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Re:Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardi... by caconym_ on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:05PM (#20594083)
If these Martians value individual freedom they'd probably prefer western liberal democracies, where everybody is (in theory) free to make their own decisions and live their own probably-shitty life on their own terms within the broader constraints of society, over societies where immutable characteristics of one's identity are used as justification to curtail individual freedom. Speaking as a human, entities that value freedom seem willing to make other sacrifices to achieve and maintain it, at least on paper.

On the other hand, e.g. if Martian males are sessile, nonsentient semen-dispensers kept in special rooms in Martian households where they're fattened up for breeding season and then drained of their product in a violent orgy every summer solstice, Martians might look at Saudi Arabian society and assume that something similar is going on, and that there's nothing to worry about.

Equally hypothetically, a member of a Martian society that has passed through the growing pains of industrialization and globalization and achieved long-term (millennia) steady-state sustainability would probably look at American and Saudi Arabian society and conclude that both have serious problems.

Re:Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardi... by Konnstann on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:04PM (#20594076)
I dunno, I'd rather have a choice in what to wear, who to marry, be in control of my healthcare, be able to play sports or go to the pool than not have Juicy Couture marketed towards a young audience.

I wasn't saying the US specifically needs to interfere, the US comment was a tongue in cheek reference to the Iraq war.

Re:Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardi... by watwut on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:14PM (#20594160)
Yes, Martians would find US better place for women. Those girls won't be thrown to prison for refusing to dance.

Meanwhile, even as driving ban was removed, female activists who pushed for it were targeted by goverment and imprisoned.

Re:Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardi... by psychometry on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:34PM (#20594315)
This is a brand-new troll account.
Re:Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Travel Without a Male Guardi... by jki275 on Friday August 02, 2019 @12:45PM (#20594385)
You're using tiny subcultures in the US against a country with systemized sexism based in their religion for the last five hundred years or more.

That makes no sense.

Sure, there are subcultures in the US (the ones you call out certainly) that are not good for anyone. The entire culture of SA is horrible for women. Women are literally chattel in that culture.