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.

  • @DarkSpectrum
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    344 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      54 days 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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        13 days 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.

  • 2ugly2live
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    1226 days 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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      986 days 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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      166 days 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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        55 days ago

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

    • @JustAPenguin
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      25 days ago

      Not to support the Taliban but women are scary

      • 2ugly2live
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        105 days ago

        We have been known to shape shift.

  • @weeeeum
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    655 days ago

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

    • palordrolap
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      265 days 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.

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    114 days ago

    And just when I thought the Taliban’s laws against women were too extreme already, they decide to do this. They quite literally can stoop way lower than I thought.

    I feel so bad. Thanks for ruining my first day of 2025, Taliban.

  • @ronflex
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    365 days ago

    This just in: the taliban are afraid of women

    • @[email protected]
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      4 days 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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        44 days 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.

  • @Tin
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    104 days ago

    When do we get to the part of the episode where James T Kirk, prime directive be damned, finds the meglomaniacal computer controlling these men, and blows it up?

    • @[email protected]
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      23 days ago

      Have you any idea how it feels to be a fembot… living in a manbot’s manputer’s world?

  • @[email protected]
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    5 days 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?

    • NutWrench
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      115 days 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.

    • @fnrir
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      105 days ago

      TempleOS, obviously

      or maybe an Islam-specific fork?

    • @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.

  • @TheEighthDoctor
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    345 days ago

    Taliban are more afraid of women than /r/incel