Saudi Arabian Women Allowed to Drive After 75 Year Ban
January 22, 2008Although I sometimes complain about the U.S., the truth of the matter is, I certainly would not want to live anywhere else. America has actually been very good to me. Everything I’ve wanted and worked for, I’ve gotten. No one has ever tried to stop me based on gender or race or anything else.
The women in Saudi Arabia are pitiful. After 75 years, they finally have been given the basic human right to drive. Can you imagine that? I love the freedom of hopping in my car and going about my business. Check this article:
Government officials in Saudi Arabia have confirmed a landmark decision to give women the right to drive in that country. The move would see an end to more than 75 years of curtailing women drivers, though its being characterized by some as a way to forestall campaigns for greater freedom by women.
The Saudi royal family has stopped short of granting women driving privileges for years, saying that there wasn’t full public support for the change. Recently though, slightly more progressive attitudes towards women have worked their way into the public consciousness, and more importantly the royal court.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:30 am
Ok, clearly not a country I need to be in as I am a driving sistah for years. I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but 10 years ago, I drove a van in a presidential motorcade when I worked for the federal govt. Why did they do that to me???? The rush of being able to drive on a highway at 90 miles per hour with no traffic (because the entire roadway is shut down) is the best rush ever!!!!! We need another democrat in office who will let me handle a motorcade van!
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
I believe that America should mind it’s own business and stop worrying about what goes on in other countries. This sounds strictly like an Saudi Arabian issue to me. Some of these countries has had their laws in existence long before those holy rolling criminal “pilgrims” came to America.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
It is ironic that you use the moniker “Escaped Slave”. The women in Saudi Arabia are little more than slaves to the society in which they live. You would think that an “Escaped Slave” would have more sympathy than that.
BTW, that is what the slave masters told folks who argued against slavery in this country too. “mind your own business”.