The Taliban have taken multiple steps to walk back women's rights including forbidding education for girls beyond grade six and banning women from universities.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23718803

Summary

The Taliban have banned windows in homes that allow views of areas where Afghan women might be seen, citing concerns over “obscene acts.”

This new decree mandates blocking or obstructing such windows in existing and new buildings, continuing the group’s systemic repression of women since regaining control of Afghanistan in August 2021.

The Taliban’s policies have included bans on women’s education, public appearances, and voices.

Critics, including the U.N., warn these actions dangerously erode human rights, while activists call out global inaction over the ongoing oppression.

  • visnae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    6 days ago

    The Talibans are soo gay they don’t even want to know about the existence of women.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    6 days ago

    The treatment of women in these Islamofascist dictatorships is our version of the holocaust and we’re all just sitting by and watching.

    I don’t know what we could even do, but I’m always filled with so much sadness thinking about the women and girls in those countries.

    Fuck religion and every preacher scheister spreading that shit.

    • Snowclone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Christo-faschists in the US are gonna control every part of our goverment and they want women losing the rights to have a period without government intervention.

  • hactar42@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    7 days ago

    Seriously, what is the point of trying to control women this way? Or really in any matter? I’ve never understood it. Are people really that scared and threatened by women? What is the end game for people who do things like this?

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      Individually, they’re probably racing for social status by demonstrating more extreme versions of the existing set of rules.

      It’s a common thing in human cultures to gain social status by exemplifying a more extreme version of whatever the social norm is.

      In this case, the norm got established as “special niche for women” and now it’s a runaway process of status-seeking.

      Kinda like peacocks and their feathers. Instead of sexual selection in the case of peacocks, this is social selection as men compete for higher and higher status by having more and more ridiculous displays of “look how well I embody this control women rule”.

      So it’s not like they’re trying to engineer some specific social benefit. That is, ostensibly, the reasoning. But in actuality, each man who proposes or backs and further encroachment on the women is doing so for his own selfish gain: in the form of social status.

      Kinda like there’s no utilitarian value to having ridiculously huge hats, but a person in a culture where big hats signal status can gain prestige by putting on a bigger hat.

      This is social status seeking, in the form of purity demonstration.

      • hactar42@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        6 days ago

        Thanks, that helps me understand it better. In my head I was comparing it to systems like apartheid. Which with apartheid there are clear economic benefits for the oppressors. Like cheap/slave labor and by having more opportunities than others. I’m not saying I agree with any of that, but I see why people would do it. But with the Taliban being such a part a patriarchal society to begin with, you would think at some point the oppression would have negative impacts on the oppressors. Of course, there I go trying to apply logic and reasoning for hatred and oppression.

        I think the peacock comparison you made is perfect. I still can’t comprehend how anyone could belittle another person to make themselves feel better, but it tracks. Thanks for the great response.

      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yup. In any group you’ll always have those who seek status by being more extreme than the rest. Others in the group feed this by giving them their applause and attention. You see this in even something as trivial as a shared interest groups like hiking or biking. Here the Taliban making this decision (and not all of them want this) are showing they are “more devout and better Muslims than the rest” and also trying to justify their positions.

        It is also a good way to deflect attention from the fact that the economy is shit and the Taliban have been lousy rulers.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      6 days ago

      One way to win support is to pit one group against another. It makes them (the ones on top) feel good and deflects attention from those in charge. Here the woman are used to being treated poorly and many of them even aid in their own oppression. “This is the way it has always been.”

  • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    7 days ago

    Really glad that they solved so many problems that peeping toms are now the biggest problem in the country. That’s what’s happening here, right?

    • LordBucaq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      6 days ago

      I think their point is to kill al women so they have reason to be openly gay or just fuck goats.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    So basically you can’t have windows in any building in an urban area because you can draw a line of sight to some place where woman are.

  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.orgEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    I always think about how they think this will work in the longterm. If you completely ban woman from all places and want to cover their existence you will create an environment where you simply kill your country by lowering the birthrates. When there are no places to date this will affect the birthrates in a way that, in the longterm, you will not be able to support your country because there aren’t enough people to support everything.