She is employed(?) by the road safety department, and is head of the women’s affairs committee. Interesting double title, but it shows that she is a mouthpiece for the ruling government, giving them the “appearance” of being progressive about women’s issues, while making sure that what you hear, coming from a female mouth, is the same arcane bigotry.

Her job is to be the face women are supposed to trust while she tells them they have no good reason to be treated as equals.

There is a segment that doesn’t want responsibility and are more than happy to be a kept woman. So her response could be based on a trade off between freedom and responsibility.

Her response is what she is told to say, nothing more and nothing less. Your point is completely lost behind the real one, that Saudi woman CANNOT CHOOSE their comdition, kept or free. Given that lack of choice, certainly many will content themselves to a life of no responsibility, but don’t confuse that with happiness. When they have the opportunity to be independent, and THEN choose to be ‘kept’, it will be fair to assign some form of judgement to their decision. Not before then.

(And I don’t mean Allah.)

However, I will say this: is it just me or is this traditional woman fighting to not have rights (yep, that’s right, I said RIGHTS) owed to her not already wearing a TON of eyeliner?? Also, I believe the good doctor, who couldn’t put together a one minute speech on his “cause” w/out using notes and stuttering, may be afraid that if women are “allowed” their independence (gasp), they will prove themselves smarter than him???

amerpundit on June 6, 2007 at 9:51 AM
right2bright on June 6, 2007 at 9:18 AM

Just wanted our great conservative women to come out swinging.

I know the lib women won’t say a word, they support this type of lifestyle. Keep them covered up, keep them uneducated, keep them quiet, mutilate those parts of the body, that’s the way NOW wants them.

You ARE kidding, right???

Young Saudis must not have any self control….

You will be infuriated when you read how much we ontributed to Saudi Arabia only to be repaid with murderous treachery on Sep 11. It’s the first book you should read about Saudi Arabia.

The whole Saudi/US relationship makes no sense, and hasn’t for years. Yet one US president after another, of all political stripes, has made nice-nice with them. Let OBL take over, that way we have some good targets for our cruise missiles. And no, I don’t care if the price of oil skyrockets for a while, the cure for high prices is always high prices, especially with commodities. And if the price of slaughtering terrorists in large numbers is high oil prices and recession, so be it….well there go my chances of being President…or of going to Saudi Arabia.

There is a scene in “Saudi Arabia Exposed : Inside a Kingdom in Crisis” by John R. Bradley, where Bradley recounts watching a Saudi princess, considered a moderate, tell the Western media immediately after Sep 11 that the skyjackers were not Saudi. When she finished, she turned to Bradley and admitted they were Saudi and what a problem that was. Saudis are brazen liars. They lie to save face even when all the facts are against them and they know that you know they are lying.

If you want to learn more what it’s like to be a woman married to a Saudi and living in Saudi Arabia, I recommend
“Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia” by Carmen Bin Ladin. It’s good beach reading.

If you want to learn about the Saudi-American relationship, I recommend “Inside The Mirage: America’s Fragile Partnership with Saudi Arabia” by Thomas W. Lippman. Lippman tells the story through interviews with the people who were there. It’s very readable, unlike the academic histories of Saudi Arabia or the propaganda histories of Arab authors. You will be infuriated when you read how much we contributed to Saudi Arabia only to be repaid with murderous treachery on Sep 11. It’s the first book you should read about Saudi Arabia.

Why are there no convertibles in Saudi Arabia?

Because women are forbidden to drive around with their tops down….

Hisses and boo’s…..Man this is a tough tent!

Are so suggesting that all Muslim women and all Muslim men are exactly of the same mindset?

csdeven on June 6, 2007 at 11:55 AM

ok these so called “men” and women in the video’s

ChrisIansNana on June 6, 2007 at 10:52 AM

Are so suggesting that all Muslim women and all Muslim men are exactly of the same mindset?

Female species? Oh please tell me what is a KEPT woman???
Certainly not a stay at home mom. Need to get away? I didn’t work until all my children were in school and only worked the hours they were in school. My son’s wife stays home.

ChrisIansNana on June 6, 2007 at 10:32 AM

Not all women stay at home and there are women who want to be kept. The point was that the girl interviewed could be one of those types.

Anyhoo, it’s hard not to lol@a woman dissing other women for being bad drivers, that’s just classic. I admit it’d be funnier if there wasn’t a darker side to it, but nevertheless..

On a more serious note, I would agree with cs insofar as there are, amazingly, women in first-world countries out there with the same mentality towards many things

Well, given the state of things, perhaps not-so-amazingly. Somewhere along the line it became ‘empowering’ to dress up as male sex fantasies..

We also must not discount the universal nature of the female species. There is a segment that doesn’t want responsibility and are more than happy to be a kept woman. So her response could be based on a trade off between freedom and responsibility. I do think that once a woman starts to have kids, that attitude changes somewhat, as the need to get away for a few minutes is realized.

csdeven on June 6, 2007 at 10:04 AM

Female species? Oh please tell me what is a KEPT woman???
Certainly not a stay at home mom. Need to get away? I didn’t work until all my children were in school and only worked the hours they were in school. My son’s wife stays home.

And she’ll have fun, fun, fun till Achmed takes the T-bird away.

JackStraw on June 6, 2007 at 9:25 AM

She’s the little old lady from west Medina…

(Go granny go granny go granny go!)