r/AmericaBad • u/Signal-Initial-7841 🇨🇦 Canada 🍁 • 2d ago
Saudi Woman are treated “better” than those in the West(US included)
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u/AverageLAHater IDAHO 🥔⛰️ 2d ago
When I deployed to Saudi Arabia, the base commander told all women to never leave the LSA without a man. It’s not safe for women on their own
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u/Intrepid_Egg_7722 2d ago
I've heard stories in my industry about servicewomen and civilian workers (particularly blonde women) just "disappearing" for a few days into Saudi custody if they catch them outside without their headscarves. I'm sure some of these stories are exaggerations or just made up outright, but I did personally witness a close call with one of our deployed contractors who spent a day in "lockup" at the local police station. Weirdly, she was never officially booked in and just spent the whole time in a nice office with the captain.
Her crime: She went to a local restaurant and allegedly sat in the section meant for families, which she isn't allowed to do as a single woman. She insisted there were no markings or signage of any kind to create the distinction of different sections. This was about ten years ago.
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u/DBDude 2d ago
They asked to buy one of the female soldiers in my unit.
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u/Dear-Ad-7028 2d ago
Well…what did you charge?
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u/alexd1993 2d ago
About tree fiddy
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u/CombatWombat0556 USA MILTARY VETERAN 2d ago
Ah the barracks bunny. Smart use biological warfare
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u/DBDude 2d ago
This was one of the “kick your ass” females, so we were thinking of letting them try.
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u/CombatWombat0556 USA MILTARY VETERAN 2d ago
Ah yeah, way more entertainment value seeing these dudes with massive egos get their ass beat by someone they most likely see as sub human
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u/ItsSoKawaiiSenpai 2d ago
Honestly, "West Bad" should be its own thing/sub, it seems to be a growing sentiment among idiots...
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u/Pearl-Internal81 ARIZONA 🌵⛳️ 2d ago
Not surprising considering that they still practice slavery.
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u/IntelligentRock3854 AMERICAN 🏈 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 1d ago
Didn’t they invent it? Or was that a Mongol thing
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u/Pearl-Internal81 ARIZONA 🌵⛳️ 1d ago
Slavery has, unfortunately, been around for thousands of years. So no, the Mongol Empire did not invent it.
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u/rsteroidsthrow2 1d ago
Both the other pre Hammurabi laws from the Fertile Crescent and the Hammurabi code have large sections on slavery.
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u/duke_awapuhi AMERICAN 🏈 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 2d ago
When my feminist aunt said women in the third world have it better than American women I could barely keep my cool
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u/EmpressPlotina CALIFORNIA🍷🎞️ 2d ago
As a feminist I always think it's a slap in the face to the women who have to live in those places. Sometimes you even see arguments between western women and women from Islamic countries, where the western woman accuses the other woman of being racist and close minded. Like, wouldn't they know better than us?! Maybe believe them lol.
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u/duke_awapuhi AMERICAN 🏈 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 1d ago
And don’t get me wrong, I’m a feminist too, but I’m not that kind of feminist. I’m not going to pretend American women have it worse than women around the world when in plenty of places women aren’t even taught to read, are forced into marriage as children and aren’t allowed to have hardly any freedom at all
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u/EmpressPlotina CALIFORNIA🍷🎞️ 1d ago
Yeah, I agree, that's a massive fuck you to those women.
Kind of like when people insist that the US is a third world country 😭
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u/duke_awapuhi AMERICAN 🏈 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 1d ago
It’s so dumb. And it’s that type “Americacentric” mentality that people in other countries criticize. The people who think the US sucks are the same people who never freaking think about any other country on earth, and if they do, they assume it’s better than ours. It’s just an ignorant and oblivious worldview
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u/IntelligentRock3854 AMERICAN 🏈 💵🗽🍔 ⚾️ 🦅📈 1d ago
My eyes filled with tears reading this. I was nearly raped at age 9 by simply going to the metro. Fuck these people they don’t know shit abt the third world
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u/mramisuzuki NEW JERSEY 🎡 🍕 2d ago
Define “better”.
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u/eggplant_avenger 2d ago
in Saudi women can own slaves, drive, and don’t have to work. all possible in the U.S. but rarer for a woman to have all three
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u/EmpressPlotina CALIFORNIA🍷🎞️ 2d ago edited 1d ago
Their husbands can own slaves, they have been allowed to drive for what, 2 years now? And they are not allowed to work...
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u/feisty-spirit-bear 2d ago
I'm pretty sure that language is an Ethiopian language (I think Amharic). So, odd they'd be talking about Saudi Arabia. I guess if they moved to Saudi Arabia and are still using their native language 🤷♀️
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u/Maolek_CY USA MILTARY VETERAN 1d ago
Yeah, it's Amharic. Lots of Ethiopians work around the Middle East.
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u/ascillinois 2d ago
Ya ok cool story bro. Women are still treated like second class citizens in Saudi Arabia. When I mean second class I'm not talking about cushy western second class Im talking stonning women for talking or speaking their minds im talking about women being forbidden to drive.
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u/Energy_Turtle 2d ago
Half my family is American and half is Saudi. Neither country is especially hard for women. You'll hear a lot of crazy stuff from years ago, but Saudi has changed. I wouldn't fault anyone from either country for assuming the women are treated better where they live.
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u/Kuro2712 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🌼 2d ago
Of course a Saud would think they treat women better than the West, because they think women shouldn't be treated like a Human being, and instead as a prize.
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u/fslzh 2d ago
Removing the media effects and social bias, you will find her right
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