{"id":4210,"date":"2023-12-11T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/saudi-women-mock-you-cant-drive-hashtag-as-they-get-ready-to-take-to-the-roads\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:12:23","slug":"saudi-women-mock-you-cant-drive-hashtag-as-they-get-ready-to-take-to-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/saudi-women-mock-you-cant-drive-hashtag-as-they-get-ready-to-take-to-the-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi women mock \u2018You can\u2019t drive\u2019 hashtag as they get ready to take to the roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        Female social media users have commandeered an Arabic Twitter hashtag that translates to &#8220;You can&#8217;t drive&#8221;.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Saudi Arabia prepares to lift its decades-long ban on women driving, social media users there are divided over the change.<\/p>\n<p>An Arabic hashtag translated as \u201cYou Won\u2019t Drive\u201d has been used by some men on Twitter to show their dissatisfaction with the plan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-sticky-floor c-advertising-sticky-floor sales-advertising-sticky-floor u-hide-for-medium\"><button class=\"c-ad__btn-close\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"this.parentElement.classList.add('u-hide-for-all')\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/icons\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/button><\/div>\n<p>However, it has now been taken over by female social media users, who have shared it alongside pictures of their dream cars and Saudi Driving School books.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user wrote \u201cWe\u2019ll drive while your watching\u201d alongside the hashtag and a video of a girl driving a toy car.<\/p>\n<p>Women in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to drive in the kingdom next month under a royal decree issued in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Driving schools for women have been set up across five cities in the conservative country, with women aged 18 and over allowed to apply for a licence.<\/p>\n<p>The change is one of a series of social reforms&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/05\/17\/saudi-women-mock-you-can-t-drive-hashtag-as-they-get-ready-to-take-to-the-roads\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female social media users have commandeered an Arabic Twitter hashtag that translates to &#8220;You can&#8217;t drive&#8221;. ADVERTISEMENT As Saudi Arabia prepares to lift its decades-long ban on women driving, social media users there are divided over the change. An Arabic hashtag translated as \u201cYou Won\u2019t Drive\u201d has been used by some men on Twitter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-politics-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}