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July 21st, 2017 
Awake Goy 
nsnbc : A snapchat video circulated in social media, showing a woman touring a historic fort in Saudi Arabia prompted authorities to launch an investigation. In 2011 the Kingdom beheaded a woman for “sorcery”, so Saudi men better don’t let themselves be bewitched by the skirt-girl.
A woman posted a snapchat video of herself, touring the a historic fort in Ushayqir, Saudi Arabia, wearing what would be considered a “very short skirt” in the ultra-conservative Arab Gulf Kingdom.
The snapchat video was snapped and circulated in social media – attracting international attention and causing controversy in Saudi Arabia. Some called for the arrest of the woman while others supported her “act of bravery”.
Now, it may be hard for some to understand why even supporting her “act of bravery” requires some bravery.
To put this into perspective in December 2011, Saudi-Arabia provoked the scorn of human rights movements and activists worldwide, when it publicly beheaded a young Saudi woman, who had fallen out with her husband, who had accused of sorcery.
Seriously speaking – in a country where women are beheaded for “sorcery”, it would not be surprising if men who endorse the skirt-wearing women’s bravery were sentenced for that as well – with the mitigating circumstance that they may be been bewitched.
Saudi authorities are investigating the incident in an attempt to identify and arrest the woman. In Saudi Arabia women are expected to follow a strict dress code where the Abayas, a lose, full lengths robe, and a headscarf covering the face are “the norm”.
But then, if one absolutely wants to compare Saudi Arabia with the USA, the Kingdom may actually not be lagging that far behind.
On April 29, 1907, the New York Times reported that Kansas Governor Stubbs received a letter from a widow at Oswego, asking for permission to wear men’s trousers while at work at home.
That’s right, she did not ask for permission to wear men’s trousers in public but at home. In her letter, the woman wrote that she was supporting a large family which necessitated outside work.
Moreover, she said that wearing skirts she was badly handicapped. Governor Stubbs sent the letter to the Attorney General who ruled that there was no law prohibiting a woman from wearing men’s trousers, “especially if she were the head of the house”.
In 2017, some 110 years after the ruling that authoritatively concluded that there was nothing wrong with a woman being the one who is wearing the pants – as long as there isn’t any patriarch in the house, women have won freedoms that were almost unimaginable when the Kansas widow wrote her letter to Governor Stubbs.
CH/L – nsnbc 20.07.2017
Follow-up article:
Saudi vice and virtue police arrested skirt girl
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2017/07/20/video-of-woman-in-skirt-touring-historic-fort-prompted-saudi-authorities-to-launch-investigation/
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