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…..
Shmooviyet says
Please explain away, Katy Perry, Madonna, HRC and Ashley Judd. Send tweets from your own pools.
All cultures being equal.
Rita says
I wouldn’t mind seeing these islam-fellating media whores replaced by an inflatable ball.
nicu says
They are free persons and not the smartest !
Saudis are untouchable for their oil 🙁
Rob says
The pool in the ad is much larger than the Saudi Gene Pool.
Mike says
I would like to buy tickets for the Madona show in Mecca. Are there any availables?
mortimer says
A woman’s entire body is obscene under Sharia law: “Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts).”
Islam is SYSTEMICALLY misogynistic and patriarchal. Feminists who do not denounce Islam as the MOST ANTI-WOMAN system are DENYING and BETRAYING FEMINISM for a Marxist agenda of imposing censorship of politically incorrect speech.
Fake Feminist slogan: “THE PARTY WILL TELL YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.”
nicu says
And an aggressive Muslima in Australian TV tells everybody Islam is the most feminist religion ever !
Manual Paleologos says
The Saudis have a bizarrely repressed sense of sexuality. They even cut the Maidenform ads out of the foreign newspapers.
Westman says
Finally! Two technological products invented by Islam: a Shariah-conforming blow-up doll and total sunscreen. And all this time we had the impression that Islam suppresses creative thought…….
Northern Virginiastan says
Notice that the little girls’s faces are pixellated?
Ginger says
The children and the man are totally covered up, too.
CM says
Looking at the children and the man, their faces look smushed, like when the artists created clothing, they couldn’t get the faces right and so they look
blurred.
rabrooks says
Nude men and children are just as seductive to them as nude women. They’ll jump on anything. No livestock in the picture, they’d be covered by beach-balls too.
TheBuffster says
They’ve pixelated *all* of the faces, including the man’s.
I don’t get that part.
brian says
i am baffled by the insistence to accept islam a religion, when it’s really a culture. a sadistic one at that.
Michael Copeland says
Islam proclaims itself as a “deen”:
“Fight and kill the unbelievers until the “deen”, all of it, is Islam” (Koran 8:39).
“Deen” is emphatically NOT limited to private conscience: it comprises rules of dress, diet, relationship, criminal laws, punishments, and is billed as the one and only “total way of life”.
WPM says
More proof that Islamic belief is mental illness.
nicu says
Absolutely – and European politicians support them against their own people – what does that tell us ?
David says
Us transvestite Muslim man will wear are bikinis! To mosques in protest!!!
Guest says
And they aren’t even wearing appropriate swim wear!
WPM says
I think the appropriate responds would be the next time there is a press confidant or a news report with someone from the Saudi govt. they should not show their face. I think instead we should have used condom held up by one finger I find a used condom held up by one finger is less offensive then someone representing the idiots running Saudi Arabia I think a used condom has more artist value more though ,compassion, less violence, more self reflection then anything representing there govt. at the present time. Do you think the Western MSM will be on board with my idea?
Matthieu Baudin says
I’m glad Christine is using the ‘Apartheid’ descriptive in commentary about these legally entrenched social divisions within Islamic societies. The ‘Apartheid’ term also provides an appropriate and useful way to analyse the Radical Multicultural Goal of ‘Separate Development’ for separate cultural groups within broader civil societies.
Sarah says
I’d mock this inanity if it weren’t for the fact that it represents a culture, a group of people and a religion who all hate the female gender with such an extraordinary level of fear, that they keep ever-tightening controls on any female unlucky enough to be born within their religion/culture/group of people.
I’ll never forget seeing a photograph a few years ago, it was taken in Saudi Arabia – it was taken from the outside, looking through a window into a restaurant where a man and woman were seated at the table eating. They had their food in front of them.
And the man in his white pajama robes was awkwardly standing up and over the small table so as to hold a separate black sheet up, in addition to the black burqa that the woman was wearing, so that she could spoon food into her mouth underneath it, without anyone possibly catching a glimpse of any part of her, while she fed herself.
The twisted mindset the Arab’s have that feeds this notion, is beyond alarming and worth nothing other than scorn and ridicule. These women, would be free in 24 hours if they took their burqas off and used them to strangle every Arab male in their vicinity. It’d be too quick a death for those men, frankly – but, it is what it is – you have to take your victories as they come!
When most men have multiple wives – its not going to be hard for two to twenty five odd women to hold down one grossly fat, shrieking Arab coward and garotte him with his own head tea-towel and his ‘chastising stick’ that he wears on his belt, for his wives.
There is no longer any excuse given I seriously doubt you would find a Saudi woman alive today who isn’t aware of the fact that in almost every other nation on the planet – women have tens of thousands of freedoms, rights, privileges and opportunities compared to what she will ever have, in Saudi Arabia. Ignorance is no longer an excuse, no matter whether she is a gilded princess in a tacky 24 carat solid gold mansion or the lowliest of wives to the poorest Bedouin tent scum who sweeps the streets for a rough living.
They will never be free while they submissively wait to be gifted their freedom by their Masters. They need to take it themselves, savagely punishing those who have vindictively and sadistically brutalized their entire gender for hundreds upon thousands of generations without pause and ensuring that those cowards who get to remain alive are well aware of the new world order.
I say savagely punish simply because fear, brutality and sadism are core elements of Arab culture – and they are elements that those lazy, vicious men will truly understand. And because, let’s face it – they damn well deserve it.
A morbidly obese Saudi male waddling about in his in cotton robes may seem to be an extremely formidable opponent to a Saudi woman – but you know what I see? I see a grossly fat coward with a mealy mouth and greedy eyes who may be sadistic and violent and misogynistic, but he can’t run fast, he would have a heart attack if he tried anyway. He is weak from a life of lazy overindulgence and will have the pain threshold of a newborn.
You ladies can flip that turtle on his back easy enough. And then write your own future. Actually have a story that is YOU that YOU get to write and YOU to get to choose.
There is nothing comparable in my view, to the freedom of choosing your own life and the path you walk.Sometimes in life, you are forced to fight for the right to be treated as a human being with equal rights. Time to wad up those burqas, ladies and get to work.
Dennis says
And Trump expects them to be our allies?
rabrooks says
We’ve had worse!
Manual Paleologos says
Not allies. A counter against Iran. Realpolitik.
JOHN says
So many tacky jokes, so little time……