En1arge Y*ur Facebook Avat@r’s Breasts Now!
Israeli celeb plastic surgeon Dr Dov Klein is running a promotional competition on Facebook, subtly named Faceboobs (a trademark lawsuit waiting to happen?) Women who want their breasts enlarged are asked to send a photo of themselves, which will be posted alongside a manipulated version that simulates what the breasts would look like enlarged. The woman who receives the most comments will get free breast augmentation surgery. One should hope Dr Klein is better with the knife than he is with photoshop.
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IKEA Israel Religiousizes its Models
IKEA Israel will soon launch its second store here, in Rishon Lezion. The new campaign has two versions, one for the general public, another for the religious public. The latter was merely photoshopped as to add yarmulkas to the men’s heads, and replace the women’s pants with skirts (via Baba Kama.)
Religious versions of ads are common in Israel – yarmulkas are often photoshopped onto image bank photos, and women in ads are sometimes photoshoppingly dressed more moderately, but I don’t remember many examples of re-using the same image with added Jewish ritual objects.
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International Women’s Day Facebook Profile Photo
No2Violence Israel is calling Facebook users to show solidarity with abused women by replacing their profile photo on the International Women’s Day with the above avatar, depicting a faceless woman and bearing the slogan “for thousands of women who can’t show their faces”.
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Foreign Press Center Photos #FPC
Bus Drive Livecasting #FPC
Paloma Baytelman is broadcasting live from the bus from New York to Washington DC. Sadly, I can only get her audio.
Arrived in DC
Misogynybusting Update: Reshet Caved in and Self-Censored
Reshet TV ran a billboard campaign for the new season of TV show Shavua Sof. Fundamentalist religious Jewish activists spray painted over the actresses on the billboard in Bnei Brak (a common feat; women’s photos are unwelcome, lest they put indecent thoughts in the hearts of those God mongers), and the City of Bnei Brak covered the women with stickers claiming “this ad is illegal” (no, it isn’t). I blogged yesterday about an activist who adbusted the adbusting, turning the crude deletions into burqas in protest.
Today Reshet was quick to caved in, replacing ten billboards in that area with ones that depict the show’s logo, but none of the actors, and issued an apology: “We apologize if anyone was offended by these billboards, even though we did try to keep them modest.” Apologizing for depicting women on a billboard offenses secular and non-fanatic religious people. Where’s OUR apology, Reshet?
Here’s the full story in Hebrew, on The 7th Eye >>
Adbusting Misogynybusting: Women with Burqas
Some fundamentalist religious Jews have a problem with seeing women in public, namely on billboards and bus-ads. In some cases they misogynybust them by spray-painting over the women appearing in the ads or physically slashing them out, and sometimes the billboard companies refuse to run ads with women’s photos in specific locations. This even happened to Tzipi Livni when she ran for Prime Minister – unbeknownst to her, the campaign ads ran without her picture in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. When she learned of that, she had all ads removed (instead of making a feminist/secular point by taking the billboard company to court and making it run the ads with the photo.)
Recently, a billboard for TV show Shavua Sof on the border of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan was misogynybusted. Blogger Klaradoma decided to adbust that adbusting to make a point, so she took some paint and turned the crude deletions into burqas.
