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Gotta be honest, DCUM doesn't really surprise me that much anymore, but a thread filled with 'oh the way the middle east royals treat women like chattel is FINE because they all know what they got into and should accept being slaves forever and dude they are just such tacky climbing bs who deserve whats coming to them' is pretty surprising!
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It's just one guy, probably an UAE diplomat; see how he brought up the colonialism without any rhyme or reason to the post he was replying, proof that he is not familiar with the US culture and he uses colonialism as a response to anything incovenient. Also, see reference to "this is how it's done", the normality of the father having full custody, posting the bodyguard picture drinking beer as a disgusting and shameful picture - alcohol is sinful for Muslims. It's not DCUM. |
I appreciate the distinction. Regardless, wives and concubines are all in his harem so the distinction means little to me. It’s just such a sad, sad way to live. It’s worse that he isn’t attractive. |
It’s not fine. But she choose to marry him in 2004 (not 1950). She is an educated woman and attended one of the best universities in the WORLD. Which tells me that if she was being “forced” into this marriage against her will she should have used the western media outlets to tell her story. No one thinks that system is anything less than barbaric and archaic. |
Haya was an asset to her own business. She just miscalculated what she'd be able to get away with. You can't be possibly dumb enough to argue that it was passionate love that drove her to marry a guy who was ugly, Stone-Age conservative, married to three other women AND 20+ years her senior. She married for money and global attention. |
Not sleeping with the bodyguard was entirely within her control. Her husband has divorced women before and they are alive. |
Not all Middle East treats women like chattel but the UAE royals certainly do - a fact well known to Haya before she chose to marry an ugly, conservative, many times-married, old, VERY RICH dude. I'm also surprised at DCUM. Typically women who sleep with married men are subjected to much scorn, as are cheating spouses. But here you have women cheering on Haya to enjoy her handsome MARRIED bodyguard, whose wife is on record for being devastated and shattered by this turn of events. I guess DCUM only scorns the regular women. |
She was not forced into this marriage. She entered it willingly and enthusiastically. No one held a gun to her head to leave a relatively liberal life for the joys of UAE. |
Actually they all live in separate palaces scattered across the UAE and interact very little. |
She didn’t miscalculate. She is getting a fortune, her children, and freedom. |
She would have very much preferred to continue to have access to more money and more global convening. She is also forever connected to the dude via their children. If they have inherited their mother's mercenary genes, they may view their UAE family in a different light when time comes. |
She’ll need that money to make sure her daughter doesn’t end up like Shamsa and Latifa. |
Shamsa was already imprisoned by the time Haya married her father. You have to wonder about the calculus of the woman who chooses to marry a man like that. |
It remains to be seen how much of that fortune she will actually get. Her kids better be careful when traveling unless they want the prisoner experience at home. |
1. Dubai is not a country 2. On what ranking is Jordan the second poorest country in the world?! |