Mom is blatantly missing from several family photo scenes in the Saudi version of Ikea’s latest catalogue because the women in these pics “show too much skin,” according to the Islamic Kingdom’s laws. A woman enjoying dinner with her husband on an Ikea dinner table was replaced by an empty Ikea table. Similarly, a woman in plaid pajamas helping her son brush his teeth in one of Ikea’s pristine bathrooms was Photoshopped out of the Saudi catalogue, leaving the child alone at the sink while her presumed husband towels down another boy in the corner. The Swedish furniture company has said “excluding women from the Saudi Arabian version of the catalogue is in conflict with the Ikea Group values” and that it was reviewing “routines” in response to backlash over the issue.

