WHY ARE THESE ARAB GUYS SO AFRAID OF THEIR WOMEN?

Now, I'm no psychiatrist or psychologist and don't play one on TV. I also think most of them are fools trying to figure out what everyone pretty much knows already, that some people have serious mental problems. Oh, I suppose it's a good thing that somebody's on the ball trying to unravel the human psyche, it's just that I'd prefer it to be some more regular people than the current crop of maladjusted creeps that seem to dominate that industry. These clowns have few social skills and all seem to reek of mental instability themselves, but yet they set themselves up as experts on what is and is not acceptable human behavior. Here's a clue, clinicians: behavior that harms others and annoys the crap out of most people are indications of a troubled mind. Nobody really cares about the other stuff.

Besides, in some societies being crazy is normal. Take the Arab male's fear of women, for example. What's crazier than that? Nobody needs Sigmund Freud to tell us that these guys have their heads buried in their asses and have more Mommy issues than Oedipus and Woody Allen rolled into one. Many Arab nations keep their women under house arrest for life. They insist on dressing them in body blankets covering them from head to toe, refuse them an education, grant them no civil rights, physically and mentally abuse them and treat them like property. How inadequate do these men feel? Or is their inadequacy something very real and they take it out on their women? Hard to tell at this point. And how long can the rest of the world turn a blind eye towards this as "cultural differences?" If Western societies treated their women as slaves, the world would be up in arms, and rightfully so. It's wrong by even a minimum standard of human decency.

And a lot of their women buy into this too, even some Westernized and educated ones. Talk about your Stockholm Syndrome. Plastic surgeons are making a fortune offering a medical procedure to restore their hymens so that they will appear to be virgins again so that when they marry one of these guys he can feel like a man. Or at least pretend to feel like a man, since real men don't give a rat's ass about marrying a virgin if they love the woman. If she's marrying you, then her past lovers don't matter, it's you she's choosing for life, you sniveling wimp! Arab women don't get to demand the same of their husbands. They can screw all the goats and teenaged boys they want to, both before and during their marriage, but a wife has to be "pure." Pure what? Compliant ciphers? You've got to be extremely mentally lazy to want a life's companion who by definition has no opinion, no self-worth and no knowledge of the world except what you would have her believe. I think the sun has gotten to their brains or something.

So these societies surrender half their citizens to slavery and ignorance and then complain bitterly that Western society has eclipsed them in living standards, technology, life expectancy, education and any measure of human progress you'd care to mention. If it wasn't for the dual accidents of human dependence on petroleum and where the stuff happens to be located, none of these societies would be prosperous. And when the oil is finished, then what? They can go back to.... who knows what? Whatever it is they did before oil, pretty much wandering around the barren wastes on camels eking out a grim living and making war on other tribes doing the same thing. That's what went on for the past 1,000 years before the oil boom. These bozos have given no indication anything will be different when the oil dries up.

Even with all the petroleum billions they have earned over the past century, it's not like any of these nations have provided the world or even their own citizens with any great universities, scientific advances, enlightened philosophies, job-creating industries, agricultural self-suffiency or great architecture. Other than dates and woven rugs, their only notable export has been jihad, a commodity no one wants to import. Even many of the so-called wealthy nations are filled with poor people while their kings and princes enjoy an unbelievably luxurious and decadent existence. The education systems are a sad joke, preparing few students for the modern world.

Somewhere someone is in the process of inventing petroleum's replacement. Actually, a lot of somebodies in a lot of places are doing just that, none of them in the Arab world. I suppose the thinking there is that they can go on being fearful and inadequate slave masters forever. That's another hallmark of mental illness, a huge capacity for self delusion. Unfortunately for the deranged, nobody else is convinced that you are really Napolean, and when you're a poor crazy person, nobody will even humor you anymore. Odds are even your women will notice what a bunch of weak jackasses you are. Good luck in the next 100 years.