Taliban ban windows to stop women being seen inside homes
Taliban ban windows to stop women being seen inside homes
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.
They're called the Taliban, not the Taliallow
Fuck it, have the upvote
The Talibans are soo gay they don't even want to know about the existence of women.
They should probably just ban women outright until they learn how to live beside women responsibly
I REALLY want to find an arab woman who's lived under taliban rule, but also speaks english. I really want to ask her a hypothetical question.
I live in America. I see naked women quite frequently. I live in a society where I've literally gone in public, and seen women wearing a thong bikini, basically made of dental floss, and no top.
The logic of the taliban is that women cannot reveal their bodies to men, or it will FORCE the men to abuse and rape the women. I have frequently been in the presense of naked and near naked women. I am a man. I have never beat or raped a woman.
So I want to ask a woman who's had experience first hand living with the taliban.
Would you feel safer living naked with me everyday? Or fully clothed everyday with the taliban?
Great idea .... just get them to export all the women, then when they want children, ship their semen over, artificially inseminate the women, keep female children, send male children after a few years old to live in Afghanistan with their all male family. Just ban women completely from the country.
There’s an Anime that did gender segregation in a similar way (and for similarly chauvinistic reasons), but on a planetary scale - Vandread.
Until? That's criminally generous.
It would be much easier if they blindfolded men.
To stop women from being able to see out. Isolation is torture. One less escape route.
This shit is terrifying.
Jesus fucking Christ. I hadn't considered that.
Taliban bringing the year of the Linux desktop closer wasn't on my bingo card.
Jokes, but I'm surprised how these misogynistic shitheads can reproduce with how they are afraid of women.
They re not afraid of using women as domestic appliances for reproduction and housekeeping, because they are objects, property. They have problems with other men eyeing their property.
The answer is rape
Weak men bring sick times.
year of the Linux desktop
I saw the headline and was like, "well the Lemmy crowd would love this". One half loves authoritarian regimes, the other half hates windows.
A lot of these stories are thinly sourced and heavily embellished. Any time you read "Enemy county on other side of world does extremely bizarre thing to entire population" headline, take it with an enormous grain of salt.
American tabloid media loves to lie, in order to help justify past and future military conflicts and to stir up hostility against foreign populations.
It's the same hysterical bullshit we saw in the US, with Trump insisting Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats.
Are you suggesting they are manufacturing consent? In my American media?
Why don't they just blind all the men who can't control themselves?
Duct tape over their eyes should save them from their uncontrollable, sinful, urges.
Why can't they just cover women in mud ? Because the last time I checked They do kill men who can't & can control themselves
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.
"My invisible friend in the sky is better than yours !!!"
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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."
Reminds me if that weird movie the film professor made us watch. Where the guy see the girls ankle because if the wind and then chases her down to rape her. I don't understand wtf this was for but I strongly suggest porn to desensitize if this is the alternative.
Okay my first thought this is Microsoft Windows, and was very confused how people can be seen though a OS. And I later convinced myself maybe this is about Zoom calls.
Ha
I thought they see it as a spyware
I mean, they are not entirely wrong...
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?
Yeah they already took care of women in policing and girls in school.
What “obscene acts” are they referring to? Are they afraid someone might see a woman reading a book?
They are afraid a man seeing a woman will cause him to rape her.
That’s probably what they’re thinking. (And they should totally lock those men up…)
But I’m thinking the real problem is that they were sending messages through the windows and they can’t have that.
THE HORROR!!!
They all have Android-Smartphones and access to Porn. What does Windows have to do with it?
/s
I was also confused about what Microsoft has to do with women being seen in their homes 🤣
LOL, how about just move back to caves
How backwards and idiotic a religion can become.
Are they going to ban women breathing next?
I think their point is to kill al women so they have reason to be openly gay or just fuck goats.
I wonder how much more they can isolate woman. Next up, woman must be sealed in jars.
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.
Fry them all.
Oh don't worry that's just the multipolar world kicking in
Is that the new dance craze? A little Charleston, some Stanky Leg, and a conga line finale can-can, we have the Taliban Ban?
Come Mr taliban, taliban bananas
Linux users in Afghanistan:
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.
You mean 2 decades of occupation murder and bombing didn't make them more liberal? Who'd've thought
Buddy, these cretins aren't ever going to be anything even close to center... regardless of what the usa does
these cretins
Racism makes everything so simple doesn't it