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Saudi Cleric Stupidly Says Women Hurt Their Ladyparts When They Drive
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Ahead of yet another campaign urging women to defy Saudi Arabias dude-only driving rules in a protest drive on October 26, a conservative Saudi cleric has used his thoroughly medieval understanding of human organs to argue that women who drive cars risk damaging their ovaries and giving birth to children with clinical problems.
Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, one of the 21 members of Saudi Arabias Senior Council of Scholars capable of writing or religious edicts, as well as advising government officials, offered his thoughts about women driving during an interview Friday with sabq.org. Though the esteemed and self-righteous cleric has no medical background (you know, other than that Operation game he got for his eighth birthday when his parents still hoped he grow up to be a nice country physician and not a professional jerkoff), he was more than happy to explain that having ladyparts is not conducive to driving:
If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ovaries and pushes the pelvis upwards.
That is why we find those who regularly drive have children with clinical problems of varying degrees.
My testicles fall asleep when I go on long drives can Saleh al-Lohaidans brand of car science explain that, too? Because Im sure losing blood circulation in that area isnt great, but whatever, its not like Im a car scientist specializing in effect of sitting down has on ones junk.
The ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia has been a source of major debate in recent years, with more female activists calling on Saudi women to defy the countrys unofficial driving ban. Though theres no law on the books saying explicitly that women cant drive, only men can be given drivers licenses, and driving without a license could earn a would-be woman motorist trouble with the law and even charges of political protest.
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I wonder how long before Tea Turds start agreeing with this
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)Is this 2013 or 1013?
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)but the horses they rode could not have been good for men's reproductive abilities
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Sometimes we sit on our testicles. Other times they're squished between our legs while we're driving.
Saudi Arabia needs to enter 2013 and get out of the Dark Ages.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)who has either traveled abroad or who has seen US military women driving massive trucks.
Honestly, when they get that desperate, we know they've lost.
obxhead
(8,434 posts)long rides on a unicycle, I'm pretty sure the women will be fine driving.
Another question to ask is do women ride in cars? If so isn't that hurting them as well?
This would be hilarious if it was the onion. The fact that this is seriously being said at all in this day and age is beyond sad.