{"id":8623,"date":"2011-08-08T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muslimahmediawatch.org\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2011-08-08T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:00:46","slug":"iran-water-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mmw\/2011\/08\/iran-water-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Turns a Water Pistol Fight into an Islamic Wet t-Shirt Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I found it refreshing to see pictures of a young Iranians taking part in a water pistol fight<\/a> in Tehran in The Guardian.<\/em><\/p>\n

Until I realize that every single picture is of soaked women. Anyone else feel weirded out by this?<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the kind of side-eye I\u2019m talking about, sister. Image via Amir\/Demotix\/Corbis.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

I\u2019m confused as to why only women are featured (with the exception of one picture showing a man dumping a water bottle on a woman), since there are plenty of men in the background. The pictures have a sort of \u201cIslamic wet t-shirt contest\u201d feel to me.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong: I don\u2019t see anything wrong with a water pistol fight during a hot Tehran summer. According to Golnaz Esfandiari\u2019s post for Radio Free Europe<\/a>, \u201cThere were also gatherings for paintball, kite flying, and blowing bubbles. All the events are said to have been organized through Facebook.\u201d These all sound really fun. However, I definitely have a problem with the arrests of several people who participated<\/a> in the water fight\u2013throwing people in jail for trying to keep cool, have fun, and not hurt anybody is not okay.<\/p>\n

But since this is a media-focused blog, I have to bring up the fact that there aren\u2019t any men in the pictures used by The Guardian. <\/em>Since several pictures of this event turned up online, I doubt that there aren\u2019t any with men in them at all. It seems odd to only feature pictures of women, especially when you consider the layer added by the sexualized stereotype of Muslim women longing to rip of their veils and get sexy times on.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found it refreshing to see pictures of a young Iranians taking part in a water pistol fight in Tehran in The Guardian. Until I realize that every single picture is of soaked women. Anyone else feel weirded out by this? That\u2019s the kind of side-eye I\u2019m talking about, sister. Image via Amir\/Demotix\/Corbis. 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