Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public | CNN
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Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are cracking down on the sound of women’s voices in public, under a strict new set of vice and virtue laws under the Islamist regime.
  • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
    115·
    3 months ago

    For the Taliban, women are sexual slaves whose sole purpose is to be baby making machines: they’re not human beings.

    • VubDapple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      3 months ago

      Who would be the servants and sexual submissives if women were free to do as they pleased?

    • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      3 months ago

      Conservative Sunni Islam’s attitude towards women basically boils down to men needing to see as little as possible of them, lest they become uncontrollably rapey. Shia are a little bit less misogynistic, and Sufi are significantly less so.

      • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        30·
        3 months ago

        Conservative Sunni Islam’s attitude towards women basically boils down to men needing to see as little as possible of them, lest they become uncontrollably rapey.

        I find that so utterly bizarre, like, you can’t control your sexual impulses like a normal person does unless every woman in your field of vision is dressed like a Halloween ghost?

        • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
          18·
          3 months ago

          It’s the woman’s fault, obviously!

          Edit: also, your comment is ironic given your username. One of the GOAT sexual deviants…

    • gcheliotis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Probably because many local women would outright reject the Taliban, as partners and as masters, if they had a say. Educated women especially would run circles around them.

  • bazus1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    3 months ago

    I feel like the Taliban rule workshopping is something like, “Okay, everyone write down ANYthing that get you off or arouses you. Alright, let’s see… ‘women’s feet,’ yeah, banned. ‘Clothes,’ okay banned. ‘Women singing.’ Y’all some fucked up, but also banned.”

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        I don’t know about you guys but even as a straigh dude, especially glorious beards can also have me staring and acting unwise…

        I say ban all beards.

        • bazus1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          As another straight dude, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I happen to have unrelated photos at the ready below.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      What often grates on me is the “We never should have left Afghanistan! Look at what they’re doing to women!!” folks abutting the “We need to respect their customs. These theocratic dictatorships are just like that and there’s nothing we can do” folks who turn a blind eye to all our allies on the Saudi Peninsula, the African coast, and the Indian subcontinent get up to.

      You need both in order to execute a new campaign of regime change, because arms and troops have to flow through friendly bases in India or Pakistan to get to Afghanistan. But the end policy only ever seems to be “we permit you to be horrible, so long as you’re committing these horrors on our team”.

      Would love for a genuine trans-national feminist movement. But when feminism is a dead letter in our friends in Japan, Poland, and Israel, how the hell is it supposed to penetrate to our enemies in Bad Korea, Afghanistan, and Cuba?

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        But when feminism is a dead letter in our friends in Japan, Poland, and Israel,

        The fuck

      • VubDapple@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        We don’t need to respect their customs. We need to respect their people, including their people’s need for emotional healthy relationships which are often in conflict with elements in their cultures that only feel entitled to dominate.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          3 months ago

          We don’t need to respect their customs.

          We do if we want to move military personal through their territory without resistance.

          Back when Americans were occupying Afghanistan, we had a seemingly unlimited tolerance for sexual abuse of minors and narco trafficking in the state. We needed the warlords to secure territory and the drug lords to underpin the local economy, in order to contain reactionary religious ideology.

          Only after we left did we rediscover our duty to Afghan civilians.

          people’s need for emotional healthy relationships which are often in conflict with elements in their cultures that only feel entitled to dominate

          I don’t know how else you describe detonating the world’s largest fuel bomb over Nangarhar Province, if you’re not describing it as “entitlement to dominate”.

          We weren’t in Afghanistan handing out hugs and flowers. We were killing dissidents en mass in order to suppress revolt.

          • VubDapple@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            3 months ago

            You’re describing the political reality and I get that, it’s expedient. But that doesn’t mean it is also moral.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              No, not at all. But then neither is looting the Afghani Treasury and sanctioning the country into a state of national famine.

  • huzzahunimpressively@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    3 months ago

    Once, I talked with a Muslim, and I said that they are afraid of women. He told me that they aren’t afraid of women; they respect them so much that they have to cover them and do all these kinds of things

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      30·
      3 months ago

      Obviously. How else would they protect them from their uncontrollable male urges?

      /S in case anyone gets confused…

  • exanime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    Well I’m happy a war was fought to liberate them and bring them the joys of deMoCRacy and cheap beer

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      The war in Afghanistan was lost the moment Bush switched gears to invade Iraq.

      He pulled resources out that never went back, and then Obama did the same to fight ISIL. And then Trump pulled even more out just because.

      As the years went on, more of the security was offloaded to a corrupt interm government that never quite managed to become self sufficient.

      When Trump did his pull out, he got Congress to pull funding. That funding was all that wa keeping the Afghani military going.

      Then Biden had to finish the pull out, and he did not stick the landing.

      Also bonus fun fact. The Taliban is very likely going to start the world’s first Water War. They’ve been damming and diverting rivers that their neighbors rely on.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Also, not making sure that the Afghan Army had all-female battalions.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    Can you believe it, MAGA has more in common with the Taliban and Russian neo-nazis than being American? At least, their platform reflects an obvious roadmap to these destinations.

  • SattaRIP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    This is taking victim blaming women for the mens’ reactions to their existence to a new level of so stupid it won’t work and will actually have the opposite effect in that people are MORE frustrated, sexually or otherwise.