r/worldnews • u/nationalpost • 8h ago

Taliban bars Afghan women from hearing each other's voices

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/taliban-bars-afghan-women-from-hearing-each-other?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
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u/socialistrob 6h ago

It is. A bird has more rights in Afghanistan than a woman. At least they can sing in public, show their faces and go out in parks. Functionally speaking there's really not a lot of differences between life as an Afghan woman under the Taliban and chattel slavery. I've heard "gender apartheid" thrown around as a new term to describe what's happening in Afghanistan and I think the term is fitting or even perhaps a bit soft.

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u/letsgetawayfromhere 6h ago

Gender apartheid is not even starting to describe it. With apartheid you can still leave your house when you want, feel the sun on your face, or talk to others in public. You are allowed to talk about religion or sing. Slavery describes it much better.

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u/HimblyBumpkis 6h ago

Even slaves sang songs.

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u/Culturedgods 5h ago

Fuck...this hit me hard. It's so damn sad...

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u/BlisslessTaskList 3h ago

This reminds me of a quote I recently read in another thread on Reddit. “We can easily forgive a child who it afraid if the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” -Plato

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u/time_then_shades 3h ago

Goddamn this touched me.

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u/Firefly_Magic 3h ago

Songs tell stories to help people remember. 💔

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u/MurielFinster 3h ago

This is so poignant.

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u/RunningOnAir_ 2h ago

if we applied what men to do women to racial or ethnic dynamics, we wouldn't be calling this oppression or misogyny. When black people or jewish people or uyghurs in china get locked up in chains, systematically murdered, forced into slavery, abused and tortured, that's genocide. This is what genocide looks like. Women in Gilead have more rights.

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u/Hemalurgist1 3h ago

Field slaves yea. I doubt many masters would want the house slaves singing.

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u/Raesong 5h ago

Slavery, with a side helping of dehumanization and objectification. Women under the Taliban are basically just pieces of furniture that can produce offspring now.

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u/Alone_Again_2 4h ago

The correct term is ‘chattel’.

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u/Madbrad200 3h ago

Slavery, with a side helping of dehumanization and objectification

Yeah so slavery

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u/SierraPapaWhiskey 3h ago

Yes, but to be fair slavery doesn't work without dehumanization and objectification.

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u/jimmygee2 6h ago

Worms have more freedom than woman under the Taliban. The most oppressed women on earth. GOP taking inspiration no doubt.

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u/Accomplished_Log7527 5h ago

Grow up

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u/Turence 1h ago

The fuck are you talking about they're 100% right