Islamic misogyny Saudi Arabia

Misogynist Saudi Society Controls Every Aspect of Female Life, Including the Selling of Underwear…….

Saudi sales clerk: One size fit all

With no fitting rooms and an all male staff, Saudi women taste the second class life, when they’re allowed to leave the house that is.

Saudi lingerie trade in a twist

But in Saudi Arabia – an ultra-conservative nation where unmarried men and women cannot even be alone in a room together if they are not related – it is strange in the extreme. Women, forced to negotiate their most intimate of purchases with male strangers, call the situation appalling and are demanding the system be changed.

“The way that underwear is being sold in Saudi Arabia is simply not acceptable to any population living anywhere in the modern world,” says Reem Asaad, a finance lecturer at Dar al-Hikma Women’s College in Jeddah, who is leading a campaign to get women working in lingerie shops rather than men.

“Girls feel uncomfortable when males are selling them lingerie, telling them what size they need… he’s totally checking the girls out! Rana Jad”

“This is a sensitive part of women’s bodies,” adds Ms Asaad. “You need to have some discussions regarding size, colour and attractive choices and you definitely don’t want to get into such a discussion with a stranger, let alone a male stranger. I mean this is something I wouldn’t even talk to my friends about.”

Well what do you expect when one half of society is treated like cat meat? KGS

H/T: Baron Bodissey

One Response

  1. Well, if the sales guys are all on the other team it might not matter so much.

    Oh but this is Saudi Arabia and modern it ain’t.

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