It’s not clear if Sophia gets the same citizenship rights as other Saudis. It’s also not clear if Sophia will be schooled in the distinctly strict Islamic teachings of sharia, the favored practice of Saudi’s Wahhabism. That’s the uber-conservative Islamic lifestyle that says, for instance, women can’t drive — and that pretty much everyone who doesn’t worship Allah in the proper manner is deserving of a beheading.
So just a question, just wondering: In the general scheme of strict Islamic things, where does Sophia fall on the scale of women’s rights?
Will Saudi’s women, for instance, who are already regarded as pretty much property — lower than dogs in some cases — now be pushed down the ladder of priorities even farther?
Sophia, in photographs at the conference, wasn’t wearing a burka. Yet real Saudi women do. That’s odd, yes?
Saudi’s opened the doors just recently for women to drive. And that’s a good thing — an about-freaking-time thing. But if Sophia and a whole army of robotic women are now going to come in and supplant Saudi’s females — become the public face of what Islam won’t allow out of the house without a head-to-toe black cloth covering — then this new technology isn’t just creepy. It’s wicked. It’s Wahhabi’s newest way of subjugating women — by making new ones with artificial minds that can easily be programmed and controlled.
It’s not clear if Sophia gets the same citizenship rights as other Saudis. It’s also not clear if Sophia will be schooled in the distinctly strict Islamic teachings of sharia, the favored practice of Saudi’s Wahhabism. That’s the uber-conservative Islamic lifestyle that says, for instance, women can’t drive — and that pretty much everyone who doesn’t worship Allah in the proper manner is deserving of a beheading.
So just a question, just wondering: In the general scheme of strict Islamic things, where does Sophia fall on the scale of women’s rights?
Will Saudi’s women, for instance, who are already regarded as pretty much property — lower than dogs in some cases — now be pushed down the ladder of priorities even farther?
Sophia, in photographs at the conference, wasn’t wearing a burka. Yet real Saudi women do. That’s odd, yes?
Saudi’s opened the doors just recently for women to drive. And that’s a good thing — an about-freaking-time thing. But if Sophia and a whole army of robotic women are now going to come in and supplant Saudi’s females — become the public face of what Islam won’t allow out of the house without a head-to-toe black cloth covering — then this new technology isn’t just creepy. It’s wicked. It’s Wahhabi’s newest way of subjugating women — by making new ones with artificial minds that can easily be programmed and controlled.