Women’s Sexy Clothing ‘Distracting Muslim Men From Sleep’
I read an article (in Salon probably) by a western woman who'd spent time working in Saudi Arabia and one of the things that struck me about her adventures in staying covered up at all times was that the reactions of men who would "see" her (like, once she was -- fully covered -- waiting for a friend outside of a bank she wasn't allowed to go in to and the guard asked her to stand to the side instead of right out in front because it men were staring. and when she told her friend he was not sure why this upset her...) was that the men acted like they'd just hit puberty. They stared, they stammered, they got really freaked out whenever they had to deal with her.
I can believe those guys would be distracted to sleeplessness. And I can believe someone who thinks men never need to, oh, mature and learn a little self-control, would feel bad for them.
Ew.
It was the LA Times.
Very interesting article [link]
[edit: hmm. the stammering men must have been another article. but you get the idea]
So, the elevator informs me that 11% of Americans would be willing to have a device implanted in their brain that would provide constant internet access.
I heard that on BOL the other day too. And have the same questions as brenda. Come on people, you could have Google in your brain!
You see it all the time with very fundie Christian groups that try to suppress interaction between the sexes -- women are always told to not wear anything, or *do* anything, etc., that might cause "a brother to stumble."
Yep -the first thing I thought of when I read that was that survey awhile back about "And when girls wear [x], does THAT cause you to stumble?" where the results basically said girls should wear burlap sacks and also try not to move if they can at all help it. (Of course, what too few people pointed out was that it was a survey of TEENAGE BOYS. And yet, not one question on there about "Does looking at linoleum cause you to stumble?")
I'm just going to stand behind Teppy and her rant instead.
joins Daisy, waves her hockey stick
I can't remember a time when my parents came with me.
Seriously. I think we laughed at those kids.
Aww, Annabel is just the most ADORABLE pirate ever.
Pirate!Annabel = adorable!
One of the mom's in my office is really tired today because her thirteen year old came back from his Halloween fun at midnight, stinking of booze. Well, I say 'came back', I mean she found him wandering around while she was frantically driving round in her pyjamas looking for him. Ah, Halloween in Ireland...
Poor woman.
ION, it's almost 11:30 am here and it's not yet reached 50 degrees.
