For most women getting divorced is a heartbreaking and distressing life event they wish they could have avoided, for one Saudi teacher however, it was reason to celebrate.
The Arabic hashtag "a Saudi teacher celebrates her divorce in school" took Twitter by storm Thursday as it trended worldwide after a video showing the celebratory feast she prepared went viral on the site.
The feast included two wedding cakes, with one sliding off of the other. The groom is seen lying face-down on the sliding cake while the bride is kicking it away with her shoe. Not exactly your typical wedding cake.
"After her husband made her choose between divorce and the job! (Riyadh)"
"Two thousand congratulations" is written on the cake in Arabic, while a tiny blackboard on the table says "a burden and it has been lifted."
As Twitter users have pointed out, the teacher got divorced after her now ex-husband made her choose between her job and her marriage because he wanted her to quit her job to take care of the house.
Some users thought her celebration was inappropriate for a school setting, some thought it was immoral, and others even accused her of being psychologically unstable.
"Unacceptable, immoral and uncivilized behavior, why do you share your family's status with the school and teach the female students the phenomenon of celebration?!"
"Regardless of the reasons, there's a companionship that needs to be respected, does it make sense for someone to celebrate the most detested halal?" one user wrote.
Another wrote "If your relationship ends with someone, gather all their secrets and hide them somewhere, and forget about the place! Endings are morals!"
However, the hashtag was also flooded with overwhelming support from both men and women for her decision to keep working and her celebration of the end of the marriage, as conversations about feminism flared up in the congratulatory tweets.
"She is celebrating because she's confident about herself, her economic and social independence and about not needing a man to control her."
"I don't blame her for celebrating because divorce is not an easy matter and only a free woman who doesn't accept a life of shame with someone who doesn't appreciate her can go through with it."
"I liked her because she loved herself and her pride and her self-worth over the tyranny of an ignorant person. The career is my future and one of my priorities, and the rest comes after."