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    DizzyDeanedMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 1:34pm

    Saudi Arabia is our biggest enemy. Their brand of Islam is killing and enslaving countless people around the world.

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      The StagDizzyDeaned
      12/12/15 1:50pm

      They are pretty much part responsible for most shit (sorry for the expression, but it’s the most fitting one) going on in the world now. Of course they’re on place number two after us, because we enable them to do it.

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      dinnerateightDizzyDeaned
      12/12/15 2:04pm

      To be fair, extreme Conservative Christianity within our own borders isn’t exactly a picnic either.

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    ThrumbolioMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 2:27pm

    So they’re still largely cattle, but voting cattle.

    Baby steps!

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      Vox PopulistThrumbolio
      12/12/15 3:53pm

      There are about 80 years between women’s right to vote and spousal rape being outlawed in several Western nations that I can think of. That’s three generations from voting rights to the last vestiges of legal discrimination being removed from the law books.

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      dinnerateightThrumbolio
      12/12/15 4:14pm

      It really wasn’t that long ago when women were ‘voting cattle’ here, too. In fact, it was my grandmother’s generation that got the right to vote.

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    LizMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 3:30pm

    “During the election, female candidates weren’t allowed to speak directly with male voters, needing to campaign through male stand-ins or from behind a partition.”

    It’s almost funny how their need to control and censor women seems more fearful than powerful. They have hyper-sexualized their views of women so much that they are afraid to even look at them while they speak, EVEN THOUGH they are already covered head-to-toe. I’m glad they are able to vote, but I do wonder if they will even bother counting the votes...

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      Vox PopulistLiz
      12/12/15 4:06pm

      These laws achieve the ultimate level of douchebaggery for being both mysogynistic and misandric at the same time.

      As a man I’ve always found the “she was asking for it” argument tremendously insulting. It’s not just victim blaming against women, but also sexist against men, because it insinuates that we are some kind of natural brutes who just can’t help ourselves to go rapey rapey whenever we see an “insufficiently” dressed (whatever standards any given culture applies here) woman. It pretty much removes all agency from men, the ability to make their own choices and be fully accountable and responsible for them.

      If Eve convinced Adam to eat the apple, what does that say about Adam other than he’s a weakling? And that’s just what these men and their so-called culture are: Weak. The need for control of others is always rooted in weakness and a lack of self confidence.

      Deep down, they are terribly afraid of women. And of the anima / yin / female side within themselves. Hence the need for uber-macho behavior, hence the hatred for homosexuals that mirrors their hatred of women.

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      BurningStomachLiberalVox Populist
      12/12/15 4:45pm

      Well said. Turns out patriarchal thinking is as misandrist as it is misogynist. Not to downplay your insight there, but isn’t this what feminism has been saying forever?

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    tornadoslackssMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 1:35pm

    So apparently Saudi Arabian women still have it better than the Duggar girls.

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      Chester the Dogtornadoslackss
      12/12/15 2:01pm

      You can’t tell but I am applauding. At least these Saudi women are allowed free thought.

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      NopeNawChester the Dog
      12/12/15 4:24pm

      LOL...that is fucking sad and true.

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    Max CherryMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 2:05pm

    Uh, not to be off topic, but this is two days now without a Kristin story. I’m sure we all take the subject of civil rights seriously. But at the expense of the daily Kristin updates? That’s a little bit radical, don’t you think? Her brother was found dead, for crying out loud. She NEEDS us. And instead we’re doing all of this rabble rousing over women being allowed to vote or something.

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      MyGFisTammy1Max Cherry
      12/12/15 2:20pm

      The only possible reasoning is Gawker saying “maybe we should stop mocking this arbitrary D-list celebrity now that she’s experiencing extreme personal tragedy”

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      Jerry-NetherlandMax Cherry
      12/12/15 2:24pm

      It was appropriate to lay off her. Her brother died in a tragic circumstance this week. I wondered if Gawker would lay off, and they’re right to have done so.

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    e.nonMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 1:44pm

    perhaps in another 100 years, saudi women can force thru legislation where they will no longer be lashed for being a victim of rape.

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      Rhapsodye.non
      12/12/15 2:00pm

      Maybe in 150 years they can http://gawker.com/woman-fed-up-w…

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      dinnerateighte.non
      12/12/15 2:16pm

      We may not actually lash rape victims, but let’s not act like we provide even a significant portion of them with justice....

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    iGatsbyMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 1:57pm

    Such a historic day! Now the women can check off worthless peaces of paper same as the men! Ah, the life in a wonderful Absolute Monarchy.

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      crouching tigeriGatsby
      12/12/15 3:55pm

      Will their votes be tallied, though?

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    $kaycogMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 1:35pm

    Can’t drive, you say? Eff that!

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      rudi_freude$kaycog
      12/12/15 11:46pm
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    rudi_freudeMelissa Cronin
    12/12/15 11:46pm

    Women in Saudi Arabia Still Can’t Drive

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesMelissa Cronin
      12/13/15 12:51am

      needing to campaign through male stand-ins or from behind a partition.

      Partition, you say? I’m guessing not like this partition, huh?

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