Saudi Arabia

So I was googling one thing or another when I found a post about the abject horror of a reporter in Saudi who was female and was therefore not permitted to stay in the men's section of Starbucks, umm boo hoo hoo. Now what grabbed my attention wasn’t the article itself, but the comments. Apparently us clit slicing, camel shagging, oil guzzling barbarians are in need of rescue by none other then the police of the world Americans. Why? I'll tell you why, you see we don’t have brain cells otherwise why of WHY would be segregate between the sexes, why, for the love of god why?? Would we not allow women to drive? Damn it to hell and back don’t you see?!?! We are incapable of taking care of ourselves, we are moronic fools with no brain cells, we live in tents and have harems only cause we're too animalistic to do anything about it.
Had enough sarcasm??

Juuuuuust so we're clear, Saudi is not a bunch of tents stuck together with roaming camels, men in turbans singing "Allah o akbar" raping women cause its their right and having a harem of no less then 20. Oh and we don’t circumcise our women, man that’s just nasty and wrong on too many levels. Woman are not locked up at home and any who are is a matter of the family culture not the country, still with me? Good. We're not backwards you morons, we're conservative, i.e. if you want to go and mingle with the opposite sex you go to a specific place. The idea of having places segregated is that the majority of Saudi's are families, therefore no mingling required. Women driving is a no brainer its happening, you going *gasp shock horror* does nothing constructive but have you judge us. Now my more important point is, since when do you get off judging ppl, "close starbucks!! They shouldn’t support them by opening families sections" umm excuse me? I aint complaining, and I need my coffee so seriously man GET LOST I didn’t hire anyone to be my speaker.

For those of you who are still convinced we are an oppressed nation and us poor poor woman need to be taught how to fight back and if not well go ahead and fight for us, let me give you a little review of what a regular day in Riyadh is like. Now yesterday I wake up make my coffee (Nescafe Gold, if your wondering ;) get dressed put my 3abaya on (if its too horrific to think about this about it as a jacket) pick up my little angel get in my chauffeured car aka driver included, drop my girl off and go to work. By 1:30 I'm having lunch from subway with the girls, then go back to work and leave at 4:30 go home relax, take a shower, get dressed, wait for the driver to take me to the Chinese place since I invited the girls out. Get there around 9:45 and leave around 12 get home get online, check my facebook and hotmail then his the sack by 2am.

OH MY GOD WHAT HORROR HOW CAN I LIVE A LIFE SO OPPRESSED AAAAHHHHHH!!!!

Oh maybe another example, hmm well after work (same routine) My mum calls and says "yallah leave work im in the car with the driver" so I leave and we go shopping, we go to the mall next to where I work get me a few shirts from "New Look" and mum from "M&S" then I grab me some cookies (mmm Bens Cookies, very yum) go home, my parents, and watch the Olympics munching on cookies and discussing why the hell the Saudi Equestrian team isn’t doing their job.
My point is, some ppl have no knowledge about what goes on in our life yet they deem it there right to judge and be almighty. We're different hell yeah, being different from what you think is right doesn’t make us bad or wrong it makes us US. Deal with it and butt out.