re: #229 Charles Johnson

Here’s an article about that photo of female Iranian journalists sitting on the floor in a room full of men seated on chairs: Female Journalists Sitting on Floor in Iran an Illustration of Gender Inequality?

As CL has pointed out, there are some women seated but they have mostly been cropped out of the picture.

There are a bunch of men standing so it’s just as likely these ladies arrived late and all the seats were taken.

Iran probably does not have a tradition of men offering their seat to a lady—that tradition has largely been abandoned even in the US.

In the Mehr News Agency photo, you can see the edge of a women’s dress in the lower right corner where she was cropped out of the photo, and in the second photo these is a woman seated on the left who has also been partially cropped out.