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whatthehey

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29. This is a first for me

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 11:05 AM

Feb 2015

Both in academe and in society I have been deeply concerned with religio-lunacy for over three decades. While not believing a word of it, I've long normally been able to identify the theological and doctrinal bedrock from which the lunacy springs. Here however I am at a loss. Other than the basic ideas of seclusion/purdah, which are only incidental to the negation of driving no more than they are to the negation of strolling through the park alone or the negation of taking up public poetry reading in mixed company, I'm failing to see the connection even in Wahhabi terms between driving per se and rape.

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Saudi Historian Says U.S. Women Drive Because They Don't Care If They're Raped [View all] rpannier Feb 2015 OP

Driving makes it easier to avoid rape. Exhibit A Feb 2015 #1

We can solve that by forbidding you to leave your home at all unless accompanied by a male relative. merrily Feb 2015 #6

And yet women get raped at home, too. Ilsa Feb 2015 #12

Very true. My home has been invaded by several times, usually by accident, believe it or not. merrily Feb 2015 #14

Yup, a similar situation happened to me in a college apartment IronLionZion Feb 2015 #17

It was a stranger. Ilsa Feb 2015 #30

This man Turbineguy Feb 2015 #2

Sounds like they have a raping problem rather than a driving problem to me jmowreader Feb 2015 #3

+1 Exhibit A Feb 2015 #4

Right. JDPriestly Feb 2015 #8

I wish just one US president would saying something like this and Jamastiene Feb 2015 #32

Most who fixate on the behavior of a rape victim as the reason for her rape have huge problems. merrily Feb 2015 #15

Winner! smirkymonkey Feb 2015 #23

If your first instinct upon seeing a woman standing next to a broken down car eissa Feb 2015 #31

No Saudi women get raped? No women got raped before cars were invented? merrily Feb 2015 #5

Well that just clears things up! ChosenUnWisely Feb 2015 #7

Well Saadoon looks like it rhymes with maroon rpannier Feb 2015 #9

Please keep in mind get the red out Feb 2015 #10

At the same time, though, who is ready to cut down dramatically on driving, air conditioning, merrily Feb 2015 #16

I wish for renewables get the red out Feb 2015 #18

We are on our way, though not always as quickly or as wisely as we could be. merrily Feb 2015 #19

I agree get the red out Feb 2015 #20

I don't think you should curtail it. merrily Feb 2015 #22

For all our talk, we really don't care how you treat women. Got any more cheap oil? jtuck004 Feb 2015 #11

Clearly this Saudi Arabian historian is a fucking idiot. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #13

And the conclusion of this kind of logic is that we should lock everyone up in cells so they dont stevenleser Feb 2015 #21

He should have said they treat women like princesses Major Nikon Feb 2015 #28

This guy's premise is Kryptonite level stupidity at work Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #24

This is the kind of "reasoning" that makes everyone who hears it hifiguy Feb 2015 #36

LOL Pooka Fey Feb 2015 #37

So women who drive poorly maintained cars are asking for it? MindPilot Feb 2015 #25

...," he fantasized. Iggo Feb 2015 #26

That's great coming from someone who probably has to keep himself Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2015 #27

This is a first for me whatthehey Feb 2015 #29

Ok I may be dim but I don't see abakan Feb 2015 #33

Makes the guy who worried about the rumble seat in early US cars rpannier Feb 2015 #39

What a lovely man. (eom) StevieM Feb 2015 #34

Saudi Arabia = hifiguy Feb 2015 #35

And they can't open a bank account in a regular bank because male tellers would rape them aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2015 #38

Todd Akin is Saudi? KamaAina Feb 2015 #40