{"id":320,"date":"2011-09-27T13:04:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colombotelegraph.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-09-27T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:04:59","slug":"too-hot-for-politics-canadian-tamil-mp-at-centre-of-photoshopping-controversy-after-cleavage-is-mysteriously-retouched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/too-hot-for-politics-canadian-tamil-mp-at-centre-of-photoshopping-controversy-after-cleavage-is-mysteriously-retouched\/","title":{"rendered":"Too hot for politics? Canadian Tamil MP at centre of Photoshopping controversy after cleavage is mysteriously retouched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Colombo Telegraph<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_321\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rathika-2-colombo-telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321\" title=\"Rathika 2 - colombo telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rathika-2-colombo-telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">after<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_322\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rathika-1-colombo-telegraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322\" title=\"Rathika 1 - colombo telegraph\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rathika-1-colombo-telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">before<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She\u2019s the first Canadian Tamil MP and the standard bearer for young women in a male dominated political culture. But rising member of Parliament, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, 29, is at the centre of an too hot to handle.<br \/>\nAccording to political blog Contrarian, an enterprising reader performed an image search for Sitsabaiesan and came across the thumbnail.<br \/>\nBut when the reader clicked through to Sitsabaiesan\u2019s official Parliamentary profile, he found a modified version of the headshot, which had been retouched to edit out her feminine curves.<br \/>\nCanada\u2019s conservative politicos apparently decided that the photo was inappropriate for a workplace as formal as Parliament.<br \/>\nBut critics argue that the alteration was anti-feminist, and that that the cleavage was removed to make Sitsabaiesan appear less womanly.<br \/>\nIt is not known if the cropping was requested by her party, her own office, or on the Parliamentary website\u2019s own authority.<\/p>\n<p>See the deference here;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoriginalgreenwichdiva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rathika-sitsabaiesan-altered-photo.bmp\">http:\/\/theoriginalgreenwichdiva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rathika-sitsabaiesan-altered-photo.bmp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2042177\/Canadian-MP-Rathika-Sitsabaiesan-centre-Photoshopping-controversy.html#ixzz1Z9jiIkwU\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2042177\/Canadian-MP-Rathika-Sitsabaiesan-centre-Photoshopping-controversy.html#ixzz1Z9jiIkwU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,1],"tags":[1192,1193,6988,6993,1150],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-politics","category-global-politics","category-news","tag-canada","tag-feminist","tag-gender-politics","tag-rathika-sitsabaiesan","tag-tamils"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Too hot for politics? 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