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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (70770)10/20/2003 6:09:09 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (3) of 70976
 
I see that someone else has already taken you up on this :) The answer is yes though not in the sense that you are thinking. The mere idea that a woman can bring you down single handedly and make you a pariah in the society though her very simple actions cannot be a comforting thought. Neither is the idea of killing your own daughter, sister, or wife. You seem to think that, in a society with very strong family ties, such decision will be as easy of having a glass of water. You should try harder to identify with the pressures that this culture puts on the men as well as the women. The bottom line is that "honor killing" is very costly to both sexes, albeit more so to the woman.

Anything worth truly having is also worth dieing for. Saudi women can force change on their society with considerably less casualties than a foreigner would have to inflict on them to force the change. Alternatively they can choose the slower and safer path by raising their children to be more open minded. Or eventually they will realize that a global economy means you cannot stay competitive by keeping half of your society out of the loop.

Any of these methods is considerably superior to any kind of western feminism lectures and foreign pressure on them to change. BTW, you do realize that Saudis are by no means representative of the middle east or even of Arabs, which is what the original discussion was about.
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