Btw, some of lady friends in Doha have told me stories about being follwed by men in cars (most of the time pretty expensive ones), while walking on Doha roads. They slow down, pull the window down, try to start a conversation (wow!) and even try to pass their fone numbers. I am sure these werent the same bachelors who actually go out and stare when they should be "staying in their little rooms and brooding away." They were the well-to-do people from the right nationalities who can enter any mall on any day single or not.

(Please Excuse me, but that phrase irks me a lot coz I personally know cases where the life in these labor camps drive people to depression and suicide. and it starts when they sit in those hellholes n brood away instead of gettin some fresh air)

Do tell me, as a lady, which of these you would find more unsettling. The problem, arent these unfortunate bachelors/laborers. They are just one of the symptoms of the problem. Suppressing the symptom wont treat the disease.

Those bachelors are an indicator of where you or I would have been if we had grown up in less fortunate circumstances.