Saudi Cleric Stupidly Says Women Hurt Their Ladyparts When They Drive
LatestAhead of yet another campaign urging women to defy Saudi Arabia’s dude-only driving rules in a protest drive on October 26, a conservative Saudi cleric has used his thoroughly medieval understanding of human organs to argue that women who drive cars risk damaging their ovaries and giving birth to children with clinical problems.
Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, one of the 21 members of Saudi Arabia’s Senior Council of Scholars capable of writing or religious edicts, as well as advising government officials, offered his thoughts about women driving during an interview Friday with sabq.org. Though the esteemed and self-righteous cleric has no medical background (you know, other than that Operation game he got for his eighth birthday when his parents still hoped he grow up to be a nice country physician and not a professional jerkoff), he was more than happy to explain that having ladyparts is not conducive to driving: