"A Woman Is a Helpless and Powerless Creature"

[MsAmerica]

A year since the Taliban seized power, two decades of U.S.-financed reforms have been reversed by mounting restrictions on daily life.
Schools and jobs are again restricted for women.
Music has been banned, and beards are mandatory for men — an echo of the Taliban’s first rule in the 1990s.

Taliban Rewind the Clock: ‘A Woman Is a Helpless and Powerless Creature’

By Christina Goldbaum and David Zucchino

“My house has become my world,” Ms. Alyar. said. “I used to go out, I had freedom, but not anymore.”...

“All these decrees are for the protection of women, not the oppression of women,” Mohammad Sadiq Akif, the spokesman for the ministry, said in an interview. Asked about the women’s travel decree, Mr. Akif, 33, responded: “A woman is a helpless and powerless creature. If a woman goes on a journey alone, during the journey she could face a problem that she cannot solve by herself.” He said long-haul buses and taxis had been instructed not to transport women traveling alone.

Music had been banned, Mr. Akif said, “because our Prophet says listening to music develops hypocrisy in the human heart.” Foreign news reports and entertainment programs “turned people against Afghan culture,” Mr. Akif said.

Men may only visit parks on days reserved for men, he said, because “a man who goes to a park with his family may look at other women in the park, which is not a good thing.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban.html

Bastards.

what this says to the rest of the world is

"We are very inadequate men. We are scared of women. Women are stronger than us, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, so we do everything we can to control them physically"

"If a woman goes on a journey alone, during the journey she could face a problem that she cannot solve by herself."

How patronising.

I suppose they don't think much of men either: "Men may only visit parks on days reserved for men, he said, because “a man who goes to a park with his family may look at other women in the park, which is not a good thing.”"

But, preventing women from earning a living? Horrendous. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9xxklr0070o What is wrong with them? Are they inhuman? It's heartbreaking.

But doesn't it seem bizarre, if you think about it, how pervasive the fear/hatred of women is throughout so much of the world? This is a extreme example, but it's certainly not unique in the underlying sentiment.

it is only inadequate men who are so afraid of women

Yes, men are the problem.

Does that include the 450 British service men killed and 7000 wounded trying to secure basic freedom and reform ?.

Good lord. What a hot take.

Surely it just indicates that either women should be out and about freely so that these inadequate men don't get overexcited by rare glimpses of women or that these men are the ones who should have their lives curtailed?

It's all BS, they don't want women to be educated because what educated woman would have loads of children to grow up to be taliban fighters?

Well yes, the men who can't control themselves are obviously the ones who should be kept at home. It's obvious to women, at any rate.

I think it might be more accurate to say that in much of the world men are taught to think that way.

Men MEET women! Men KNOW women! whatever they are taught, they only FEAR women if they are inadequate themselves.

Much of the suppression of women is from men who are afraid that they themselves are so weak emotionally, mentally, spiritually, intellectually, (and sometimes physically) that if they didn't collude in firmly pushing women down the pecking order, they would be right at the bottom themselves.

I'm not sure that your premise is correct.

It seems to me, from what I've read, that men in some misogynist countries have few opportunities to meet women, and even fewer to get to interact with women as people.