Satirical Website Imagines: What if Feminists Had Edited the Paris March Picture?

Yesterday, we reported on how prominent female politicians such as Angela Merkel had mysteriously disappeared from a photo on the front page of Israeli newspaper The Announcer, a newspaper published for the Orthodox Jewish community.

Though German Chancellor Merkel was front and center at last Sunday’s historic Paris march, she was edited out for reasons of religious modesty: It’s traditional for Orthodox papers to avoid publishing or showing an image of a woman in order to maintain, as an Orthodox filmmaker explained to the New York Times, the “purity of eyes.”

Which led the Irish satirical website Waterford Whispers to ask: What if someone wanted to maintain the purity of the matriarchy?

Feminist Newspaper Photoshop's Male World Leaders Out Of Paris March #ParisMarch #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/puHfP9qEur

— Waterford Whispers (@WhispersNewsLTD) January 13, 2015

Good show, you potato-eating Papists. (We say that out of love and approval for what you have done.)

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