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superpatriotman

(6,249 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2012, 01:03 PM Oct 2012

IKEA regrets deleting women from Saudi version of catalog

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/ikea-saudi-arabia-catalogue_n_1928635.html

Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets.

Comparing the Swedish and Saudi versions of the Ikea catalogue, Sweden's free newspaper Metro on Monday showed that women had been airbrushed out of otherwise identical pictures showcasing the company's home furnishings.

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IKEA regrets deleting women from Saudi version of catalog (Original Post) superpatriotman Oct 2012 OP

Sears used to do that on versions of their catalogs marybourg Oct 2012 #1

What a backward sorry country. Why do they use an excuse of religion for hating women? southernyankeebelle Oct 2012 #2

marybourg

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1. Sears used to do that on versions of their catalogs

Reply to superpatriotman (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 01:26 PM

Oct 2012

sent to the South. Before the days of photoshopping, of course. They simply had a few black models for northern versions of the catalog, and substituted a white model for the same item going to the South.

southernyankeebelle

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2. What a backward sorry country. Why do they use an excuse of religion for hating women?

Reply to superpatriotman (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2012, 01:36 PM

Oct 2012

There is nothing wrong with the woman on the cover. Are men over there so afraid of women?

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