Video challenges various bans imposed by Saudi government on women. YOUTUBE SCREENGRAB
The clip titled 'Hwages' shows burqa-clad women dancing, skating, playing basketball and singing.
The video begins by condemning the country's "guardianship system" which prohibits women from travelling without a male guardian. The director mocks the ban on women driving as he shows women getting in the back seat of a car, only to realise that their driver is a young boy, thus implying that men in the country have no restrictions.
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The women are then shown riding toy scooters, skateboarding and singing on the streets, ignoring men who gesture them to stop. "May all men disappear from the earth. They give us psychological illnesses," the women chant in one of the verses, according to The Daily Dot.
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The video was uploaded on YouTube on December 23 and has since received over two million views. Many took to Twitter to praise the concept behind the video.
https://twitter.com/manal_alsharif/status/812752830742335488
https://twitter.com/SeharMufti/status/813053110755196929
Saudi women are smashing all the stereotypes in this viral music video https://t.co/CI9rYWWbxc Skateboarding, shooting hoops and epic moves.
— Farhan Siddiqui (@Farrenhite) December 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/amyharvard_/status/813815200541446144
I see you #Saudi ladies https://t.co/GejEvpG3tP… more please @Majedalesa @8iesS #هواجيس break the system pic.twitter.com/xr5R3uEov8
— valerie szybala. (@vszyb) December 29, 2016
Soundtrack of my life https://t.co/lxFJo9Xt1f
— 👾 (@weeii99) December 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/alialsaeed/status/814049535865618432
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