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Saudi Students In US Seek Segregation By Gender On Facebook
Beetle B. writes "A 22,000-member group for Saudis studying in the US on the social networking website Facebook has been split into two groups, one for women and one for men. The split follows a request from the group's female members who wanted extra privacy. The separate page for Saudi women is a valid decision. We took it to fulfill the wishes of the Saudi women in the US. We have been contacted by a lot of women asking for their private group,' Majed Aleid, media chair of the 'Saudis in the US' group, told Arab News in a letter."
Please unplug the fox news feed from your cerebral cortex, often its the women that want segregation. I know, I know, you can't fathom why the women would ever want to have a social life of their own without god's gift to women, i.e. men.
Culture determines what many consider freedoms let alone quality of life. What we may see as repressive others may see as comforting and safe. I am quite sure there are many rules in the good old U.S. of A. that are repressive to others in the world if not those who live here.
You are quite correct, but that doesn't make either case acceptable. Texas, for example, is filled with people who fear that allowing gay people to wed will somehow affect all the "normal", hetero Christian marriages. When pressed to explain how this might be, they'll eventually fall back to their holy book to defend their irrational fears. Same shit with Muslims who are afraid to allow a woman's body parts, like her hair, to be seen by adult males who are not her family.
Mind you, this is not an argument for depriving these poor people of their right to suffer in fear and ignorance, but is most definitely an argument for not allowing them to force it on anyone else. Ever.
They can only go into a group 3 days after a man starts it?
Next time you walk down your garden path on the way to the newsagents to collect your Daily Mail, take a look under your hedge - there's a paedophile hiding there.