Sure but while Saudi Arabia can get weird sometimes (see: that one time they banned women from driving for God knows what reason) for the most part they’re pretty orthodox about this stuff.
Edit: In the very weak defense of Saudi Arabia, they eventually repealed the driving ban.
I don’t think you’re “getting” patriarchal medieval systems of “governance”
Both sides get the same number of lashes in Islamic law, so that’s not what’s going on here.
They never or seldom punish the men. This woman said the father left the country.
Well note they said patriarchal and medieval not Islamic.
Context is Saudi Arabia.
You’d be surprised how many Islamic countries are ruled by traditions that do not originate in Islam. Or that are warped from.
Sure but while Saudi Arabia can get weird sometimes (see: that one time they banned women from driving for God knows what reason) for the most part they’re pretty orthodox about this stuff.
Edit: In the very weak defense of Saudi Arabia, they eventually repealed the driving ban.
American Christians tried to ban women drivers because the vibrations could give them sexual pleasure.
Really just two sides of the same shitty coin. We’re just a little further ahead than they are.