Re: Pole dancing (for fitness) comes to Saudi Arabia..
That’s not what it says in the article. Don’t know what she’ll accomplish from this but knowing how sensitive/conservative Saudis can be about these things, she has probably offended the women in that very system so it just defeats the purpose, not many are going to rebel against the system to follow someone who they think did something distasteful… she’s either not smart enough and this controversy was unintentional or she’s very smart for having thought of this publicity stunt.
That is why you choose not to live there but those who do despite having enough money to move elsewhere do so because life isn’t all that extreme. You will see women standing up against the driving ban or speaking up for equal rights at workplace etc but I haven’t seen many protesting against the abaya… infact they take as much interest in designer abayas as we do in designer shalwar kameez.. so that just goes to show that they sorta like bits of the system that we can’t live with. Even expat women enjoy a western lifestyle inside the so-called compounds where rules of the off-compound society don’t apply.