Women disappearing in thin air – such as the removal by Brooklyn Hasidic Jewish newspapers of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security staff member Audrey Tomason from the picture of the White House Osama Bin Laden situation room. These orthodox Jewish newspapers insist that these pictures of women would be too sexually suggestive to men.
We owe a lot of our foremothers who worked hard to stop women from being blamed for men's inability to control their sexual urges. Those of us who are old enough remember when it was common for a woman to be blamed for being raped.
For many many years, men have used religion to keep their position on top of their hierarchies. That position allows them to assign responsibility of those on the bottom to change their lives (in this case Hillary and Audrey need to be absent) when those at the top do not want to be held accountable for their own actions (men being reasonable and responsible about their sexual urges).
