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.

  • 2ugly2live
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    1231 month ago

    They can’t be seen, can’t speak, women’s voices cannot be heard (even by other women), and now they can’t have windows.

    At this point, if they have such a problem, leave the men inside in a windowless box and let women do the work. It’s men getting a half chub because they heard of someone thinking of a woman. Their obsession with women is so fucking weird. It’s like they’re the boogy man or some shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      981 month ago

      All these bans make it easier for abuse and violence against women and girls to proliferate

    • !i!i!i!i!i!
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      161 month ago

      Yeah it’s a weird fear fr. I wish I understood it but not sure if understanding it any better would make any difference. And that’s even more labour on women yet again to figure out why are these men so scurred of women’s agency? The imbalance is unconscionable.

      • 2ugly2live
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        51 month ago

        I’ll have to check it out. The Wiki makes it sound interesting already.

    • @JustAPenguin
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      21 month ago

      Not to support the Taliban but women are scary

      • 2ugly2live
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        101 month ago

        We have been known to shape shift.

  • @weeeeum
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    651 month ago

    Damn for a country that hates gay people, they REALLY hate looking at women.

    • palordrolap
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      261 month ago

      No, it’s more like each extremist Muslim doesn’t want any other man looking at any of his women, because he knows what he’d be unable to stop himself from doing if he saw someone else’s woman and assumes every other man is like that.

      And that line of thinking breeds generations of men who rather than might think that way, actually do think that way, making the rule even more necessary.

      It’s also a lot easier for a man to punish or beat a woman than it is another man, and it’s that line of thinking which turns women into property rather than people. And property can be treated however you like.

  • @expatriado
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    521 month ago

    just like Lemmy, the Taliban doesn’t like Windows

    • @[email protected]
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      191 month ago

      at your rate we’re gonna have a free tech stack before we have equality. The struggle against patriarchy is not a joke

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Aside from the obvious egregious human rights violations here, there’s going to be a lot of health repercussions for this.

    Not getting enough, or any sunlight can cause vitamin d deficiency which can cause a whole host of problems. Including if a woman breastfeeds without getting enough vitamin d her baby will also be deficient. Get ready for a bunch of children who are going to be at a high risk for developing rickets.

    I guess that’s the price they’re willing to pay to oppress women?

  • @dohpaz42
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    411 month ago

    Soooooo, instead of educating young boys and men about respect and decency, they instead force women to cover themselves completely, and now remove windows from buildings, because young boys and men can’t be trusted to be basic human beings?

    Yeah, you know you’re doing it right when you have to force other people to bend to your degeneracy.

    • Jolteon
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      91 month ago

      I think their goal is for the men to still be degenerate pigs, but only with a single woman.

    • @SkunkWorkz
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      Pederastry still happens in Afghanistan it’s called Bacha bāzi. They drug up a teenage boy and dress the boy up in women’s clothes. The boy has to dance in front of older men and then they rape the boy. They are gay pedophiles. This practice dates back to when that area was conquered by Alexander the Great.

  • @ronflex
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    361 month ago

    This just in: the taliban are afraid of women

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      Gun control is sexist. Women deserve the ability to defend themselves from those larger and stronger then them.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        Women needing to be safe isn’t an argument for increasing the availability of guns, it’s an argument for improving safety for women.

        If the objective is to protect women, allowing guns to circulate within the civilian population is counterproductive.

        On top of that, gun control is inherently not sexist because it doesn’t discriminate between gender.

  • @TheEighthDoctor
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    341 month ago

    Taliban are more afraid of women than /r/incel

  • @DarkSpectrum
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    341 month ago

    Why not remove Muslim men’s eyes so they can’t see women?

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      That’s the other guy that said that, the taliban follows a different guy who wandered about a desert.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        TBF they like that guy too. And the second guy didn’t suggest this - it’s all them and their weird homoerotic incel energy.

    • NutWrench
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      111 month ago

      It’s either that or they justify these repressive laws by saying men are lustful beasts who can never be trusted to contain their impulses. (And therefore those laws are for their “protection.”)

      This is an attitude shared by all of the “girls have cooties” religions.