If You Can't Change the System, Change Yourself!
That's all Saudi Arabia really needs: more social mobility.
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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?
They’ll never be shaggy enough to pass for true Saudi males.
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.”)
There’s no way this could possibly backfire!
I see a whole charity based around this.
“For 50 cents a day, you can help Abisa get a new penis…”
Figures Michael Jackson converts to the religion where it’s OK to diddle the kiddies.