I just wish people cared more.

Fuck yes for defiance; so sad that irl stories don’t always have happy endings. But every move in the right directions gets us closer.

It was just a thought.

I am trying to contact her.
It may be difficult to get them funds. They even have laws about women and banking.

The American Community Services (ACS) in Riyadh helps women in Saudi prisons. The women are there usually because they have been raped and impregnated by their employers. Feel free to contact me.

One of the things I do is boycott Baskin-Robbins ice cream. I tried to get a glass of water in a Baskin-Robbins store in Riyadh. They would not serve me because I was a woman.

But we won’t cut Cuba the same slack because we’re still pissed that they took land away from American businesses 50 years ago.

Hey, we have our values too.

Also, while I understand that human rights abuses are serious, I don’t think it’s worth jeopardizing our current relationship with China, where they’re actually *helping us* deal with countries like Iran and North Korea. Countries that want to toss bombs…but no, go ahead and keep blaming it on imports…it’s not like they own the largest chunk of our debt or anything.

And how, exactly, does having a military base in a foreign country make it a colony “de facto”? Does this mean the US and Britain have joint-control of Germany? How would NATO even factor into this?

I’m almost certain things have not and will not go well for her but I hope she regrets nothing.

Different nationality but a brother in arms – remember Muntadhar al-Zaidi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntadhar_al-Zaidi

Part of me wants to cheer because this brave woman stood up for herself and fought back against religious tyranny.

Part of me wants to cry; because I can only imagine what this oppressive regime is going to do to her now as punishment for her courageous act of defiance. Authoritarians rarely take kindly to those who resist their authority; especially when they’re convinced that they are in the right and that God is on their side.

Restaurant continuing to serve during prayers? They’ll whale on the steel shutters.

A woman showing too much ankle on the street? That’s a rap on the leg (or a stern word to the male relative accompanying her).

And so on.

For these stick-wielding puritanical misogynists to get righteously beat up by a woman is … fitting.

But yeah, the Saudi ‘justice’ system is going to go after this poor woman with a very public vengeance. These are the same bronze-age barbarians who sentenced a visiting TV host to death, for witchcraft.

You know the walk-a-thon? Where you sign up to donate X dollars for every mile some person walks in support of some cause? Let’s apply the same concept here. We start a fund and you sign up to gift this woman X dollars for every lash she gets. The more the government punishes her, the more the sane people of the world reward her for her awesomeness.

If by “we” you mean the United States, the US actually gets only 12% of its foreign oil from Saudi Arabia, with the EU and China the far larger buyers. If we were able to wave the magic wand you seem to think we have and eliminate all dependence on Saudi oil tomorrow (as opposed to a couple decades from now, which is actually the optimistic scenario), the royal family would still have a plethora of rich customers who’d be more than happy to look the other way while they kept financing the insane Wahabbism that this “cop” represents and enforces. You think the power elite of China gives a shit about the rights of Saudi women?