61), albeit there is a change.
The Statue of Liberty's face has been blurred out.
If it wasn't so sad I would laugh.
3 comments:
You must put up a picture of this, it is too absurd to be believed...
I'm not sure which is worse this or in a town off exit 98 of the GSP in a grocery store they have only men hours a few hours at night they apparently think there is something wrong with mixed shopping.
can we really take these fools seriously? the great tragedy is that no one will dare to say the emperor has no clothes ie that the whole thing is nonsense and has nothing to do with religion or tznius. if lady liberty that beautifully chiseled stone can upset anyones sense of i will not say what then och und vay to all of us
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