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Saudi women will no longer need a man's permission to travel or study
A move by Saudi Arabia to give women more control over their life choices by relaxing a controversial male guardian system has been welcomed as another small step for women in the conservative kingdom. Saudi Arabia is well known to be one of the world's most gender-segregated nations, where women live under the supervision of a male guardian, cannot drive, and must wear head-to-toe black garments in public.
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Wow! So progressive. They need to be careful with all these new liberties, they risk jumping too quickly forward to the 13th century.
Wouldn't worry too much. This is a Nairobi newspaper's fourth- or fifth-hand, indirect, hypothetical, conditional, qualified report in the abstract that such and such a thing may occur in future. It's like saying that one afternoon in the seventh century may've felt like the eighth for a minute there, depending on who was paying attention. Almost makes you wonder why a warm bucket of spittle like this story got major play, almost. No there there.