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seveneyes

(4,631 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 08:36 AM Mar 2014

ABC Family Pulls Plug On Alice In Arabia Pilot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/22/alice-in-arabia-abc-family_n_5012643.html

ABC Family will not go forward with its "Alice In Arabia" pilot, a project about an American girl kidnapped by her Saudi royal family and forced to live with them.

The network released a statement and said, "The current conversation surrounding our pilot was not what we had envisioned and is certainly not conducive to the creative process, so we’ve decided not to move forward with this project."

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ABC Family Pulls Plug On Alice In Arabia Pilot (Original Post) seveneyes Mar 2014 OP

Golly! And it seemed like such a respectful and sensitive narrative. Orrex Mar 2014 #1

Respect and sensitivity shown to women in Saudi Arabia seveneyes Mar 2014 #2

they should have changed it up a little bit snooper2 Mar 2014 #3

Or an Indian woman forced to work for an Indian diplomat in New York Orrex Mar 2014 #4

The Burden of Being Female in Saudi Arabia seveneyes Mar 2014 #5

Orrex

(63,225 posts)

1. Golly! And it seemed like such a respectful and sensitive narrative.

Reply to seveneyes (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:14 AM

Mar 2014

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)

2. Respect and sensitivity shown to women in Saudi Arabia

Reply to Orrex (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:21 AM

Mar 2014

Yeah, women are treated as equals by men there. Everything is just peachy for women in Saudi Arabia.

It's a wonder that women everywhere are not rushing to move there and enjoy life to its fullest.

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

3. they should have changed it up a little bit

Reply to Orrex (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:22 AM

Mar 2014

How Alice was a young girl from Thailand and forced to work for a Saudi Princess living in L.A.

Orrex

(63,225 posts)

4. Or an Indian woman forced to work for an Indian diplomat in New York

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:32 AM

Mar 2014

The episodes simply write themselves!

seveneyes

(4,631 posts)

5. The Burden of Being Female in Saudi Arabia

Reply to seveneyes (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:13 AM

Mar 2014

http://muftah.org/burden-female-saudi-arabia/

Yes, women in Saudi Arabia are banned from driving, subjected to an oppressive male-guardianship system and living on the unfortunate side of gender segregation. While these are major obstacles for women’s progress in the country, such an innately oppressive system naturally trickles down into smaller aspects of everyday life. These little indignities can indeed break a woman, and I confess I am a woman extremely close to being broken.

I never thought much about my gender identity until I moved back to Saudi Arabia as a young adult. Small instances of gender discrimination would take place regularly, but at some point in time those experiences built up to leave me feeling something I had never felt before: that being female is an absolutely exhausting burden to bear.

What exactly were these small everyday events that pushed me over the edge?

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