For an IKEA catalog in Saudi Arabia, they used all the same images from their regular catalog but removed women from the photos because Sauds are scared of women. It’s kind of like if you were making an IKEA catalog for cavemen, you’d remove images of fire so as not to scare the cavemen with the evil flame demon. Actually, it’s pretty much exactly like that.
“Unga bunga. Me trade you stylish desk lamp for oil.”
Maybe we need to start making some steps to start pushing Saudi Arabia to not be so offensively backwards… but do it subtly. Like change the name of the part of the State Department that deals with them to “The Caveman Division.” Perhaps we can explain every simple thing to them carefully like they’re children. “This is an iPhone. Not evil spirit. Contains angry birds, but they will not harm you. Only hurt pigs.”
It just seems like we need to do something other than pretend this is all normal, as it gets rather insulting to us to have to stoop to their level.
Yes it would be nice if they could move from the seventh century to at least the fourteenth or maybe even the fifteenth century. That would be an improvement.
I love how feminists never ever want to care about something like this. When they’re forced to see women who live in a truly oppressive society, where their lives are in danger if they disobey the men who essentially own them, it’s fascinating to watch their brains try to get a handle on the cognitive dissonance between women’s rights (actual, inalienable rights that women are being denied in muslim countries around the world) and the rest of their liberal philosophy that’s telling them not to criticize other cultures.
Nah, they’d rather protest about how they can’t afford $9/month birth control. Taking a stand and making an actual difference in the lives of women? That’s crazy-talk, for crazy-people to do.
They also had to remove an image of a giant stack of ribs because Saudis are afraid they’ll make their cars tip over.
As we continue on, they seem more and more like the death cult in “Gunga Din,” don’t they? “KILL FOR THE LOVE OF KALI!” (insert Allah for Kali)
What if we took all the feminists in the US and sent them to SA? Not sure who would win that battle, but we would solve at least one of the problems.
Frank, maybe we should start with our own President:
Obama Camp Reduces Women to the Sum of Their Reproductive Organs
We’d have done better in Afghanistan if we’d armed and trained the women there and left the men at home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e6n1ODDth4
“See, ladies? that’s how you do it! And if those troglodytes give you anymore trouble, call us!”