Feminists - would you like to live in Saudi Arabia?
1. Female births are not registered. 2. Women cannot vote. 3. Women cannot drive. 4. Women must be fully veiled in public. 5. Polygamy is legal 6. Middle aged men marrying 16, 17, 18 yr olds is the norm. 7. You will most likely marry your father's friend or business associate. 8. You will be bought from your parents for a bride price (Mahr) depending on how young/beautiful you are. 9. Your husband will marry many more women after you. 10. Older wives must instruct the younger wives on pleasing their husbands 11. All women must remain νirgins until deflοwered by their husbands. 12. Men can initiate the divorce process for any reason at any time by saying 'I divorce thee' 3 times in a row 13. Women must remain beautiful. Otherwise your conjugal visits with your husband will be cancelled in favor of the more beautiful wives. 14. Women must remain young. Otherwise your conjugal visits with your husband will be cancelled in favor of the younger wives 15. Women do not have the right to refuse seΧ. Martial raape laws do not exist. 16. Women must remove their pυbic hair as part of the fitrah so that their privates are pleasing to their husbands. Some of these are real sharia laws and some of these are cultural norms.
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I don't understand the point of this question: no woman wants to live like that, unless she has no other choice. Although, polygamy could have prospects. While I date men, I think if I were in Saudi Arabia, I would explore the possibility of dating the other wives. I always wondered about that - what do the husbands do if the wives decide to have open sexual relations? And don't mind him joining? It would make his job (read sexual performance) less demanding, don't you think?
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Funny.... this seems to be what right wingers are real interested in these days - after buying oil from these guys for decades and not caring... suddenly we're all up in arms about their "SHARIA" rules. And it all seems to come out of FOX FAKE "News"..... One wonders why???? What do they hope to gain by getting people all self-righteous about the Arab nation??
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Saudi Arabians don't even like living in Saudi Arabia. The repressive regime there is petrified that an Egypt-style popular revolution could take place: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/03/saudi_arabaia_yemen.html
4 :
No, of course not. Did you really need to ask this question?????
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And one wonders why Middle East countries can't stay at peace for more than a couple months. I think you can judge a country by how they treat their women. Middle East countries stink. BTW question writer, you were created by a woman.
6 :
I dunno about you, but I already knew most of this sh!t.
7 :
sure
8 :
17. Women can be forced to use Microsoft Windows. Actually, Saudi Arabia is probably a great place for Feministsâ„¢. They have a lot of things to fix there.
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