Author Topic: Women in Jewish magazines (Read 68768 times)

Is it indeed humiliating?

Reminds me of when my kids complain about someone bothering them. More often than not, it's the choice of the person being bothered as to whether they are bothered or not.

I don't understand. The author condemns how women have been obliterated from these publications. Yet women are constantly featured, discussed and praised in these magazines. It's just their photograph that doesn't appear. Are they saying that a women's entire worth is in her appearance, not her education, achievements and career?

The editor of the Mishpacha is a woman. The editor of the Hamodia is a woman. The editor of the Family First is a woman. The editor of the Ami Living is a woman.

These publications have steady female columnists who are successful psychologists, educators, doctors, and business professionals, not to mention rebbetzins.

What is humiliating about not having your picture?

I've read countless articles in various academic journals. None of them have pictures of the professors who authored them, just their names.

gingyguy · « **Reply #192 on:** December 31, 2017, 09:37:02 PM »

Quote from: shlonx on December 31, 2017, 08:34:31 PM

I don't understand. The author condemns how women have been obliterated from these publications. Yet women are constantly featured, discussed and praised in these magazines. It's just their photograph that doesn't appear. Are they saying that a women's entire worth is in her appearance, not her education, achievements and career?

The editor of the Mishpacha is a woman. The editor of the Hamodia is a woman. The editor of the Family First is a woman. The editor of the Ami Living is a woman.

These publications have steady female columnists who are successful psychologists, educators, doctors, and business professionals, not to mention rebbetzins.

What is humiliating about not having your picture?

I've read countless articles in various academic journals. None of them have pictures of the professors who authored them, just their names.

only difference is they dont have pictures of any authors male or female.

gingyguy · « **Reply #193 on:** December 31, 2017, 09:52:00 PM »

i find interesting that the author of that article is calling on rabbinic leadership to do the right thing by following her views
seems like she is confused on the definition of rabbinic leadership.

shlonx · « **Reply #194 on:** December 31, 2017, 10:22:12 PM »

Quote from: gingyguy on December 31, 2017, 09:37:02 PM

only difference is they dont have pictures of any authors male or female.

Right, which shows that its the content that matters, no? And that their picture doesn't define them; they don't feel "humiliated" when their picture isn't shown.

Not all columns in heimishe publications have pictures of their authors, either.

hvaces42 · « **Reply #195 on:** December 31, 2017, 10:26:54 PM »

Quote from: shlonx on December 31, 2017, 10:22:12 PM

Right, which shows that its the content that matters, no? And that their picture doesn't define them; they don't feel "humiliated" when their picture isn't shown.

Not all columns in heimishe publications have pictures of their authors, either.

Someone please post the missed the point gif...

Here tattelleh...we will spoonfeed it to you so you get it...every male writer in the frum publications can have his picture posted. No women are accorded the same respect.

etech0 · « **Reply #196 on:** December 31, 2017, 10:35:16 PM »

etech0 · « **Reply #197 on:** December 31, 2017, 10:35:26 PM »

shlonx · « **Reply #198 on:** December 31, 2017, 10:54:03 PM »

Quote from: hvaces42 on December 31, 2017, 10:26:54 PM

Someone please post the missed the point gif...

Here tattelleh...we will spoonfeed it to you so you get it...every male writer in the frum publications can have his picture posted. No women are accorded the same respect.

Point boomeranged, came around and hit me in the face.

Still, is it "humiliating" not to be offered to have your picture? Disrespectful, as you put it? Do the women in the magazine even want their pictures in? If they want their pictures printed alongside their articles, they can submit them to publications that will do so. Why demand of the heimeshe publications to accede to their demands?

Ms. Keats Jaskoll published her article in a place that gladly puts the author's picture in, and she is entitled to do so, obviously. She is free to read and publish in places that have women's pictures. But why impose her demands on other communities that don't?

hvaces42 · « **Reply #199 on:** January 01, 2018, 12:08:29 AM »

Quote from: shlonx on December 31, 2017, 10:54:03 PM

Point boomeranged, came around and hit me in the face.

Still, is it "humiliating" not to be offered to have your picture? Disrespectful, as you put it? Do the women in the magazine even want their pictures in? If they want their pictures printed alongside their articles, they can submit them to publications that will do so. Why demand of the heimeshe publications to accede to their demands?

Ms. Keats Jaskoll published her article in a place that gladly puts the author's picture in, and she is entitled to do so, obviously. She is free to read and publish in places that have women's pictures. But why impose her demands on other communities that don't?

Impose her demands. You guys make it sound like its such a burden. Oy, these impossible women. Misogyny, much?

The question still remains, where, when and how did this become the norm in orthodox publications? When did little girls become sexualized that frum men cannot be trusted to look at them? When did tznius dressed women become vixens to be avoided at all costs.

Poll

Do you think heimishe magazines should show pictures of tzniusdig women?

Author Topic: Women in Jewish magazines (Read 68768 times)