What is it these days with politicians trying to score another term using cultural taboos? Or trying to protect us from ourselves by initiating a theo-fuzz department sponsored by that brainiac Jassmo Al-Saidi, and mannequins again by Majeedo Karimi…
But the actual facts speak for themselves, Bahraini men are much more insecure about relationships than their Bahraini women counterparts.
Interesting…
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The lingerie man’s back and he’s ‘furious’
That is a fantastic article on mannequins. I love the fact that Al Wefaqo Majeed Karimi’s “furious” that the other councillors are ignoring him. But he’s got to be bullshitting when he claims to have received complaints from guys aroused by mannequins, surely? What sort of sicko would admit to it? Exactly the same sort of person who’d spend his time hanging out with Karimi probably.
The passing of Jassim Al Saeedi’s legislation through the Lower House to set up Taliban-style Vice and Virtue squads is nice timing for the government – neatly illustrates what will happen if the Shura Council goes as demanded by the protestors at Sitra. Immediately you’ll see the self styled ‘morality police’ (ie wannabe terrorists, the sons of terrorists, the grandsons of terrorists) out on the streets.
The insecurity of Bahraini men?
Mahmood you got my email did you?
Am glad that some stupid proposals like that mannequin thing got ignored, total waste of time, not sure what this guy is thinkin, but if he can’t control himself and whomever he knows, why try and inflict it upon everybody.
About iljasmay, well this guy just wants to be the “Big Brother of Bahrain” by the looks of it. Nobody will actually bother and listen, everyone has their own level of decency that he doesn’t exceed, plus we have our parents, family and good friends to guide us, we don’t want any stranger comin up to lecture us.
Man, I really can’t wait till the next round of elections, I really want to see those ppl out of parliament, waste of money and time.
The insecurity of Bahraini men?
Why have a bill about mannequins, when you can have a religious copper monitoring the activities of young men fantasizing in front of ‘jameela’s’?
Re: The lingerie man’s back and he’s ‘furious’
Tariq Khonji ripped them a new hole today in his GDN column. Way to go Tariq!
Re: The lingerie man’s back and he’s ‘furious’
I’m trying to apply for a license to import rubber dolls.
I don’t think I’ll be able to somehow, but the intention of course is if men really get turned on by manniquins, then there MUST be a market for plastic.
Maybe I should talk to Awal Plastic to go IPO on us, that will certainly make a few more people rich. And while we’re at it, let’s buy shares in Johnson & Johnson.
WARNING: IF YOU’RE OFFENDED BY PLASTIC CREATIONS, DON’T CLICK THE LINKS!
Re(1): The lingerie man’s back and he’s ‘furious’
Ha! I love the rubber dolls link, what lunacy!
Gotta tell you, 3 years ago FHM had a list of the worst jobs in the world, from 1 to 10, the number 1 worst job in the wrold, in their opinion, was this guy whose job it was to spray the pubic region of these inflatables with brown paint. The photo that accompanied it was of him sitting on an old chair in this factory with about 60 dolls all lined up waiting to aquire some “pubic hair”.
Add that to your C.V.!
The 2nd worse job was extracting semen from a horny killer whale (wearing clotchless panties and a peek-a-boo bra)
Live long and prosper!!
The insecurity of Bahraini men?
The insecurity of Arab men, especially in the gulf, is 50% of the problem in the Middle East at the moment. It fuels the anti-women rhetoric and violence. It is also one of the reasons more Arabic women like myself are marrying Western men, despite our governments efforts to stop this.
In the west it is my experience that we avoid Arab men as much as possible. It doesnt matter if they were born here or not, the old culture still rises when it counts. The is why we look for and try to marry western men. Alhamdulillah, but there are more converts out there to choose from. I know about a half dozen Arab women in my area alone that have married western men. Sometimes their families had issues, more often than not they saw that Arab women, raised in the west, are simply incompatable with Arabic men.
Re(2): The lingerie man’s back and he’s ‘furious’
Didn’t they ban FHM? Or did they turn it into something like this?
Re: The insecurity of Bahraini men?
Yes Khalid I did, thank you for the email.
I agree that Jassim Al-Saidi is a complete waste of time, personally and professionally as far as I’m concerned. However, I fear that we will both not be surprised when he gets re-elected with a majority. He is one of the most active campaigners I have witnessed so far in Bahrain. The guy is good and he goes for things that appeal to his constituents whom he seems to have figured out to the nth degree.
To me Al-Saidi is not a member of parliament but a municipal councellor. All of his proposals and wishes are for things to do excelusively with his constituency. It looks that he doesn’t give a damn about any other area in Bahrain and he gets himself involved in committees and supports legislation that clearly favour displaying him in a good light to his voters and to hell with the rest.
The guy is good. In that respect.
But a disaster for Bahrain.
Re: The insecurity of Bahraini men?
Exactly. And I’m adopting the phrase which I have read somewhere (so I can’t take credit for) of TheoFuzz (Theocratic Police, or Theocratic Pigs depending on which culture you come from) to describe the dimwits who are going to volentarily be in these “committees,” the people who support them and of course to the BIG cahouna who suggested the bill in the first place, oh and not forgeting the completely impotent, brain-dead, parliament which has a collectively lower IQ than a full nappy to pass such a bill.
Re: The insecurity of Bahraini men?
I don’t agree with you there… if marriage is arranged of course it is a different thing alltogether, however if marriage is the result of love, then love is blind and the last thing a couple would look for is justifications and cultural compatiblities. That comes later.
Or am I being a romantic?
The insecurity of Bahraini men?
I dont know what you are agreeing with or not Mahmood in your earlier post, but I do agree with the post above that when looking at the current leadership of men in our part of the world (be it political or religious or governmental), they seem to have some major issues with women.
I think our society breeds hyopocracy and double standards. I think our society is actually quite tolerant of everything as long as it is done behind closed doors. I think we need to open up and call a spade a spade. And I think that the women who end up bringing up their sons like they are gods need to wake up and smell the gahwa and start realizing that they are doing no-one any favors. I also think that we need to get this blasted personal effects law off the ground and start dealing with both men and women equally by givng them both equal financial opportunities.
And, I have been following, albiet from afar, issues of sexual/domestic abuse in this country. Before we start preaching about what a great society we are and how we want to preserve traditional values, I think that we need to tak a long hard look at how disfunctional we really are. And whether we really are that much better off. We dont even have a shelter where women can stay overnight! Hello! I wish Jassem Al Saeedi would focus on these topics .. instead of the religious police. And with all due respect to the women, as long as they act like victims and then perpetuate the crimes .. well, what comes round goes round.
JJ
Agalmatophilia
Doesn’t Majeed Karimi deserve credit for bringing a recognised psychological condition, Agalmatophilia (sexual attraction to dolls, statues and mannequins), out in to the open? Surely, he deserves our respect – as do those men brave enough to discuss their condition with their elected representative. Instead what do they get – constant mocking.
For more details of this most debilitating condition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agalmatophilia
Re: The insecurity of Bahraini men?
Religion shouldn’t even be an issue.
Would you rather marry a convert who takes certain Koranic verses literally, or an Atheist who respects you as a human?