Turns Out Hilary Too Smexy For Der Tzitung

Turns out that ultra orthodox Jewish newspapers are none to fond of having females in their newspapers.  Der Tzitung actually photo-shopped Hilary Clinton (our now secretary of state) right out of history. The hasdic publication held concerns that the image of a female in the paper would would "excite" strict hasdic jews.

Hilary was not the only one photo-shopped out though.  Audrey Thomason, the counterterrorism analyst who can be seen to the right peering between two male colleges, was also edited out.

Rabbi Jason Miller raised a point of concern in the New York Jewish Week.

"Der Tzitung edited Hillary Clinton out of the photo, thereby changing history. To my mind, this act of censorship is actually a violation of the Jewish legal principle of g'neivat da'at (deceit)."

Besides raising eyebrows, there is also much concern over the disclaimer in which the photo was released:

"This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

My guess: Perhaps the publication may opt out of photos that have women in them in the first place rather than attempt to alter a widely circulated print. I'm doubtful this "changed history" as a whole. Then agian, maybe it did with a few devout readers of Der Tzitung.

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On average more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States. In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/intimate/ipv.htm.

In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published data collected in 2005 that finds that women experience two million injuries from intimate partner violence each year. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5705a1.htm.

Nearly one in four women in the United States reports experiencing violence by a current or former spouse or boyfriend at some point in her life. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5705a1.htm

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A Day Of Third Wave Feminism

"Third-wave feminism is a term identified with several diverse strains of feminist activity and study whose exact boundaries in the historiography of feminism are a subject of debate, but often marked as beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present. The movement arose as a response to the perceived failures of and backlash against initiatives and movements created by second-wave feminism of 1960s through the 1970s, and the realization that women are of "many colors, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds". The third wave embraces contradictions, conflict and irrationality and attempts to accommodate diversity and change. There is, in this wave as in previous ones, no all-encompassing single feminist idea as all social movements resist static and unitary definition." -wikipedia.com

I want to share with you two stories that are just days apart.  Both protest ironically enough centering around such an overlooked right, the right to celebrate our bodies in accordance to how we, as individuals, see fit....