Sexuality and the Middle Eastern City 2

I must admit, I am mildly obsessed with Carrie Bradshaw and her clan of insane gal pals. I love their independence and amazing sense of style, not to mention their sense of themselves. I recently purchased their latest movie, Sex and the City 2, and one scene stuck out in my mind.
Towards the end of the movie, Samantha (my absolute FAVORITE character..and probably the future me) has her purse ripped from her hands by men in a bizarre in Abu Dhabi. In her purse, among other things, are a myriad of condoms. For this, Samantha risks a jail sentence.

The issue in this blog is not the treatment of Arab women in Arab nations, but the treatment of all women, Arab or not, in Arab nations. The issue that is raised in this movie is the fact that women are supposed to be devoid of all sexuality and sexual experience, and this notion is not limited to the Middle Eastern countries, it is prevalent in our own experience in the United States.
We’re all well aware of the stereotypical of the repressed Middle Eastern woman behind the vale that is portrayed daily to us in the media.  However, how sexually liberated are we as women in the United States? Sure, women are legally able to be naked in magazines, but how accepted are those women in modern day society.

Let me pose this question to you. Do those women then have the ability to have professional jobs? Could they hold political office? What about female politicians who have affairs? Can they ever be considered serious politicians again? Let’s say for instance that Billy Clinton had in actuality been Beatrice Clinton. Given the same scandalous circumstances, her husband would have undoubtedly abandoned her, and she would have been ostracized. She would have gone down in history as the whoreific president that literally, and figuratively, soiled the white house.

This double standard between male and female sexuality is not limited to non-western countries. There is an identifiable double standard in our own homeland.