Happy Sunday! Hope everybody is enjoying lazing around.. mine consisted of an early morning work trip, but hoping to make up on lost time now..
(Oh and I am quite happy that I have had 72 views.. yayy somebody is reading!)
I am pretty ecstatic today that I have come home from work to find that Saudi Arabia has given women the right to vote. To be honest this should have come into practice a very long, long, long time ago but nevertheless progress is being made. It is a tad obvious that it was done because the media spotlight is shining over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world, and King Abdullah wants to appear like a just ruler. I guess I really shouldn't over scrutinize the motives and instead concentrate on what next for women in Saudi Arabia...
More importantly,
"Now it is time to remove other barriers like not allowing women to drive cars and not being able to function, to live a normal life without male guardians"
because the truth is women already drive but in blacked out cars and in actual fact CAN function without men so by disturbing their daily routine it does not actually benefit anyone. I guess what I am trying to say (and I know I talk a lot of gibberish before I reach my conclusion) is that actually it just makes sense to give women the vote, the freedom to drive and to live normal lives without continuous barriers. That's not to say I don't think of male guardians as protectors, I do and I would like to stress the importance of 'protection'.. we just should not blur the lines between 'protection' and 'oppression'..
I hope that King Abdullah will stick to his promise and build on the necessary freedoms for all..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/25/saudi-arabia-women-vote-elections
And because it is Sunday I may just treat you all to another blog later xx
(Oh and I am quite happy that I have had 72 views.. yayy somebody is reading!)
I am pretty ecstatic today that I have come home from work to find that Saudi Arabia has given women the right to vote. To be honest this should have come into practice a very long, long, long time ago but nevertheless progress is being made. It is a tad obvious that it was done because the media spotlight is shining over Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world, and King Abdullah wants to appear like a just ruler. I guess I really shouldn't over scrutinize the motives and instead concentrate on what next for women in Saudi Arabia...
More importantly,
"Now it is time to remove other barriers like not allowing women to drive cars and not being able to function, to live a normal life without male guardians"
because the truth is women already drive but in blacked out cars and in actual fact CAN function without men so by disturbing their daily routine it does not actually benefit anyone. I guess what I am trying to say (and I know I talk a lot of gibberish before I reach my conclusion) is that actually it just makes sense to give women the vote, the freedom to drive and to live normal lives without continuous barriers. That's not to say I don't think of male guardians as protectors, I do and I would like to stress the importance of 'protection'.. we just should not blur the lines between 'protection' and 'oppression'..
I hope that King Abdullah will stick to his promise and build on the necessary freedoms for all..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/25/saudi-arabia-women-vote-elections
And because it is Sunday I may just treat you all to another blog later xx
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