Sisters are doing it for themselves!

Here's an interesting essay, it tells the tale of ordinary Saudi women and the every-day injustices they face at the hands of Saudi men and their religiously inspired system of discrimination against them. It makes depressing reading but it's worth it just so you can remind those smug ex-pats when they're banging on about how much money they made working in places like Saudi, Kuwait, UAE etc., what systems those labours help to prop up.

It has always baffled me why the three main desert dogma's and most of the subsequent chips off those blocks consider that the only possible gender for their deity must be male, it's almost like at the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago when the foundation stones of these myths were being laid it was the muscle-bound labourers that were the only ones who got a say in making the rules, the thinking members of those societies were clearly subjugated. You could be forgiven for thinking that the desert deity must have a predilection for muscle mass, body hair and penises, each to their own I suppose, but what a waste of human potential, relegating 50% of the population to submission and servitude. I wonder how many Marie Curie's, Margaret Thatchers and Emily Bronte's have been overlooked in history because of these bronze age attitudes.