In which religious fanatics airbrush that sex symbol Hillary Clinton out of a picture:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Sigh........the same Ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper that airbrushed Israeli *women* politicians has now done this to Hillary Clinton, claiming with a straight face that she's too sexually suggestive to accept in the photograph. I mean no disparagement to Secretary of State Clinton's political skills to note that she's well past the age where she could be considered this save to a certain few:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/08/ultra-orthodox-jewish-newspaper-photoshops-hillary-out-of-history/

Maybe it's just me and my admitted distaste for women politicians as sex symbols (face it, when Palin's what people define as attractive, the USA's no Italy), but even Sarah Palin's photos don't meet standards of sexually suggestive photographs. But this is the magazine which also refused to run photographs of Tzipi Livni in the Israeli elections last year (I imagine if Clinton and Livni are sexually suggestive, that someone like Natalie Portman or Bar Refaeli would induce heart attacks in these same people). Forgive me if I sound a bit more like the Ameriright members of the community here, but if people can't man up and get with the 21st Century and accept photographs of women on the cover of their magazines, they've no business being in marketing. Unfortunately these are also the same assclowns who hate the Israeli state, see it as an abomination.....and never hesitate to accept their monthly welfare checks from Satan's state.

The photograph, I might note, is the one mentioned in a previous thread about how Hillary was "excessively emotional." Which leads me to ask a question that's been bugging me for a while: what does Hillary Clinton do to send people in that kind of hysterical reaction about her hand being over her face? I mean she's an extremely effective Democratic politician, but it's not quite clear to me how *that* turns into the assclownery that greets a lot of her actions as Secretary of State.

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[blorky.livejournal.com]

Thank you for making me look up who Bar Rafaeli is.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :-).

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Hasidim are rather a special case, thankfully.

The sect doesn't much like modernity yet somehow refuses to recuse themselves from living among it. Most non-Hasidic Jews that I know would find it gratifying if they'd do the Amish thing already.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

True.

[il-mio-gufo.livejournal.com]

Is the idea of woman being more than a mere sexual being really an idea belonging to modernity?

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

but even Sarah Palin's photos don't meet standards of sexually suggestive photographs

Oh, I don't know, some of those pictures of her in that jogging outfit had a little heat in them. ;)

I guess they don't care for Italian politics at all, eh?

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I don't think even Italians care for Italian politics at this point. ;P

I've never seen what makes Sarah Palin attractive, honestly. She's a woman who's really non-descript in terms of looks, not a stunner. After five kids that'd be hard for any woman to remain as if she started out as one, really.

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know, some of those pictures of her in that jogging outfit had a little heat in them. ;)

To be fair to Sarah Palin, those were actually taken for a magazine that's specifically devoted to jogging. :)

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I hope Hillary is flattered.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's more damning with faint praise than anything else. ;P

[rasilio.livejournal.com]

Some religions just can't get their heads out of the 13th century.



As far as the emotionalism of her holding her hand over her mouth. No clue, I never saw that referenced here so I'm not really sure how widespread that "analysis" was. Personally I just thought she was stifling a yawn. Even if it was some kind of emotional reaction to a tense situation I really don't see anything to complain about. I mean her reaction is a hell of a lot better than Biden's "Isn't Tony Stark in this movie" act and no worse than Obama's edge of his seat intent stare.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Technically speaking some of those 13th Century Jewish poems were rather more raunchy than what these people would realize. Don't be hatin' on the Sephardim. ;P

That was Blue_Mango's thread, I was simply keeping to the "no naming people in OPs" rule.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Again, the very thought that that yawn is an issue somewhere, is mind-boggling.

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

How on earth is she too sexually suggestive in that photo? She's wearing a suit with a shirt that goes all the way up to her neck.

Poor Hillary just can't catch a break with this picture.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's the kind of thing that prompted my second paragraph. I mean she's managed to light a fire under a lot of people's asses. Given who some of those people are that actually makes her look even better than not.... ;P

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Outdoor advertisement companies (billboards, bus stops, you name it) in the Haredic parts of Williamsburg and Borough Park Brookyn have their hands full trying to place ads that don't offend folks, but they do try to cooperate with community leaders.

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

Probably because she wasn't dressed "modestly." (http://jumpinbloomers.com/)

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

But she's plausibly female!

How this newspaper saw Hillary Clinton in this photo:

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Yes, there was actually a Barack the Barbarian comic book. This was an actual thing that actually happened. (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/573985.html)

Re: How this newspaper saw Hillary Clinton in this photo:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That comic reminded me of the inverse Liberality For All (with the excuse that it's at least a parody, where the other wasn't exactly intended to be).

[weythran.livejournal.com]

Ah, family.

I remember being in Israel, and there was this woman running for Knesset, and religious newspapers had to publish a photo of all the members (or then-candidates?) standing together. The papers erased that woman from the photo, cropped out a guy who stood at one of the edges, and inserted him in her place.

Tzniut is a bitch.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That's what I was referring to WRT Livni. But that's the Hassidim for you, the typical Modern Fundies who prefer to erase entirely temptation as opposed to facing it like their religions would theoretically mandate.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

By distaste, you meant sexual distaste of politicians in general?

[kylinrouge.livejournal.com]

Extremist group does a thing not reflective of society! Shock and awe!

[mybodymycoffin.livejournal.com]

To be fair: it's not about Hillary being sexually suggestive, but that that ultra-conservative doesn't publish photos of any women, period.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[dreadfulpenny81.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, a human being...EMOTING?!? What is this world coming to?!?

Not only did they edit Clinton out, they also removed Audrey Tomason (national director of counter-terrorism). If they have a problem with even showing women in photographs, how can they have women as part of their religion?

Oh yeah...they gotta get money from SOMEWHERE. (That remark has nothing to do with the Jewish people. I've had a problem with organized religion in general since 1997 when our church sent my mother a letter saying she wasn't tithing enough according to her tax bracket. I wish I were kidding, but I'm not.)

[airiefairie.livejournal.com]

This is why I turned from Catholic to Discordian. Hail Eris! =)