Why Did a Hasidic Newspaper Photoshop Women Out of a Pic?
Dear Jew in the City,
I would like to know what your thoughts are on the recent articles about the newspaper Hamevaser’s photoshopping of female leaders out of the photo of the French Unity March in Paris the other day. By the way, I love your site and I’ve gained a lot of insight into how to be a more observant reform convert.
For the past 2 years, I’ve been stalked on reddit, 4chan, tumblr and various other websites. These people have a whole forum dedicated to me, spreading lies about me, and stalking my friends and family in efforts to “finding my nudes” which do not EXIST! First of all its CHILD PORNOGRAPHY (real or fake) and second of all its just not what kind of person I am. So what these people ended up doing was cutting my face off of a selfie (from when I was 15 years old!) and photoshoppingit onto a naked body to make it seem like its me.
I was horrified when I saw the picture floating around tumblr with thousands of reblogs, my image is virtually ruined. I felt panicked thinking what if my parents or school saw that and thought it was real!? how could they ever get that image of me out of their head? How can I?
This misogynistic obsession with exposing young girls naked pictures needs to stop. I dont even know how to properly address this because it freaks me out, but I just want to make this post to warn people that this could happen to anyone, be careful what you see and post online. I don’t know what to do at this point except put this out there to clear my name.
these unusual birds are red factor african greys. the typical plumage for an african grey is a full-bodied grey with the only red being on the tail. these birds have only been recorded in captivity, and are the result of extensive breeding for their color mutation.
My brain refuses to read this as real color and will only see a red layer photoshopped over regular birds. But I just looked it up and it appears to be real so??
they’re definitely photoshopped (the red color comes off the body in some places) but honestly the fact there’s a whole website dedicated to breeding these fake birds is killing me
ok apparently red factor african greys DO exist but they don’t look like these and these pictures are photoshopped
these are real ones and honestly that makes this even funnier
Red factor greys come in a lot of varieties, given that it is a colour mutation and not a seperate species. Though most often it is only a small part of the bird that gets coloured, sometimes there is extremely high red factor because of selective breeding or just mutation.
A lot of the time it just affects chest and bellies, but sometime appears more on the back and the wings.
Fully red african greys still have texture and pattern to their plumage, which is often where the white boarder effect comes from. African grey feathers, as you’ll note on the birds above, have a small light grey/white ring around the edge of many of their their grey feathers and it becomes much more noticable against the red.
Some of the photos on the original site seem more genuine, but it looks like a breeder who is photoshopping their birds to be more red than they are to try to enhance business. Which… I mean seriously? Bad form.*
It’s particularly noticeable on their chick pictures, where they look far too uniform and a few places the red cutting to fleshy tone doesn’t look natural, is way too even and has a single pin feather bisected to be both grey and red. And a few others where they accidentally also coloured the bird’s beak and feet
It is a complete shame that one of the first sites to come up when you search for information on red factor african greys is a site that has photoshopped images and makes people think this mutation isn’t real. Because bird genetics and colour mutations are fascinating and I hate that an unscrupulous tactic almost stopped people from learning more about this neat occurrence!
*Typically big mutations like this come with side effects as well, like having a few random red feathers may be just a natural thing but selectively breeding for the mutation above all else can be damaging to the species in general and I wouldn’t recommend it at all personally. So it’s all bad form, but like… if you are breeding for this mutation then photoshopping your birds is even worse because it gives a false impression of what these wondrous things are.
