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FMF News—Textbooks in Saudi Arabia Feature Photographs of ladies: "The very first time within the good reputation for public education in Saudi Arabia, new books will feature photographs of ladies. The books, created for third year senior high school British students, have a lady like a nurse going to give someone a shot. Within the photograph, she's putting on a headscarf along with a surgical mask. The photograph can also be supported by a workout asking students to go over males and women's altering participation in traditional jobs. The books also picture a lady inside a science lab."That's amazing. I am so thrilled for that ladies and women of Saudi Arabia!Discuss why we want feminism. * * *Because threads about feminist progress (or even the lack thereof) in Arabic nations have this inclination to rapidly devolve into clusterfucks of Othering, I wish to encourage visitors to think about the ways that misogyny works in (the broadly and inexactly named) Western culture exactly the same way it really works in Saudi Arabia.Like, for example: Might we have the ability to draw a parallel between your invisibility of female forms in public places books and also the invisibility of female forms in public places signs?It isn't very easy to condescendingly dismiss as irrevocably backwards a culture by which one sees commonalities to a person's own.