[url]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-drive.html?mcubz=1[/url]
[quote]Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom.
The change, which will take effect in June of next year, was announced on state television and in a simultaneous media event in Washington. The decision highlights the damage that the no-driving policy has done to the kingdom’s international reputation and its hopes for a public relations benefit from the reform.[/quote]
Well fucking good. It will be some time before it becomes socially accepted unfortunately
A step in the right direction. Yet it will still take some decades before this whole sex division gets abandoned in SAU.
Kurds go through with an independence referndum and vote yes and Saudi Arabia ends ban on women driving - a good couple of days for the Middle East I must say.
Remember: change doesn't happen overnight. Don't expect too much. Celebrate small victories, like this.
Never forget.
[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=aZMbTFNp4wI[/media]
great now just stop beheading people
Wow. I guess Saudi Arabia is taking that Women's Rights gig at the UN seriously.
Coincidentally, reports of car accidents have sky rocketed.
Still got a long way to go yet, but still a great start nonetheless!
like it's good news but i don't get the concept of celebrating this insanely small win. they can drive themselves to their own stonings, i guess, but until human rights issues start getting sorted out over there i will celebrate nothing of saudi arabia.
[QUOTE=SIRIUS;52719863]Well fucking good. It will be some time before it becomes socially accepted unfortunately[/QUOTE] no, not really. The amount of people who want to drive here is huge, chauffeuring is very expensive after all and the only people who have issues with it are very very conservative. plus the freedom of driving in general
I think this is a huge step for us, this is probably the number one complaint besides being forced to wear abayas
Finally something good happens in this world of shit going wrong. Nice to hear that Saudi Arabia is going towards progress, one step at a time.
We're very likely to see much more of this sort of stuff happen in Saudi Arabia in the coming decades. Not because of some major social or cultural change, really, but because Saudi Arabia is forced to convert it's economy and political system to be more open, because the current system and economy cannot support the current birthrate, and one generation from now is gonna be an absolute shitshow if they don't, and they know that. If you wanna stay competitive without some ridiculous advantage that Saudi Arabia has had up until now, you need to get women out on the market too.
i've seen saudia dudes doing threatening snapchat videos to the women who wants to drive with beating them or damaging their car. most of them have been arrested thank god. now to stop al-saud for taking all of the saudia people money and calling the shots
[editline]3rd October 2017[/editline]
i remember when imams were making shit up as if why women cant drive;
"their ovaries hurt when they drive". "women get distracted because she uses quarter of her brain when she drives" "the pressure inside the car will make women faint and cause accidents"
some stupid bullshit that they spew to justify their king banning women driving while other people in the middle east were allowed women to drive way longer than them
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