Derision is granted for the design of Qatar’s new “vagina stadium” for the 2022 World Cup which has surfaced on the weekend. Over the top phantasies in a boys’ country. But it also indicates that a phallic society may esteem its female private parts as well.

Whether construction work will actually start next year in Al Wakrah after guffaws of laughter is not so sure. True embarrassment, on the other hand, should be given rise to yesterday’s report by Amnesty International about slave labor in the oil and gas rich Gulf country’s construction sector.

19 November 2013 @ 8:10 am.

Last modified November 19, 2013.