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.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    3 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.world
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      3 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.ml
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    4 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?

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      3 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.”

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    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.

    • josefo@leminal.space
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      4 days ago

      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.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      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.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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?

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          No need to burst into outrage over details while burring the lede. Why is this so common around here? Yes, the question can be phrased more sensibly but that’s not important and it’s largely inconsequential to their point. Jfc. lol

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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            4 days ago

            What do you mean burying the lede?? His entire creepy post was about asking Afghani women if they would rather live under the taliban or naked in his house.

            What kind of a sicko wants to ask that?

            • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.world
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              4 days ago

              I believe the intent was, “Don’t you find it odd that I’ve never beaten or raped a woman, if it is ostensibly inevitable?” Or “How do you explain that I’ve never…”

              But it’d make more sense to ask a misogynistic Afghani man. E.g. “Wouldn’t you rather your wife live naked in my home?”

              • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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                4 days ago

                If your goal is to appear less misogynistic - maybe don’t concentrate so much on naked women living in your house?

                Goddamn.

                • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  4 days ago

                  NGL, you read like you’re doom-gripping your shaft while you type.

                  eg. “If your goOooOoal is to appearrr less misAHgynistic-c-c — maybe ^ohygod DON’T concentrate unh. yeah so much on naked WIM’n living in your house?!

                  ^Goddamn.

        • Shou@lemmy.world
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          5 days ago

          No they are not. What do you think happens behind closed doors/windows?