{"id":35284,"date":"2017-09-28T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T22:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35284"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T22:25:33","slug":"the-global-war-against-women-humane-saudi-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=35284","title":{"rendered":"The global war against women: humane Saudi breakthrough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I had to mention this, didn’t I? But rather than link to mainstream articles about, hey wow! Saudi Arabia is getting hip about women!, Kevin Underhill’s tone is more concordant with mine.<\/p>\n

Let me once again tell you what I think. Religions, especially fundamentalist branches of religions, have one passionate, vicious purpose: suppressing women’s right to be fully regarded as human beings equal to men.<\/p>\n

That’s what religion is about, and that is all it is about. Don’t give me your ideas about god, morality or purpose in life, or anything else.<\/p>\n

When you tell me you believe in god, you worship a god, then you’re telling me you believe women are scary, are threatening to your supremacy and must be dominated and controlled.<\/p>\n

Source: Posts from Lowering the Bar for 09\/27\/2017<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Saudi Government Says It Will Let Women Drive<\/h2>\n

Sep 27, 2017 05:09 am | Kevin<\/h4>\n

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After what seems to have been a very lengthy and careful analysis, considering all kinds of equations and variables and close scrutiny of many sacred texts, or whatever, the Saudi monarchy announced Tuesday<\/a> that a \u201cmajority of senior scholars\u201d had concluded it would, in fact, be okay with Allah if women were allowed to drive internal-combustion vehicles. Therefore, as of June 2018, it will finally be legal for them to do that in Saudi Arabia.<\/em><\/p>\n

That is, it will apparently take nine more months of careful analysis and study for these geniuses to figure out just how to implement this monumental change.<\/em><\/p>\n

They could just hand over the goddamn keys and calm down about it, because women have been driving in Saudi Arabia despite the ban for some time now. That was sometimes a risky endeavor, not because they weren\u2019t good drivers but because men might see them and get offended, for whatever reason that offended them.\u00a0See, e.g.,\u00a0\u201cSaudi Creeps Arrest Female Drivers<\/a>\u201d (June 30, 2011) and \u201cSaudi King Cancels Whipping of Female Driver<\/a>\u201d (Sept. 30, 2011). The king who canceled the whipping was that bleeding-heart liberal King Abdullah; this one is King Salman, who I think is Abdullah\u2019s brother, but I don\u2019t seem to care enough to find out for sure. If you do, or for some reason have an interest in the difference between fraternal agnatic seniority and agnatic primogeniture, please feel free to click here<\/a>\u00a0and then engage in further clicking behavior until you know the answer. Then, you may smile quietly to yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0pointed out, it is not yet clear whether women will be able to drive without a male \u201cguardian\u201d in the vehicle with them, since they are currently not even allowed to leave their homes without one. These are probably among the difficult questions the umpteen brothers and sons and grandsons of ibn Saud will be debating between now and June of next year, though I imagine the first eight months will probably be spent just trying to remember everybody\u2019s name.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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