Tuesday 11 October 2011

Degrading images of women on display on Tehran’s metro

http://www.shahrzadnews.org/index.php?page=2&articleId=2884

The “Men Are Not Allowed In” series of images include titles like ‘dear mommy’, ‘teacher’, ‘nice and clean’, ‘sun tanned’, ‘student’, ‘the villager’, and so on, which are seen by many Iranian women, and men, as degrading and a government propaganda to turn women into submissive citizens.

Shahrzad News: A series of cartoon images of women drawn by Elham Ataei, previously shown in a gallery in Tehran, have now been displayed digitally on the city’s underground carriages which are identical with the way the regime views the Iranian women population.

The “Men Are Not Allowed In” series of images include titles like ‘dear mommy’, ‘teacher’, ‘nice and clean’, ‘sun tanned’, ‘student’, ‘the villager’, and so on, which are seen by many Iranian women, and men, as degrading and a government propaganda to turn women into submissive citizens.

In one image an uneducated village dweller is depicted as an equal with a highly educated woman, while in another cartoon an unemployed woman is shown as a burden on her husband.

Public transport in Iran is sex segregated and men must sit in front of the buses and women in the back, while the metro carriages are separated for males and females only.




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