Shameful: women journalists sitting on the floor while the men are seated in the new #Iran FM inauguration pic.twitter.com/Sszi2nA67r
— RezaAsadi (@RezaAsadi) August 18, 2013
My question: Why is "shameful," with a capital S, the best descriptor of the above situation which is quite common in busy, disorganized, state-sponsored ceremonies of Iran?
Aren't professional journalists supposed to improvise and such to do their news gathering. Professional journalists are indeed stubborn creatures who venture to flooded regions, quake scenes, war zones and even more dangerous places to cover news and basically do their job. So, someone tells me why and how when a group of female journalists improvise to sit on the floor instead of standing in the back of the hall or next to the walls this becomes shameful and an embarrassment for the shameless government of Iran? (Maybe there was no vacant space in either back or next to the walls!)
Aren't professional journalists supposed to improvise and such to do their news gathering. Professional journalists are indeed stubborn creatures who venture to flooded regions, quake scenes, war zones and even more dangerous places to cover news and basically do their job. So, someone tells me why and how when a group of female journalists improvise to sit on the floor instead of standing in the back of the hall or next to the walls this becomes shameful and an embarrassment for the shameless government of Iran? (Maybe there was no vacant space in either back or next to the walls!)
Above tweet is from an Iranian journalist who has worked with BBC, and has been included in my list of tweeps who tweet about Iran and are not asshole. This other tweet is from another featured Iranian member of my list of non-assholes, and somebody I consider a friend on twitter:
Did none of these men offer these female reporters their seat at introduction of Iran's new FM? pic.twitter.com/UKtRxAwuE7Another one from a journalist (he's Afghan as far as I know), who writes passionately about human rights, in particular, women's rights:
— Arash Karami (@thekarami) August 17, 2013
No respect. RT @thekarami Did none of these men offer these female reporters their seat at intro of Iran's new FM? pic.twitter.com/TPutMFLDRL
— Josh Shahryar شهريار (@JShahryar) August 17, 2013
The amazing part is when Arash Karami tweets in reply to Josh Shahryar:
@JShahryar @Peymasad plenty of secular men are chauvinists in Iran, it's a cultural issueIf anything, what Arash Karami tweets in his reply to Josh Shahryar is totally accurate in my opinion, but how is that comment of any relevance to a bunch of journalist who are seated on the floor for lack of space. Let's see other pictures of this ceremony:
— Arash Karami (@thekarami) August 17, 2013
Does it seem to you there was enough space in that hall?!
