Since the job market is so grim in Chicago, I’ve been seeking jobs outside the U.S.. Ironic since this was the country migrants once came to, and now we are becoming the immigrants. Amongst these jobs I’ve sought out, since the money is so good, is a position I’ve found is teaching English in a University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, when hearing upon my phone interview today from the job recruiter warning me on how badly women are treated there, I’m having second thoughts, because, well, I’m a woman. An American woman.
In America, black people complain and complain about how bad they have it and never shut the hell up about the worn out topic of racism. YOU ARE PETTY, PATHETIC WHINERS.
In Saudi Arabia, women are less than second class and are considered dirtier than dogs. Every single day a woman in Saudi Arabia is raped violently, then prosecuted by a judge, or better yet, King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz, for having sex with a man that wasn’t her husband in the first place. If a woman has sex outside a marital union, they will be persecuted by death while the participating male will serve some time, but maybe a year or two. Women can’t even sit in the same area at a restaurant as the men do in Saudi Arabia. It’s illegal for women to drive a car or going to the grocery store alone. Women being humiliated, beaten, imprisoned, and murdered by the religious police there is frequent, and they’re constantly reminded on how sinful they are as they’re beaten by police for not abiding to her husbands demands, even if he’s forcing her to sleep in the barn with cows and pigs.
To be whipped with 200 lashes for sitting with a male co-worker at a Starbucks in Saudi Arabia is often combined with being stripped while the Religious Police dip the woman’s head scarf (women must have hair covered by law) and clothing in mud and then forced to put the same mud-drenched clothes on before seeing the judge that will condemn her regardless of anything she says, since she’s a second class citizen. They’re only recently permitted to part from their duties temporarily of cleaning house and making babies at the age of 14 in favor of education, which has only become slightly available to them in the last 30 years. However, women are excluded from studying engineering, architecture, and other subjects that are officially to be reserved for men. In regards to women wanting to study law and pharmacy, it is only in the past 4 or 5 years becoming available minimally when attending college. Let me remind you Saudi Arabia is a filthy rich country, so lack of money or education isn’t the problem. Women don’t have rights there simply because they are pets meant for breeding and cleaning house for the men and Islam.
The loop hole to all of this: If Saudi Arabian women have the opportunity to go abroad outside of Saudi Arabia and outside of Islam, all of these atrocities are not valid and they are permitted the same rights as the women in the Western World. Simple as that.
Why and how is the United Nations allowing this kind of treatment to women? Why isn’t 20/20 and CNN bringing tyrannies like this to the forefront of our attention 24/7? Why do we in the western world just keep throwing money at situations like this when what we need is someone to take the reigns and lead? Why don’t we have leaders anymore? Why isn’t Obama taking charge like Franklin D. Roosevelt did with pulling us out of the Great Depression and saving the day with WWII? Why isn’t Congress coming up with a plan to change our economic situation rather than mud-slinging, arguing, relentless negotiating, taxing, shifting money around? Lead for gods sake! George Bush got his way immediately when he wanted to war with Iraq, so why can’t our government come up with a plan NOW on railing plans out rather than pissing our deficit away? Let me sit down with a pen and paper — I have some great ideas and I need a job! Why won’t someone stand up to anything anymore with a plan?
George Washington, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, John Lennon, Winston Churchill and Joan of Arc, even Micheal Moore, the hippies in the 60’s, The Black Panthers, Women’s Lib: these were movements of humans fighting in fervor for what is right with courage, bravery and fury! They new what was important and had a message and drew their resources for their ideologies and got the job done. All we do today is distract ourselves with our iPods and singing competitions, and menial celebrity gossip and stupid political ettiquette. Why is it that business men are in control of our lives today? Why doesn’t anyone fight back? Why are you all so chicken? Why won’t anyone come up with a plan to do something rather than throw money at the situation? Contribute to society rather than reproducing more useless babies and focus
and focusing on your stupid love relationships. Do something important. Lead! We need a leader! Do something already and stop taking it like a wimp!! I hope this makes you angry because I’m furious.
Okay, I guess i could’ve gone without using the ‘black’ analogy, I just want my fellow American’s to prioritize issues in the matter of importance. The French government is afraid of their citizens and caters to their needs accordingly, because citizens of France will storm and rally. We sit back and do nothing in fear of consequences and fear everything, period. Maybe a mother of a defeated soldier will sit outside the Whitehouse with a stupid picket sign in hand. Big deal.
You have every right to be angry with me for seeming a biggot, but i’d scream out the side of the Sears Tower that i’m the Grand Dragon of the KKK if I thought that’d motivate some people to fight for something already.
Be angry and with force and use action rather than just waiting for somebody else to act on behalf of your frustration. Be a leader.
