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It's not alien to me, I was raised Muslim. But "culture" or "religion" don't get passes on misogyny and sexism, for those reasons. Believe me - I already know a conservative Saudi male doesn't care what I or any other woman thinks. [/quote]
Sexism is cultural.  A conservative Saudi male will think you are being sexist by openly looking at a woman, and he is being respectful of her by not inconveniencing her with his gaze. A conservative Muslim woman will not want to suffer your looks.  Who are you to tell her that she should?[/quote]

Saying sexism is "cultural," is like saying racism is cultural. Just because it may be the norm in a certain niche or region, doesn't make it ok by overarching human values.

Michelle Obama is not a conservative Muslim woman, and I don't think she takes any offense to shaking a man's hand. Nor do many/most Muslim women. Cultural relativist bullshit concerning sexism doesn't have a place in modernity. [/quote]
And yet it does, and your indignation doesn't make it go away.  If a conservative person doesn't wish to shake hands with a person of an opposite gender, that is their right. [b]Who are you to force physical contact on people who don't desire it?[/b]

No one is preventing Michelle Obama from shaking hands with people who don't mind it. [/quote]

Nobody is saying that. You don't want to shake hands with one particular person? Ok. But there is no equivalence in saying you don't shake hands with an entire demographic, based strictly on sexism. Just like it's not ok to say you don't shake hands with black people, because you just respect them so much.

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Good thing that although the media chose to show one guy not shaking her had, a lot of other Saudis DID. Newsflash, some news organizations manipulate tha truth.
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