Taliban bans the sound of women’s voices singing or reading in public

“Wait… you just pass a law and women can’t talk? Call the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. We have the final solution.”

Pfft, they stole that from Project 2025, Appendix F

For the Taliban, women are sexual slaves whose sole purpose is to be baby making machines

What a backward society. Under that thinking, a post menopausal woman would be useless.

Don't forget that they have to cook and clean as well.

So exactly JD Vance's stand

No they are extremely human. Human beings are completely capable of this complete dominance of each other. Dont ever dehumanize these atrocities. It paints a picture that we didn't do it. We did.

TIL

And I wish I hadn't.

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

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.

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.

Power.

Isn't beards required because a smooth faced man might cause impure thoughts?

They banned CLOTHES? >.>

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?

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

/S in case anyone gets confused...

"We protect them like diamonds!"

"So you protect them like objects?"

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.