A few words about the various controversies surrounding that Situation Room picture.

Since 2001, the Interwebs and Photoshop have evolved to the point where parody shit like the shots of Obama with a video game handset become obligatory.

And erasures of powerful Western women from the photo by groups of Medieval patriarchal asshats who don't like the idea of women having power—even if it's not Bad Motherfucker power—are the same thing. Changing the image to either ridicule or recast it to fit their own worldview.

But such ridicule or revision is necessary only because an image becomes powerful/iconic due to how it seems to capture the immediacy of a situation. In this case, a situation in the Situation Room.

And then people begin to alter/edit/amend it in order to fit it to their own humorous or bullshit situations, their own power dymamics. But whether it's mockery or misogyny, either way, that doesn't happen without the power of the original photo.

And one thing I didn't point out about the Bad Motherfuckers in the Situation Room since I've been so remiss on Slog about the Mariners and the Cubs and Silva and Bradley:

Two of the Bad Motherfuckers are from Chicago. As is the woman erased by the asshats.