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To: one_less who wrote (218619)	2/15/2007 11:29:51 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have spoken to Saudis about this and their view of the benefits to men and women that afford equal status is quite different than it is in our culture, and there are some definite trade offs. Saudi women have told you that they and their sisters do not want to drive? I don't care if Saudi men tell you how wonderful women have it in Saudi A, but if you think Saudi women don't want to and don't think they should drive, I'll be surprised. And if that were the case, why the law? They wouldn't drive even if it were legal. For example it would be highly unusual to find a Saudi woman complaining about sexual harassment, or any kind of poor treatment from men except perhaps spouse abuse in some cases, Probably true, but I wonder if the same is true for Philippina, Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian women workers. I live in the ME and women get the hell harrassed out of them all the time. But not local women, they are off limits, non-local women get sexually harrassed daily. It is sexist up the wazoo. There are lots of other trade offs and the simple conclusion that American women have it great because of the freedom to drive while the Saudi women are hopelessly oppressed do to lack of this freedom is not born out in conversations with men and women from that culture. I would think the Saudi women would like to not be sexually harrassed (their current situation), and also drive. It remains that old men denying them the ability to drive is, in my opinion, wrong. Opposing that action by those old unelected men is.....right.