Posted on 06/19/2017 9:25:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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My comment is that “Saudi Arabia-based fashion authority” is an oxymoron.
Does anyone remember the Wendy’s Soviet Fashion Show commercial?
All of the things that we thought were so outrageously funny in the past, are now actually happening.
Life is asymptoting to Monty Python.
I guess these folks got tired of picking the lint out from between their toes, so they decided to write this.
Too seldom do we see the phrase, “asymptotial nothingness”.
(But I’ve used it here). :)
Too seldom do we see the phrase, “asymptotial nothingness”.
(But I’ve used it here). :)
Actually, the story is important if we’re ever to understand how wrong our urge to change other societies to be like us are. We justify most regime change wars with the excuse that the people are oppressed. Did any of the people in these countries we destroyed ask to be changed?
Yeah. Some abayas look like shower curtains, others like tablecloths. Some even resemble a tattered parlor rug. And for you traditionalist property ... er, I mean women ... there’s the venerable gunny-sack style.
The variety is endless.
They are not Saudi. They are Afghani. A whole different "look."
Did any of those women ask to be required to dress in those HOT black airless bags in a desert climate? Why don't the men have to hide themselves away? It's like a mobile prison you take with you everywhere. Combine that with female genital mutilation (that's voluntary by the girl?), being shut away from most of life, not being allowed to go out unaccompanied by a male, threat of death from being accused of adultery, being required to marry one's rapist, etc. I'm quite sure it was the men who thought of all these oppressive things, not the women. If the women comply, it's either from threat of dire punishment or brainwashing from their family.
According to the article, Saudi women have developed a fashion sense and are not unhappy with their dress restrictions.
I don't find the author of that article believable. How do you know they were not state-sponsored?
Research “Saudi fashion designers”. It’s for real.
On a related note, the best perfume in the world comes from Saudi Arabia. I buy fragrances for my wife whenever I travel to the Middle East and she always gets people asking her what she's wearing.
it's so hard to find here.
People forget, the abaya is only worn in public. Many well-to-do Arabs live in large houses surrounded by stone walls built so high that you cannot see inside the property from the street. Once away from the eyes of strangers, the abayas come off.
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