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Brickbat: Your Eyes Got Me Dreaming

Charles Oliver | 11.21.2014 6:00 AM

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Saudi Arabia has banned women from displaying "tempting eyes." The country's religious police will now have the power to force women whose eyes they find alluring to wear a full veil that covers them.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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  1. Snark Plissken   12 years ago

    Chuck phoning it in with another lazy KSA story.

  2. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

    Why does Charles Oliver get paid to fuck up links when SugarFree does it for nothing? For a site called Reason...

    Correct link here

    1. UnCivilServant   12 years ago

      I have to laugh IFH, I can't help it.

      Your link is broken.

      1. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

        So there are two people who'd do it for free!

        interesting - i used the Link option on reasonable to embed it, as reason wouldn't let me post the unembedded link (too long, it said)

        http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/04/.....s-4935034/

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          *SLAP*

  3. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    I love this culture. Men are hapless victims of all women, and rather than be responsible for not controlling their own urges, the beguiling womanfolk are forced to cocoon themselves away from being temptation. The mentality is like the ugly flipside of the unfortunate coin being minted in the West. Here, it's the gathering movement of infantilizing women as unaccountable victims of every male in society, whereas the opposite takes place in places like Saudi Arabia.

    I should look into victimhood. Apparently there's power in it.

    1. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

      I'm happy to victimize you, if that would help

      1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc?   12 years ago

        Go on...

        Oh, and it is still Friday under the Equator and across the Dateline, yes?
        *slap*

        1. invisible furry hand   12 years ago

          *slap!*

          1. WTF   12 years ago

            *SLAP!*

            1. Almanian!   12 years ago

              *slap*

              1. Rich   12 years ago

                *slap!*

        2. Steve G   12 years ago

          Poor Argentina, they have to wait 3.5 more days for Brickbat

      2. Snark Plissken   12 years ago

        It's impossible to victimize a Michael Bay fan, and Fist knows it.

      3. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

        COME AT ME BRO

        1. Almanian!   12 years ago

          I'm not your bro, fwend!

  4. Adans smith   12 years ago

    'Funny you can't hide your lying eyes'

  5. nailzer   12 years ago

    Saudi Arabia sounds like a sexually repressed nation.

    1. straffinrun   12 years ago

      When that repression erupts, you won't wanna be circling the Kaaba without waders on.

    2. Drake   12 years ago

      By far the weirdest most fucked up place I've ever been.

  6. d3x / dt3   12 years ago

    Ladies and gentlemen, our allies in the War For Freedom!

  7. Steve G   12 years ago

    Warty just has to wear sunglasses

  8. Doctor Whom   12 years ago

    You can see roughly how tall that woman is! Stone the whore!

  9. Adans smith   12 years ago

    what if they have lovely fingers for ,you know?

  10. missyforsaleepy   12 years ago

    my friend's mother makes $64 /hr on the internet . She has been out of work for ten months but last month her income was $18244 just working on the internet for a few hours. go to website....

    ?????? http://www.payinsider.com

  11. Rufus J. Firefly   12 years ago

    In fairness, because of these eyes, I'd mate with that woman in the pic in a second.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw8nXCx5qgo

  12. LynchPin1477   12 years ago

    Damn your eyes!

  13. AlgerHiss   12 years ago

    The islamic/muslim male: Willfully ignorant, breathtakingly violent, laughably backward, strangely terrified of females and overall, completely deranged.

    Civilized people put up with the islamic/muslim male at their peril.

  14. sarcasmic   12 years ago

    Victim blaming on steroids.

  15. Suthenboy   12 years ago

    While we make plans to colonize Mars the Arabs are crawling even further back into the cave.
    Amazing.

    1. VG Zaytsev   12 years ago

      Calling wahhabis cave men is a vile insult.

      To cavemen.

  16. sarcasmic   12 years ago

    obligatory

    1. Charles Easterly   12 years ago

      Obligatory perhaps, sarcasmic, but rather bizarre.

      OT and even more bizarre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU

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