tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post6841066950626216155..comments2023-10-23T19:11:58.475+03:00Comments on Stilettos in the Sand…...: Bold and Beautiful in BlackSabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00099972141312539283noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-15344610085306324502009-02-15T16:01:00.000+03:002009-02-15T16:01:00.000+03:00Thanks for the so kind compliments, StDiesel. Nop...Thanks for the so kind compliments, StDiesel. Nope - not a writer in States - well, I guess, kind of I was, I wrote a lot of letters and motions and briefs [as a paralegal]. My life here will have to be compiled into a book. [Chapter 1 is done!]<BR/><BR/>Oh, I can imagine the horror for that little boy, "Are you my mother?" We jokingly tell women apart from the pocketbooks.Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00099972141312539283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-25085692762950862672009-02-15T15:45:00.000+03:002009-02-15T15:45:00.000+03:00Wow, oppression and humor intermixing. I really e...Wow, oppression and humor intermixing. I really enjoyed reading this post. I appreciate your style of writing, it was a very well written series of observations complete with stinging humor mixed in. Very nice. What is your background; were you a professional writer in the States - or is this a natural gift? Let us all know if you decide to compile your 'Sandbox' blogs into a book.<BR/><BR/>*You Go, Saudi Girls!* Things must be slowly changing there. I never saw women attired like that while in Dammam (97 & 98).<BR/><BR/>One personal observation comes to mind. During a visit to a grocery store in Al-Khobar, a 'local' lad - about six years old - became separated from his mother. He frantically walked an aisle and would great each lady that he encountered - covered from head-to-toe, of course - and point at them while calling out "Mamma.?!"<BR/><BR/><BR/>To the distressed little boy, all of the women in the store looked just like his mother!<BR/><BR/>It took him over a dozen attempts before he found his mom. Poor kid.StDieselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06112164155185640083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-78643547509184205162009-01-25T08:09:00.000+03:002009-01-25T08:09:00.000+03:00Look around you, Dinah. It is already very, very ...Look around you, Dinah. It is already very, very much happening. And, for the next [at least!] four years it is only going to get much, much worse. Mark my words.Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00099972141312539283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-77320949818143593692009-01-25T04:46:00.000+03:002009-01-25T04:46:00.000+03:00Needless to say, I found your account of the hot s...Needless to say, I found your account of the hot smoking abaya fascinating, Miss Sabra!<BR/><BR/>I got carried away imagining the whole drama in my head and forgot to tell you! Ha-ha.Dinah Lordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08851219705705635093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-51068678778249893532009-01-25T04:37:00.000+03:002009-01-25T04:37:00.000+03:00I often wonder how it will start - will they come ...I often wonder how it will start - will they come into a series of US towns like the Taliban do in Afghanistan/Pakistan and just make the announcement that everybody has to wear the veil and if you don't you'll pay, kind of a thing? Some of the braver women blow them off and so they just pop a few every couple of days until the women fall in line?<BR/><BR/>Or will it be a decree from the Ayatollah after they declare the US the Caliphate following some kind of weapon of mass destruction attack?<BR/><BR/>I wonder what is happening to UK kafir women in neighborhoods that have become predominantly Muslim? I seem to remember an increased number of rapes and attacks on kafir women by Muslim men being reported in cities like Malmo Sweden and Belgium.<BR/><BR/>(Am I crazy that I am starting to think about things like this, I wonder?)Dinah Lordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08851219705705635093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-27005776876869851182009-01-24T08:31:00.001+03:002009-01-24T08:31:00.001+03:00Won't be long, Steve, the way things are going, be...Won't be long, Steve, the way things are going, before women in the States will be required to wear the same "symbol of oppression."Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00099972141312539283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-60695444195917303372009-01-24T08:31:00.000+03:002009-01-24T08:31:00.000+03:00I agree, Gill. "Trouble," indeed...DH will luv th...I agree, Gill. "Trouble," indeed...<BR/><BR/>DH will luv the chicken dish. I rarely - once, twice a year, maybe - make chicken for him. The Kids? Yes. But not DH.Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00099972141312539283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-30020600263460296062009-01-24T05:32:00.000+03:002009-01-24T05:32:00.000+03:00To me, the Abaya is a symbol of oppression. It is ...To me, the Abaya is a symbol of oppression. It is a slap in the face of any woman who is forced to wear one.<BR/><BR/>I am happy we do not treat our women this way.Steve Harkonnenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09497761866380334481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29282508.post-15362326427264276852009-01-24T01:48:00.000+03:002009-01-24T01:48:00.000+03:00I have to say I smell trouble with that..........t...I have to say I smell trouble with that..........they'll be thrown in jail and whipped, if they look like that!!!!<BR/><BR/>By the way the chicken dish will freeze well.<BR/><BR/>I also made chicken fried rice with the leftovers and they were yummy as well.<BR/><BR/>GillGill - That British Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456247587052149765noreply@blogger.com