Saudi Arabia's all-man women’s rights conference

This dude:

http://blog.ameliagreenhall.com/post/quiet-ladies.-wadhwa-is-speaking-now

Many tech feminists (such as myself) like to mock Vivek Wadhwa as “The Guy Who Gets Paid to Talk About Women in Tech,” but what he does is a serious problem that hurts women in tech in tangible ways. By appointing himself the unwanted spokesman for women in tech he has kept actual, qualified women’s voices from being heard widely in the mainstream media.

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From what I can tell, in Saudi Arabia, Sharia law means: whatever the court feels like forcing people into doing. If the judge is in a nasty mood, the sentence simply shifts from an absurd amount of whipping to beheading.

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Apparently in one of their performances in Australia, they did that gag for 20 minutes straight.

Freed from prison, Saudi activist sees hope in new king | Daily Mail Online
Freed from her “bad dream” of three months in prison, Saudi activist Suad al-Shammari, an associate of detained blogger Raef Badawi, sees hope in the ascent to the throne of new King Salman.

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Yeah, that’s pretty accurate, I think.

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