You might have heard that Saudi Arabian women will be able to participate in elections now. I think it’s a lie. Actually, I really doubt that women will be able to do anything in Saudi Arabia for the next, I don’t know, generation. I’ve been to Saudi Arabia, and I’ve seen their messed up society and how women are nothing but wives there. Basically, if you’re a woman in Saudi Arabia, you life exists between the four walls, or the within the mansion you live in. Many men there do marry more than one woman, not because of religion, but because of the Saudi culture and idea that men have to be pleased at all times. Women then just become objects of pleasure and are not respected or given rights that any human being should have. A woman there can’t drive, go anywhere without a male guardian, or even have her face uncovered.

So when I hear that Saudi Arabia is going to let women vote, I know it’s a ploy to get the international community to think that the Saudi government is modern. Just recently two women were arrested for driving. One is being jailed for a some time and the other is going to get ten lashings. For driving. You want me to believe that a woman will be able to vote if she can’t even taker herself to to the polling area? Will she be able to hold some sort of government job if she has to have a guardian follow her everywhere? No she won’t. That’s why what Saudi Arabia won’t let woman actually participate in elections taking place a few years from now. Because they don’t respect their women. Human Rights should be on this country tail, no kidding. When I went there for example, I was not respected. I couldn’t lie down against a wall when I got tired, because I was told by a stranger that “my body distracted men” and that it wasn’t proper. I was fourteen at the time. Take that for creepy and disrespectful.

If you’re from Saudi Arabia and you’re reading this, please tell me that things have changed in the last few years. I’m not being bias. I’m a Muslim and a proud Arab. But I’m a woman, and in this situation, that’s what matters. I last visited in the eight grade, so maybe women are more respected now. I doubt it, so if you can change the way your community treats women, please do. Women are the other half of the people who populate the Earth. Mess with us, and you won’t be happy. That’s a piece of advice you don’t want to dismiss.