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Saudi Women Behind Wheels: THE END OF VIRGINTY AND MARRIAGE AND STUFF.

I just read this bogus article about women’s driving rights in Saudi Arabia and it just made me cringe and laugh and want to throw heavy things ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

So, in what has become a global news bonanza, Saudi women are now heavily campaigning for their legal right to drive in Saudi Arabia and gain more liberties in their own country. The Saudi Arabian government is currently in between all kinds of debates and discussions about this issue and, as of today, its still under consideration.

Now here’s the hilarity: An ACADEMIC man who considers himself RELIGIOUS just submitted a report to the Saudi Arabian legislative assembly which states that if women were allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia it would mean THE END OF CHASTITY AND VIRGINITY. His report states that if women were allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia then divorce rates would go up, and promiscuity and homosexulaity would become a social norm.

When I first read this I was drinking some Sprite and from the sheer amount of laughter mixed with utter shock THE SPRITE FLEW OUT OF MY NOSE!

I don’t even know where to begin. The “academic” who bears absolutely no relation to logic or rational thought? The “religious” claim that actually ignores the fact that the Qur’an, Islamic teachings, and Shari’a law say absolutely NOTHING about banning women’s rights to self-sufficiency and social equality (which in this case INCLUDES driving)? Or (and this is the kicker) maybe the part where they’re trying to regulate people’s behavior and their personal choice by limiting a women’s TECHNICAL ability to get from Point A to Point B herself?

But of course! If a man can drive and his wife can’t, he definitely will not divorce her. ADOY. Can’t you see the logical relevance of these two obviously rational points? And hey! How do YOU know that a woman (and only a woman) getting behind the wheel won’t effect the sexual orientation of totally random strangers who make these big life choices all by themselves and based on their own psychological and physical experiences? HOW, I SAY. And don’t you know that Saudi Arabia is a wholesome, completely chaste country in which none of this promiscuity and relationship riffraff happens? RIGHT, RIGHT? Those women in their cars shall destroy our pristine chastity and wreak promiscuous havoc!

Okay I have to stop because laughing this hard is now starting to HURT MY FACE. Here’s praying that someone on Saudi Arabia’s legislative assembly employs some actual rationale and some logical thought to this issue and sees that these women are asking for a normal, essential need which does nothing but allow them to enjoy a higher level of personal liberty which, in the end, can only make Saudi Arabia better and more open to positive development.

All my love!

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