Just when you think that the world couldn't get any stupider

[Miss Chicken]

this guy opens his mouth

Women should not be driving because it can affect their ovaries and pelvises, according to a Saudi sheikh, seeking to explain the country's ban on female drivers.
Sheikh al-Luhaydan, a judicial and psychological consultant to the Gulf Psychological Association, told Saudi website sabq.org that "physiological science and functional medicine [found] that it automatically affects ovaries and rolls up the pelvis.
"This is why we find for women who continuously drive cars their children are born with clinical disorders of varying degrees."

Rest of story here


I don't drive so my pelvis must be fine but most of the women here must have rolled up pelvises. What is that like, girls?

 

[Tora Ziyal]

So I wonder how sitting in the driver's seat is physiologically different than sitting in, say, the passenger's seat. And why... oh, never mind... sigh.

 

[Tralfaz]

^^^ You have all that radiation coming off the illuminating console guages.

 

[Miss Chicken]

How come men are unaffected by these dangers?

 

[Amaris]

Our penises act as a counter-balance.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Could this be the same guy who said women aren't as good at golf because they have breasts (^ which coincidentally act as counter-balance(s))?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, this isn't too surprising in the Middle East. They're not exactly progressive when it comes to anything sex or gender related. Don't forget those poor guys who were deported for being too attractive. And there was an incident lately where a woman won an election, but then was disqualified from actually taking office because she was too cute.

I remember seeing an article a while back, I forget which country it involved, where women were banned from television all together. The government spokesman said something like, "Sure, guys would like to see women on TV, but what if it was their wife or sister?"

I think it will be a while before Women's Lib blooms in the Arab Spring, but it's coming. There was a story a few months ago where a female blogger from the Middle East posted a nude picture of herself to shake up the patriarchy. Rock the Casbah!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

With views like that i can understand why he would not want any woman around him to have access to a quick and easy way to get away from him.

 

[Naira]

I spent some time trying to come up with a funny comment, but - honestly - I am speechless...

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Let's hope ridiculous argemnts like this are the last ditch attempt to cling to the old order when change is clearly on the horizon.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Well, this isn't too surprising in the Middle East.

It isn't the fact that women aren't allowed to drive that's surprising, at least to me. It's this guy's bizarre justification for it that blows my mind.

(Sorry, would explain in more detail, but I need to go straighten my pelvis.)

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, my Uncle Joe used to say (and probably still does, for all I know) that women shouldn't be allowed to be president because they might start a war when it's "that time of the month."

 

[Tora Ziyal]

And it's better that men start wars at any time of the month?!

 

[RJDiogenes]

He wasn't really one to think things through.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

reading this article I get to suspect that these cords that keep the traditional Saudian headdresses in place are so tight that in some cases they apparently cut off the blood flow to the brain. Dangerousely unhealthy, I daresay, though without immediate consequences on fertility.
(the same might go for some hat bands on westerners as well, though)

 

[RJDiogenes]

Actually, there was a study done some years ago demonstrating that wearing a tie slows down reaction time and thinking ability. People still wear them, though.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

For bragging purposes, perhaps? A German study from the 70s suggested that a tie is basically an arrow pointing to the male genitalia. Makes sense, considering that jackets have a V-shaped front that underlines the arrow shape, and also taking into account that ties have arrow-shaped ends even though those aren't visible under a vest or jacket.

On Thursday before Ash Wednesday women in parts of Germany hunt men and cut their ties off. It has been speculated that this is a kind of symbolic castration.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

So The Onion has caught up with the news...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I'm more intrigued by the full-scale government hoedown. Yee-HAW!!!

 

[trekkiedane]

Well, my Uncle Joe used to say (and probably still does, for all I know) that women shouldn't be allowed to be president because they might start a war when it's "that time of the month."

But it is a well known fact that women in closed-knit groups (like world leaders - I suppose) synchronise their periods... wouldn't that mean that there would be four days every month where (female) world-leaders would retire to places like Camp David and its equivalents and not start any wars?