If You Can't Change the System, Change Yourself!

Jesse Walker | April 4, 2006

That's all Saudi Arabia really needs: more social mobility.

Comments

|4.4.06 @ 11:51AM|#

1. Yahoo! needs an editor. Either the women "underwent" the surgery or "have undergone" the surgery, NOT "have underwent." This one earns a $500 ticket from the Grammar Police."

2. Response to story: If Michael Jackson really converted to Islam, does he count as a replacement for one of the women?

MP|4.4.06 @ 11:55AM|#

They'll never be shaggy enough to pass for true Saudi males.

|4.4.06 @ 11:59AM|#

Could this work for Saudi females?

Bribe a doctor to certify you are male.
Actually having the operation smarts, I imagine.
(My solution, by the way, causes no "dead branches," nor "unavailable females.")

|4.4.06 @ 12:04PM|#

There's no way this could possibly backfire!

Jeff P.|4.4.06 @ 3:48PM|#

I see a whole charity based around this.
"For 50 cents a day, you can help Abisa get a new penis..."

|4.4.06 @ 4:20PM|#

Figures Michael Jackson converts to the religion where it's OK to diddle the kiddies.