Saudi Arabia replaced a mom in a swimming pool advertisement with an inflatable ball. In the Saudi ad, her children are featured looking over so lovingly at a ball in the corner. It’s telling about the value of women under the Sharia, where women have to be hidden away even in an innocuous advertisement. Under this gender apartheid in Saudi Arabia, women can only use private, women-only pools; they cannot try on clothes in stores even behind closed doors, because then it would be a woman’s fault for causing the male imagination to run wild; women can’t drive; and are further subjugated under a degrading male guardianship system. All justified by Sharia.
“Saudi ad censors woman, replaces her with inflatable ball”, Express Tribune, June 6, 2017:
An ad by a Saudi company replacing a woman in a swimming pool with an inflatable ball has caused uproar on social media.
Posted on Twitter by retail company SACO on their official page, the image features a family lounging in a swimming pool with a glaring difference from the original image – as pointed out by a Twitter user who posted original image – there is an inflatable ball where there’s supposed to be the woman. Other changes include pix-elated faces and blacked-out bodies of the man and two kids.
It did not take long before the stark differences were noticed by the Twitteratis, who had a hard time comprehending it….
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has strict modesty rules, making it obligatory for women to do hijab or wear abaya when they step outside their homes.Last year, Saudi police detained a young woman after receiving complaints that she removed her abaya on a main street in the capital Riyadh…..