juxtaposition

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Ampersand

UPDATE: By request, here it is without the captions:

Original version after the cut.

Curtsy: Feministe (and Mom’s Tinfoil Hat for the post title).

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14 Responses to juxtaposition

  1. Myca says:
    January 30, 2009 at 1:37 am

    Wow. I actually got a little catch in my throat.

    —Myca

  2. SusanE says:
    January 30, 2009 at 4:31 am

    Wow, the picture says it all.

  3. MomTFH says:
    January 30, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Thanks for linking to me! Yes, juxtaposition is a cool word, and it is very appropriate in this situation. We need to learn to compare these things to reaffirm what has been very wrong with our government lately.

  4. Mandolin says:
    January 30, 2009 at 8:57 am

    Can I suggest you post these pictures without the COMPARE CONTRAST written on them? The difference is actually much starker and more frightening without the text over the men’s faces (and equally obvious as when one is being instructed to look for it.)

  5. Medea says:
    January 30, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Seconding Mandolin. The heads are important.

  6. Ampersand says:
    January 30, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Everyone’s a critic! :-P

    I liked the effect of turning the men behind Bush into an undifferentiated mass of expensive suits. But if you want to see the photo without the lettering, just follow the link to Feministe.

  7. Kevin Moore says:
    January 30, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    Adding to the contrast is the color of their suits. The power red is in vogue among women in Congress, while men are still sporting the drab grey funeral attire. One exception is Speaker Pelosi in a regal purple. I think it would be great if men in Congress started wearing more interesting colors.

    Or as Jello Biafra would have had it for businessmen in SF, clown suits.

  8. Myca says:
    January 30, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Who is the shorter woman on the left with the glasses?

    —Myca

  9. Tosh says:
    January 30, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    Contrast? Oh yea, oh yea.

  10. Tosh says:
    January 30, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Who is the shorter woman on the left with the glasses?

    Barbara Mikulski.

  11. Lilian Nattel says:
    January 30, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    Good picture. Though they all still are wearing suits. I’d add a picture of our own Prime Minister who recently undercut pay equity here.

  12. David Schraub says:
    January 30, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    Barbara Mikulski (my senior Maryland Senator) = total bad-ass. I saw her speak at a Ledbetter rally in the Senate swamp this summer. Blew the place away.

  14. The Daily Bitch says:
    January 31, 2009 at 10:15 am

    Great juxtaposition. Found your blog via twitter (have no idea exactly how that happened). But I love your blog – and am linking to it.

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