Again, this isn't about the bored housewives of Jeddah who are kept in a gilded cage.
It's about the women who were violently gang raped in their country's civil war, and now are "tainted" women, disowned by family and community, who have no way to support themselves.
It's about the poor girl sold by her ignorant father into marriage to a man 50 years her senior to settle a family debt, who is then beaten so violently on a regular basis that she miscarries three times before her 14th birthday.
Please don't lecture about "different cultures have different values" when THIS is what we're talking about.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou
Again, this isn't about the bored housewives of Jeddah who are kept in a gilded cage.
It's about the women who were violently gang raped in their country's civil war, and now are "tainted" women, disowned by family and community, who have no way to support themselves.
It's about the poor girl sold by her ignorant father into marriage to a man 50 years her senior to settle a family debt, who is then beaten so violently on a regular basis that she miscarries three times before her 14th birthday.
Please don't lecture about "different cultures have different values" when THIS is what we're talking about.
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou