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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by rdl on Thursday November 22, 2012 @05:16PM (#4820213)
They're treated badly by the state (officially), but it's getting better, AND many Saudis actually do treat each other much more reasonably than the law requires -- behind closed doors, plenty of Saudi women are living decent lives, and spend as much of their time outside Saudi as possible.

It's still bad, but it's not as bad as you might fear.

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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by arrrg on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:27PM (#4820407)
I’m not sure how that is relevant?

People being treated like that is always completely unacceptable. Nothing can excuse that. Everything you say there really doesn’t matter at all for this evaluation.

Actually and effectively doing something about that is the hard part and there are probably no simple solutions. That doesn’t change the nature of this crass violation of human dignity.

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Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women by esolyt on Thursday November 22, 2012 @05:34PM (#4820254)
>and spend as much of their time outside Saudi as possible.

Well, they shouldn't have to. That's the point.

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