Mostly because you haven't had one from me in a while. This article came across my radar very recently. The headline is provocative and also wrong: "Saudi Arabia’s Alternative to Photoshopping Women Out of Ads: Scribbling All Over Cleavage."
The article discusses Ikea's decision to photoshop women out of ads in catalogs shipped to Saudi Arabia and subsequent repentance of that decision. It comes fully equipped with photos to show Ikea's artistry as well as the alternative --"Scribbling All Over Cleavage," according to the headline. Take a look though. The women's cleavage has not been covered: in many cases the entire woman has, leaving a black shadow or pixelated ghost where a woman had been.
It gives an eerie visual for a sexism that we sometimes here about in America, but rarely see, reminding us of the work yet to be done in the world.
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