The continuing erasure of women - Afghanistan

[DomesticatedZombie]

'...the Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue announced that all women would have to cover their face in public, and laid out an escalating set of punishments for anyone refusing to comply.'

Solidarity with the women of Afghanistan.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61363969

I don't know if I am up to watching the programme right now, Plexie, but thanks for linking.

TeamSukhareva this all sounds worse for women than it was previously; something I hadn't really thought possible.

Bringing this thread up because I have received one recommendation about charities to donate to. This is from someone who is from Afghanistan and works for the women and girls there.

It is Afghan Women's Fund. I hope putting the link here is acceptable, but if not please let me know how to do this properly.

Things are not getting better there for girls and women. While their economy has collapsed and people are suffering the Taliban focuses on getting the female sex under control. This is a common pattern in misogynistic autocracies, of course.

Thanks, nepeta. Will check it out, hope the link stays.

An article on women who've escaped Afghanistan.

www.ekathimerini.com/society/1184366/influential-afghan-women-regrouping-in-greece/

They have power, but it's not their country -- it belongs to all the people including all the women. There's no way the majority would support their own oppression.

The women on television must now have their faces covered.
It really is erasure of women from everywhere so that they cannot be seen to exist. Once that is the case, human rights obviously will not be necessary, either.

Authoritarian countries don't share power democratically so the usual arguments about other cultures deciding things for themselves doesn't work. This is a small group of fundamentalists deciding things for everybody, and their views on women and girls are deeply misogynistic.

This makes me so angry, especially the whole "identify as women" thing. Does the imbecile who wrote that genuinely think that women in Afghanistan can just identify out of being women if they don't fancy being oppressed any more? That if a woman in Kabul takes off her burqa and puts on trousers, that the Taliban will just accept that and let her go to the bank on her own? Are they fucking stupid?

All the mealy-mouthed shit about gender being complicated....a bunch of backwards mediaeval fundies don't seem to find it too complicated, so god knows why we do. I am REALLY UPSET about this, and I'm not quite sure why its bothering me so much more than all the other heinous assaults on the rights of women and girls around the world.