I don't think we should give Apple a break. The reason men in Qatar behave the way they do is because they can, and girls like Apple allow them too, by pretending to be better then other women who stand up for their rights and treat men like equals rather then masters. She and others like her try and say that the reason western wives or western girls have trouble here is because they don't "know how to treat a man" when really it's that the men here don't know how to treat us because they are used to being able to push women around. They try and make strong independent women feel guilty for their hard won and hard kept independence. We are somehow "less than women" because of this. They feed the one and only argument that men like Drake have, that it's our fault we have problems because we don't know our "place" we aren't good enough mothers, or god fearing enough or whatever other weak excuse they can come up with to hide the fact that the real reason they date women like this is because they can't get a real woman with a brain and a backbone.

This is an attitude I'm am confronted with again and again throughout Asia and I am sick of it. It's degrading and demeaning.