Girls banned from attending school

That age limit is probably picked because it is close to menarche, and at that point the kind of extremist Islam the Taliban preaches would regard the girls not as girls but as women.

Other explanations might exist. I read a lot about the tenets of the Islam the Taliban prefers during the previous round. At that time they allowed small girls to be educated (though sometimes only at home) so that they could learn to read the Quran. After that, no more education for vulva people!

We shall see if the new version is going to be any different from the earlier one. Perhaps not quite as extreme but also better prepared to disguise the moves it plans to make.

Beyond heartbreaking for those girls. Imagine having education, hopes for a future, and then it being taken away in such a finite way. What can they even dream of now?

Women's rights are granted and denied at the whim of men in every single country. The men denying western women some of their rights currently think they're so much better than men from places like Afghanistan. They can't see their actions are part of the same continuum, part of the same attitude which sees women as merely props in the lives of the actual humans - males.

I can’t find the link quickly but there’s a report showing only 40% of countries globally offer boys and girls the same opportunities in education.

everyone absorbs this information on some level and makes a judgement on the importance of girls.

Unsurprising, but so crushingly disappointing. These girls only get one chance at an education and it's already been disrupted, and will be now for who knows how long. These men are cowardly fuckers.

I saw this on the news. I am so pissed off.
The girls in the film speaking to the head also sounded outraged, I thought, which I was glad of.

It is galling but, sadly, not surprising.

In the meantime, some people on this side of the world think women have fat too many rights. You couldn't make it up.

Awful, unsurprising but still awful. Those poor girls.

They were always going to do this, the fact they left it to the last moment adds more cruelty. Men deciding what the uniform for girls should be is the excuse. Girls treated like rubbish and denied an education just because they were born female. Men deciding the boundaries women and girls have. Men telling women and girls what they must wear and where they can go. Misogyny drips through this world like acid.

Maybe they could identify out of it? Yeah right. The older I get, the more disappointed in men I become.

I saw the pictures of girls crying when they learned their school would not be reopening - heartbreaking.

This is how girls and women are seen in too many parts of the world. Expendable and unimportant .

The situation for girls and women continues to be shameful the world over.

Appalling.

www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/girls-in-afghanistan-school-taliban

what a surprise

the fuckers

Yes, it's grim, OP.