Imagine being so insecure that you need someone to literally hide every aspect of their being so that you don't get aroused and can't control yourself. Fucking weak-willed cowards.
This really sounds more like the men should be kept inside ...
If the sight or sound of a woman triggers their weak little boners, then yes.
What about drones zooming around with sweet women sounds? Is there a gofundme for that somewhere?
These countries must be stopped and everyone liberated. It's worse than life imprisonment.
Taliban men must be the weakest in the world if they can’t even hear a woman’s voice without being shoved into temptation. Do they all just instantly nut when a wrist bone slides out from the veil?! Talk about not having any confidence in themselves.
I understand temptation. You just have to, you know, resist. It’s called being a mature adult, or something along those lines.
They're no different from men anywhere else. It's only a justification for control.
Their thinking is so backwards and cognitively dissonant it is maddening. I wish the women could successfully rise up and overthrow these shitstain people that call themselves “men.”
Unfortunately quite a few of the women support it. The truth is there were enough supporters of democracy and sharia to make either work. The elite prefer sharia though because it offers more control and aligns with tribal structures better.
“This document not only violates Afghanistan’s domestic laws but also broadly contravenes all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”
They didn't think it could be done, but I knew I could do it. All 30 articles in one law!
— A Taliban, probably
Arab Republicans
Conservatives, of any religion or ethnicity.
You would think since it's the men that can't control themselves (per these assanine laws anyway), that they would have to stayed locked away somewhere. The women seem to be able to function just fine.
GOP taking notes..
Wow I can't believe these Taliban folks are so misogynistic. I for one am totally blindsided by this.
"Taliban". That rings a bell for some reason. I swear I've heard it before!
- women: * exist
-men: "QUIT MAKING US HORNY YOU HARLOTS!"
And they want tourists!
https://www.cnn.com/travel/afghanistan-tourism-under-the-taliban/index.html
Trust us, we won't chop your head off this time!
You know, when I read The Handmaid's Tale back in high school, I didn't think the ending made any sense. How do you have tourists just walking around taking pictures when there's horrible human rights violations happening in plain sight?
I think I get it now.
Honestly the accounts of the woman who visited almost bother me more than the men. Even as a tourist she wasn't allowed to do certain things, but she can just leave whenever she wants. Wonder how her friends among the locals feel about that.
good thing i have two heads
Conservatism is a global plague of oppression and death. It always has been.
Well, all Abrahamic religions oppress women but Islam wins by a long shot. It needs reformation and badly.
Their are many more moderate sects of Islam, they just didn't get all the US and Saudi $$$$ to spread their beliefs.
Not sure how right or wrong that is when taking into account the more moderate sections of it, but in this particular case, as the article says, it's not really about Islam. The holy texts don't really call for any of this.
Are you saying this is just toxic masculinity and militias run amok?
My understanding of Afghanistan's complex situation isn't sufficient to confirm or deny, sorry.
I'm not an anthropologist or a religion expert but you don't have to be one to notice that the most oppressive cultures towards women or gay people have one common denominator. Islam. Honour killings, marrying underage girls, do I need to keep going?
I've got to say, I'm having a very hard life and can't see a way forward to any sort of financial stability or security. But this would be a lot worse. Makes you think.
This is the system those people fight to maintain. So grateful I wasn't born there.
When the US left it really didn't take long, nor a lot of effort for the Taliban to take back control.
I think it's horrible to see what the Taliban government is doing to oppress the people of Afghanistan. I'm also surprised that so few people of Afghanistan showed any real will to prevent Taliban from taking power. They had 20 years to prepare, with ample support and loads of equipment from NATO and others, and when the foreign forces left they just ... capitulated.
It's baffling to me that seemingly nobody was willing to fight to prevent this. Thousands of people were at the airport during the last evacuations, and I vividly remember videos of people holding on to cargo planes that were taking off in an effort to get out of the country. Lots of people clearly knew it was going to get bad, but seemingly nobody was willing to fight to prevent it. I honestly have a hard time understanding how that happened.
That's because we knew the majority of them where just Taliban fighters that needed a job. So when we left, we basically left a bunch of gear to the Taliban fighters we just trained.
America trained their military for 20yrs and gave them billions in military equipment to be able to fight for themselves. They literally laid down and surrendered after a couple weeks.
That's the thing, though, they don't fight for it. They don't really fight against it, either.
Sooo I guess they can't order anything from a counter, tell employees what size they need etc.
So the men do all the shopping then, do they?
Please don't link MBFC. It is itself biased and inconsistent.
For example the Guardian has the same credibility rating as Breitbart. With far fewer failed fact checks.
Cool cool. Ferengi have infiltrated earth.
Ferengi prefer their feeeemales completely nude, thankyouverymuch.
Coming soon to a US State near you!
Women's rights won't be properly protected in the US unless we put a pussy grabber back in the White House instead of... (checks notes)... a woman.
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