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Green Acres · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 260

I was reading, with interest, the expressions of some responsible posters, and don't even get any big ideas that it was any of the usual suspects, concerning foreign wives in the KSA. The conversation was "crashed" by the usual suspects into something about terrorism, and while I can understand the links...(read, "My wife is a terrorist and other sordid stories")...the conversation is locked?

I want to know more about Jumeriah Jane and Kompound Kathy. Sounds like world war radio personalities. Haven't they existed since the first days of colonialism? Isn't that where the tradition of tea at 3 comes from? Sounds like these people have a great life, despite the antipathy of a few. I wouldn't mind having a maid, or two; playing tennis all day, and enjoying a few rounds with my mates everysingledayoftheweek!! Would you, really?

And on a side note, is it really that bad a place for women to live and have a life?

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

It can be - but the number of jobs allowing a comfortable lifestyle to teachers is a lot less than it used to be !

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject:

lazycomputerkids · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 360 Location: Tabuk

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject:

Get a cyber-motel room, you two...

NCTBA

007 · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

Cleopatra · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:08 pm Post subject:

lazycomputerkids · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 360 Location: Tabuk

A one-track mind, NCTB has it.

Cleopatra's statement on marriage stirred the cobwebs of my university days with readings of Kate Chopin coinciding with the release of Thelma & Louise. Chopin achieved literary notarity while raising a large family and yet The Awakening was written 8 years before her death, when her discretion and abilities were powerful and mature. The Awakening presents a young woman weighing the qualities of life offered by acceptable societal roles-- the protoganist, starved by the limits of her choices, drowns. A purposeful ambiguity of the novel's end, as to whether the protagonist has comitted suicide, commented to broader, less dramatic acts of self-destruction among women.

In the final scenes of Thelma & Louise, the word awake is repeatedly exchanged between the primary characters before they are finally confronted at a precipice.

The central question posed being: Given the choices offered to women by most tradition, what choice does a woman have?

007 · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

lazycomputerkids · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 360 Location: Tabuk

johnslat · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:08 pm Post subject:

Dear lazycomputerkids,

If I might make a suggestion, perhaps agent provocateur or, better yet, devil's advocate, might be a more appropriate phrase than "troll spy kitteh."

Regards,
John

lazycomputerkids · Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 360 Location: Tabuk

johnslat · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject:

Dear lazycomputerkids,

Thanks for the link - it reminded me of the "Demotivators" - Increasing Success by Lowering Expectations - created by despair.com that I like so much:

Here's the text for "TRADITION," but the images add to the pleasure:

TRADITION
Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.

I chose "TRADITION," well. because this IS the Saudi forum.

http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

Regards,
John