# Men expelled from Saudi Arabia for being just too good looking **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2013, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922 "2013-04-17T09:30:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/61 "2013-04-26T14:50:30Z")
> [@adhemar](#): > > those look like head shots for a modeling portfolio. He is an Emirati actor, so those are indeed professional shots of him. As far as I can tell, he seems to be letting this whole fracas work as publicity in his favor. (and yeah, why wouldn’t he - he’s definitely handsome! But it seems a little more like a _Zoolander_ response than any righteous indignation.) ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/62 "2013-04-26T15:20:31Z")
I don’t think too much about the whole thing - transference much? I think he is the cutest little actor around, seriously yummy but I wouldn’t just randomly jump his bones. You could leave me in a room alone with him and he would be perfectly safe. [hell, he stands a fair chance of being gay for what it is worth, he just really pings my gaydar] To be perfectly blunt, I can say that I have never really heard about a guy being raped by some married woman in the same manner that a woman is in danger of being raped. [you know, forced down, legs spread and violently raped.] I am not saying that it couldn’t happen, but to be blunt, I would be more afraid for myself in the middle east than I would about some random pretty boy [unless it was male on male rape] ---
**Author:** ![Among\_Liberals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Among\_Liberals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Among_Liberals)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/63 "2013-04-26T15:32:48Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Vonnegut’s short story _[Harrison Bergeron](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron)_. Read that back in school and thought it was interesting. A good look at notions of what social equality can mean, in a literal sense. I think people on SDMB would be interested. ah, sorry for potential derail ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/64 "2013-04-26T15:41:32Z")
Um, it looks like they were just [ejected from a festival](http://www.arabianbusiness.com/uae-men-too-handsome-for-saudi-festival-498216.html#.UXqfX8rrOVM)for being too handsome, not the entire country. > [@](#): > > “A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission members feared female visitors could fall for them,” the newspaper said. And [here](http://imgur.com/KdEpK6j) are the others. I gotta admit, I think they have a point. ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/65 "2013-04-26T16:21:35Z")
Good looks are based primarily on health and youth. I’m a straight dude but I can tell which guys I would consider good-looking. Certainly, it is an eye-of-the-beholder type deal. I find most people to be genuinely attractive in their own way. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/66 "2013-04-28T01:40:10Z")
Three Emirati delegates to a cultural festival in Saudi Arabia were seized and deported after the Saudi Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice deemed them “too handsome” for fear of them inspiring lustful feelings in women, [says the Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/10000341/Saudi-Arabia-deports-irresistible-men-deemed-too-handsome-to-women.html). You can see pictures of one of the delegates, [Omar Borkan Al Gala, here](http://jezebel.com/meet-the-man-who-was-deported-from-saudi-arabia-for-bei-480273484)– and GODDAMN is he good-looking! Still, this must surely be the oddest reason for someone to be deported from any country I’ve ever heard. _For real, there is no way I wouldn’t forsake my heterosexuality for this man. Look at him! Sweet Jesus, I feel like when he walks into a room it must be the polar opposite of the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where they open the Ark of the Covenant; no one’s face melts and everyone feels like they have been touched by the hand of God._ – my favorite comment on the internet in regards to this story. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/67 "2013-04-28T01:44:13Z")
ongoing thead: [Men expelled from Saudi Arabia for being just too good looking](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=688363) ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/68 "2013-04-28T02:26:10Z")
In between the eyeliner and how well groomed he is, I’m guessing gay. Those lucky gay bastards. Him and Enrique Iglesias should have a handsome competition. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/69 "2013-04-28T02:55:27Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > [Really](http://gawker.com/5994825/men-deemed-too-handsome-deported-from-saudi-arabia-for-fear-they-would-be-irresistible-to-women). > > That’s got to make for great pick-up lines. “Hey baby, I’m so sexy I’ve been officially declared a _national threat_!” Pics? I’d like to judge for myself ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/70 "2013-04-28T03:04:30Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Wesley, I don’t always get it either. Ryan Gosling? Really? Michael Cera - maybe cute in a dorky kind of way. The only thing I can think of is that sometimes handsome = famous. > > (There are famous men I find handsome who I think are just traditionally handsome - Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds, Paul Newman - well not anymore - and famous guys I find attractive but I know aren’t classically handsome - Matt Damon). Michael Cera is not cute at all. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/71 "2013-04-28T03:06:32Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > Well, OK. The Saudis had a point. Link no worky ☹ ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/72 "2013-04-28T03:07:34Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Um, it looks like they were just [ejected from a festival](http://www.arabianbusiness.com/uae-men-too-handsome-for-saudi-festival-498216.html#.UXqfX8rrOVM)for being too handsome, not the entire country. > > And [here](http://imgur.com/KdEpK6j) are the others. > > I gotta admit, I think they have a point. Holy hell they are hot ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/73 "2013-04-28T03:14:18Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > Michael Cera is not cute at all. I second…even third…this. Adorably goofy looking, but not cute. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/74 "2013-04-28T12:39:22Z")
It must just be me then, but I don’t find them particularly worth the bother… ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/75 "2013-04-28T13:06:37Z")
One of the guys was the [Hot Slut of the Day](http://dlisted.com/2013/04/25/hot-slut-day) on my favorite gossip site the other day. There are several pictures\* and a few of them are cheesetastic. He’s a good looking guy, but he doesn’t really trip my trigger. \*Most of the pictures are at the bottom of the post. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/76 "2013-04-28T16:44:34Z")
He’s handsome but too skinny and too pretty boy. I like a manly man who has a bit of meat on him, someone with whom I can relax and have fun without worrying about hurting him. Michael Cera looks like a little boy. Ryan Gossling is weird looking. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/77 "2013-04-28T19:54:06Z")
> [@sahirrnee](#): > > He’s handsome but too skinny and too pretty boy. > > I like a manly man who has a bit of meat on him, someone with whom I can relax and have fun without worrying about hurting him. What kind of stuff are you doing with men that he looks like someone you would worry about hurting? You shouldn’t be on here, you should be somewhere writing your memoirs! 😉 Seriously though, I’m not trying to talk you into liking him because he doesn’t do anything for me either but [he looks breakable](http://dlisted.com/files/imagecache/photo-preview/files/galleries/hsotdombarb1.jpg) to you? He looks like lean muscle to me which isn’t something I’d consider fragile at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/78 "2013-04-28T20:16:47Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > What kind of stuff are you doing with men that he looks like someone you would worry about hurting? You shouldn’t be on here, you should be somewhere writing your memoirs! 😉 > > Seriously though, I’m not trying to talk you into liking him because he doesn’t do anything for me either but [he looks breakable](http://dlisted.com/files/imagecache/photo-preview/files/galleries/hsotdombarb1.jpg) to you? He looks like lean muscle to me which isn’t something I’d consider fragile at all. I don’t know that I could hurt him, but I would feel like I could. He has muscles, but he’s still too skinny. I supposed I could get used to it if I _had_ to. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/79 "2013-05-02T18:15:18Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > and famous guys I find attractive but I know aren’t classically handsome - Matt Damon). Matt Damon is not classically handsome? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922/80 "2013-05-02T18:32:35Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > What kind of stuff are you doing with men that he looks like someone you would worry about hurting? You shouldn’t be on here, you should be somewhere writing your memoirs! 😉 > > Seriously though, I’m not trying to talk you into liking him because he doesn’t do anything for me either but [he looks breakable](http://dlisted.com/files/imagecache/photo-preview/files/galleries/hsotdombarb1.jpg) to you? He looks like lean muscle to me which isn’t something I’d consider fragile at all. Wow [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-expelled-from-saudi-arabia-for-being-just-too-good-looking/655922.md?page=3)