The delicate practice of airbrushing women right out of the picture is well known. Now we have the Swedish household goods maker Ikea removing a mom from her own bathroom to suit the way business is done in Saudi Arabia. But there’s more. This was apparently a large scale vanishing according to stories. A whole catalogue of women and girls were airbrushed out of the publication that was distributed in the Arabian oil state. “We are looking into the issue and holding a dialogue with our Saudi franchise holder,” said Ulrika Englesson Sandman, a spokeswoman for Inter Ikea Systems. After the killing of Osuma bin Laden, a Yiddish newspaper airbrushed Hillary Clinton and another official woman out of pictures of the U.S. government team watching the mission unfold by satellite. Women, girls airbrushed from Ikea catalogue
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The delicate practice of airbrushing women right out of the picture is well known. Now we have the Swedish household goods maker Ikea removing a mom from her own bathroom to suit the way business is done in Saudi Arabia. But there’s more. This was apparently a large scale vanishing according to stories. A whole catalogue of women and girls were airbrushed out of the publication that was distributed in the Arabian oil state. “We are looking into the issue and holding a dialogue with our Saudi franchise holder,” said Ulrika Englesson Sandman, a spokeswoman for Inter Ikea Systems. After the killing of Osuma bin Laden, a Yiddish newspaper airbrushed Hillary Clinton and another official woman out of pictures of the U.S. government team watching the mission unfold by satellite. 