Thursday, March 05, 2009

As the man says, it's flat amazing some of these people remember

to breathe:
During the 3:00PM EST hour of MSNBC news coverage, anchor Norah O’Donnell discovered the source of sexism in the Middle East was not Islamic fundamentalism, but rather, capitalism: "And to another big story, is oil behind sexism in the Middle East? It's a provocative new theory out there today, suggesting the real culprit of the lower status of women in the Middle East is because of the region's oil wealth."

O’Donnell then turned to Sally Quinn of the Washington, who wrote about the theory on the newspaper’s On Faith blog: "This is a hot topic, Sally. Do you believe that oil is behind sexism in the Middle East?" Quinn replied: "Well, I do think that it has a lot to do with it...when you have an oil-rich country, there's much less manufacturing, so that there are fewer jobs for women. But also because the country is so rich that women don't need to work and therefore they're comfortable and they stay home."

Yes, let's ignore that in places like Saudi women aren't allowed to drive, aren't allowed to work, aren't allowed etc., under penalty of being beaten, that a womans value is actually set at half or less that of a man... no, none of that matters, it's all because of the money, you see.

Just damn.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And if those are signs of wealth, these countries were rich a millenium before petroleum was discovered.