Saudi call for boycott against men selling lingerie

[JI7]

Religious police in the country have said they are not against women working in shops as long as they are in women-only malls.

Ms Asaad says the law is deliberately ambiguous and allows religious clerics to effectively uphold a ban on saleswomen.

The Wahhabi strain of Islam, which dominates the country, requires absolute separation of unrelated members of the opposite sex.

Parts of Saudi society are still very traditional and do not like the idea of women working - even if they are just selling underwear to each other.

Because of the strict segregation laws barring physical contact between the sexes, women also cannot be properly measured for their underwear.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8514201.stm

this is weird. so they are so conservative to not allow men and women to work together and only allow women to work in malls that are only for woman. but it's ok to let men sell women's underwear ?

even in America you wont find many men doing that since it wouldn't be comfortable for women,e specially if they needed help with size.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Nice to know that everything else in that country is going so well that they have time, energy and

money to waste on this crap

[Cleita]

2. Yeah, I doubt if I would be very happy with a guy measuring me for

a bra unless he was really hot. :-)

[MineralMan]

3. How about this guy? I hear he'll be looking for a job soon:

[Cleita]

6. Yuck! You just ruined my appetite.

I was thinking more along the lines of Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

[MineralMan]

7. I don't think they're looking for work.

I'm thinking the hot guys probably aren't going to be the ones applying for lingerie fitting jobs.

[wellstone dem]

9. I'm replying only to put more space between the word "hot" and the picture

of Glenn Beck.

It had to be done.

[wellstone dem]

10. Oh crap, it didn't go between the correct posts.

[ccharles000]

4. k/r

[ima_sinnic]

5. may their obsession with separation of the sexes lead to permanent abstinence

which would mean the end of their ridiculous existence

[demosincebirth]

11. It can't happen. Men can have as many wives as they want....pretty tough to abstain.

[Warpy]

8. I think the problem is the men want to run things

and they can't do that selling undies to women in a women's mall. There's your conundrum in a nutshell.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. I can't believe they have men selling womens' undies to women.

That's really crazy. We don't do that here in the US.

And they're so worried about modesty. :wtf: