Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?

[callicrates]

From an article about a clampdown on women's gyms in Saudia Arabia:

"Football and basketball are sports that require a lot of movement and jumping," Sheikh Abdullah al-Maneea, member of the official Supreme Council of Religious Scholars, said in a religious opinion published in Okaz newspaper Thursday.

He said such excessive movement may harm girls who are still virgins, possibly causing them to lose their virginity.

My brain is flatly refusing to process this. It's syntactically correct. All the pronouns and such agree. However, I cannot get my head around the distortion necessary for it to make sense.

Comments

[merlinofchaos]

Break the hymen, no longer a virgin. In our culture we tend to think of virginity as never having had intercourse, but in cultures that actually value it...and, well, treat women as the property of the family...the physical aspect of it matters. I find it deplorable, and there hasn't been enough pressure from the outside for Saudi Arabia to stop treating women like chattel.