Comments on: Forever Children: Human Rights Watch Blasts Saudi Arabia on Treatment of Women

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By: very concerned

very concerned — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:59:36 +0000

I wish that journalists reporting such horrors would remind readers that this regime stays in power only through US support.

Also, while we’re feeling such compassion for women, a reminder from a recent article:

“about a quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday, with ongoing health problems that one activist likened to the effects of living in a war zone.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23056009/

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:49:20 +0000

Mespo, I agree, trying to extend the pool might have put the women interviewed at a terrible risk, even more so than they are right now just living in such an oppressive environment. I just hope the women who were interviewed will be safe in case any of the Saudi males get hold of the H.R.W. report.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:42:18 +0000

“Frankly, 100 women is not a large pool and I am surprised that they did not try to extend the pool of interviews.”
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I am sympathetic to the plight of the interviewers trying to get women alone in public without their male “masters” present. I think 100 is enough of a sample considering that the pool is under constant watch and oppression. To avoid a Potemkin village here must have taken some real doing.

I have also observed that “shocking a conscience” only works if you have one, and the existence of a collective one there among the dominant males has rarely been demonstrated to me when it comes to familial relations.