Saudi police officers hand out roses to female drivers. (Today is the first-day women can legally drive in Saudi Arabia)
I know this might have been posted in good intentions but can we not romanticize this please. I know y’all are going to say to celebrate small victories but the very female women who fought for this to happen are being arrested in Saudi Arabia and put in jail. Rape and Death threats are being made. This isn’t a happy ending and it’s really isrresponsible to post a romanticized version of female oppression.
This is a huge PR campaign made to highlight MBS’s faux ‘progressive’ vision for a country that has and always will remain fascistic at best. Shia Muslim minors in Saudi Arabia are getting beheaded for protesting their government. The activists who wanted to legalize women driving are in jail and rotting away rn as CNN and Reuters post garbage articles like this. Saudi Arabia promotes the killing of Shias worldwide by exporting their extremist curriculum abroad and funding death squads. The fact in 2018 women have been made able drive when they already should’ve had this right (lmao) is only a distraction from the fact that they are the largest killer of children in the world as reported by even the U.N. They are starving the people of Yemen and destroying entire countries. Please read these articles critically and remember that THIS is what propaganda looks like