Un-Instinctual Instincts

Starting a blog for me is difficult.  I am a technical writer, so I want it to be perfect, but I also want to express emotions in a way that might insult a grammatically correct, step-by-step writer.

I am married to a man from Saudi Arabia, and I am, an American, Christian woman, who has recently traveled to Saudi Arabia with my three children.  My children are lovely.  They are smart, kind, emotionally-dependent, wonderful human beings that need all my attention all the time.  I love them so much, and I want such a great life for them.  I use my mothering IQ with them most of the time.  That is my intuition…and it works.  Most of the time I have an instinct as to what is wrong, and this really is the truth of it.  Yes, I consult “Google” when I have a question, but for the most part it reinforces the motherly instinct.  Now, Saudi Arabia…

Can you imagine putting on clothes because you are cold?  Of course, yes.  Now, imagine putting on clothes because you are made to…not because it is cold, but because you are living a tradition that requires you to.  Everyone in America, says no way, right?  I wouldn’t do it.  Why not?  I did it because it was the rule, but also because I love my husband, and now, I love his family too.  It may not be equal to require women to wear the Abaya, but it is what I faced.  Would you have said no?  Would it make a difference to say “no, I won’t wear it because my culture says I don’t have to?”  Or would you honor traditions and cultures, before stamping yours on them.  What I am saying is, I made a positive impression of America on his family by following certain traditions, being conservative (in ways that I am not) and being open to new experiences, so that his family thinks of America in a better light than they did before.

I don’t comment on a lot of issues, but I feel for everyone and everything that is happening from gun control to women’s issues (especially women’s issues) because I know the equality that does or does not exist, but I also know women that exist despite inequality, and they are AMAZING!  Women have always been amazing, everywhere…they are superhuman, super-instinctual beings that know everything.  Doesn’t matter the country, women should rule the world, but you know, men…