The female image is licentious
Some cities in Israel have cut Jennifer Lawrence out of posters advertising the movie she stars in, because, you know, women are hoooooors unless they’re hidden away like dirty laundry.
Most Israeli cities have been treated to the standard poster of the final “Hunger Games” installment, featuring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen posing with her bow and arrow. But in the ultra-Orthodox suburb of Bnei Brak, as well as in Israel’s capital city Jerusalem – where several neighborhoods are heavily religious – residents instead received a censored version of the poster, featuring only an image of the fiery crown.
Extremely religious versions of Judaism consider the female image to be licentious, and ultra-Orthodox newspapers, catalogues and advertisements routinely edit out photographs of females entirely. City posters in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem featuring images of women have been often been vandalized, and Bnei Brak specifically, the city municipality bans public images that could be deemed offensive to its religious population.
Because women are hoors. You can look at men all you want, but women – no no no, because they’re hoors. We hates’em, precious.
H/t Seth
because, you know, women are hoooooors unless they’re hidden away like dirty laundry.
Hidden away like dirty laundry or, even better, kicked out of a homeless shelter because the Bible says so.
Interestingly the film company still thinks it worth advertising the film in these ultra-orthodox areas which suggests that many of the ultra-orthodox would creep in to see the film even if they object to the poster.
@2 You seem to think that the ultra-orthodox only “police” areas where they are the great majority of the residents. This is not at all the case.
We owns ’em, precious.
How did/do the ‘ultra-orthodox’ carry on in situations where they couldn’t exploit a Special Relationship with the civil government? We have periodic scandals about enclaves in New York, but it is amazing that this kind of public jihadism has managed to blossom so late in history.
And I think the ‘hoor’ notion is backwards. They hate ‘hoors’ because they are women, not the other way around. ‘Hoors’ are women whose work makes them commit the unpardonable sin of being visible.
John, just like the Christian Evangelicals, Haredi Judaism isn’t the original form of Judaism, it is a reaction to modernity, and in this case specifically as a reaction to the rise of Reform Judaism in the 19th century. The status of women in Judaism had ups and downs, often in parallel with their status in the surrounding culture, though as far as I know, it was always formally lower than the status of men, especially where it came to religious education and religious participation. (OTOH at times women played important roles in economic life and had better access to secular education.)
This issue feels strange to me. Culturally, I exist in a space where conservative criticism of images like that is non existent, but feminist criticism is everywhere.
Meh, feminist criticism of the poster? Her body is covered in practical gear. While the pose is off-balance, it seems to be emphasizing both the archery and the bird metaphor. I know she’s endured mockery for representing the Hunger Games while refusing to drop to the unhealthy weight that would be skinny enough for Hollywood’s usual waifs. I’m not seeing much to complain about.