Saudi Arabia is attempting to reassure LGBTQ+ visitors ahead of hosting the 2034 World Cup, even though homosexuality remains criminalised.

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[–] -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Those restrictions have been loosened considerably, especially for non-Saudi women, though wearing an abbaya is still wise in order to avoid ogling and sexual harassment. And it's no longer required for foreign women to cover their hair when in public, or for any women to be escorted by a husband or make relative. MBS regarded the religious police (the wonderfully named Society for Encouraging Virtue and Discouraging Vice) as a competing power center, so since they like keeping their heads attached to their bodies as much as most people, they're nowhere near as intrusive as they used to be.

It's still by no means a feminist paradise, of course, but under MBS, Saudi Arabia seems to be shifting from a medieval theocracy to a slightly secular totalitarian state, more like Iraq under Saddam.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't that the guy that butchered a journalist? Real progressive.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    seriously? the US is literally killing children every other day in Iran and bombing fishermen in the Caribbean. On scale of shitty to MBS, Trump ranks much worse in terms of human rights, fucking women's reproductive rights as well.

    They're all scum bags alas enabled by the shitty majority.

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