Swinging from one pole to the other

Five Saudi Arabian women, tired of the ultraconservative patriarchy of their Islamic country, decided to swing as far left as one can go (so far, anyway) for a solution, and got sex changes.

Al Watan newspaper said the five women underwent sex change surgery abroad over the past 12 months after they developed a "psychological complex" due to male domination.

Women in Saudi Arabia, which adopts an austere interpretation of Islam, are not allowed to drive or even go to public places unaccompanied by a male relative.

The newspaper quoted a senior cleric as saying the authorities have to fill what he described as a legal vacuum by issuing laws against sex change operations.

An interior ministry official told al Watan such cases are examined by religious authorities, and sometimes by psychologists, but those who undergo sex change are never arrested.

Just when you thought there wasn't anything else the Muslims could get mad at western culture about...

I tell ya what: women always screw things up. Uh, even if those women are men.