Driven For a Change

A daily occurrence in almost all households throughout the world is outlawed for women in Saudi Arabia. Their need to run the most basic errand is completely reliant on man to drive them. These unfortunate women live like prisoners held at a lower esteem than a 16 year old boy, because society is patriarchal.

"The laws of the kingdom prohibit activities disturbing the public peace and opening venues to sedition, which only serve the senseless, the ill-intenional, intruders, and opportunity hunters" the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi press agency. (story here)

As a gesture of defiance, about 60 women in Saudi Arabia protested the country's ban on female drivers on Oct 26, 2013 and got behind the wheel of a car. Many of these women started their campaign in the 1990's. they were terrified then because there was no social media to highlight and protect what they were doing.

The cost well out weighs the right for everyone including women to drive a car. It's amazing to me that there even needs to be a cause for such a simple, basic human right of equality. What are they afraid of?!?!

Many clerics in the country have staged an obnoxious protest against female drivers. One prominent cleric actually claimed that "unnamed sources" medical studies proved that driving cars harm a women's ovaries.

The opposition can no longer hide behind their religious fanatical views. I think the spur of activists protest and social media will show that Saudi society is ready for a change. it has been proved with the many uprisings throughout the world. Social media does not allow a "blind-eye" to injustice to prevail anymore.

"Progress is impossible without change,

 and those who cannot change their minds cannot

 change anything."
-George Bernard Shaw