#extreme misogyny taliban

[indizombie]

Honestly, I don't know whether the schools will reopen or not under this government which doesn't have a bit of thought or understanding for girls. They count the girls as nothing.

Tamana, who is among the 330,000 Afghan girls UNICEF estimates should have started secondary school this March

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

Heartbreaking to say the least. (Also some people are defending it by saying things like "public education is a western concept" 🤦‍♀️ smh.

It's just misogyny, and making life decisions for women without consulting them, stop pretending. Also if it's a western concept, why aren't the men banned too 💀? Like I have a lot of criticism of the "west" too but ppl need to stop gatekeeping Islam and acting like only ppl in the east know and follow Islam. Both the west and east have their own set of cultural problems that they need to resolve and keep away from Islam. In the east, misogyny is a huge one.)

[feministfang]

Three brave women beat up a shopkeeper in islamic republic of Pakistan for harassing them and all the Pakistani men are so pissed off that they’re sending death threats to those women for taking action in their own hands instead of tolerating and calling some male authority or police. That piece of shit also filed a case against those women for abusing him and as a citizen of this trash country, i can tell he will win the case.

A 20 years old girl, Sania Zehra, was brutally tortured, raped and murdered by her husband, syed ali raza bukhari, when she was pregnant with her third child. This also happened in Pakistan on 8th of July. Now the same men are silent over this or trying to shove the issue of Palestine on feminist pages posting about Sania’s case because "far worst things are happening in the world". Meanwhile, Pakistani women are busy dick worshipping the victim’s father because "he must be so traumatised after losing his daughter like this. oh poor man!" As if that bitch isn’t at fault for making her daughter marry that old beast when she was probably 16.

Celebrities here are more concerned about men’s deteriorating mental health in this country as these lunatics think catering to men’s feelings will somehow fix them. What else can you expect from them when the entire world outside has progressed, but these dumbfucks are still portraying the same old cringe fairytale stories where a simple beautiful, but unfortunate girl falls in love with some ugly psychotic man and tolerates his abuse because "that’s true love 😍" and in the end, she’s successful in fixing him.

But when we speak a word against the atrocities women face in this country, all these people lose their minds and try to silence us to ensure the image of their fuckin country is not at risk of defamation and the lovely Pakistan can become an example of how peaceful islam is. Pakistani men (and most women here as well) are intolerant when it comes to the vilification of the image of their country and religion. And their asses start burning when they see someone ruining it. They even stoop so low to the level of satanism that they would not hesitate to send death threats to anyone making them look bad globally. A girl i was friends with on FB wished Malala another gunshot on her face by Taliban because of her anti-marriage stance.

This is why i urge y’all to please don’t stay silent on the issues women are facing in Pakistan. I never see global feminist pages talking about female oppression in this garbage country. Some feminists living in west also act like brown men are somehow better than white men and they’re more oppressed than white women because of racism, or that muslim men are better than christian bigots. Stop victimising brown muslim men. Not only are they hideous but also the misogyny the south asian society has shoved in their assholes is extremely disgusting and they keep shitting it on women everywhere they go, including white women.

I wouldn’t expect support from brainless libby feminists as they’re probably busy pulling their pants down on their favourite OF platforms or fighting misandry online, but i would love to see all the radfems speaking up for south asian women. Please make it known globally how the Pakistani islamic community is constantly oppressing women day by day.

Use the examples i stated above. Speak up for Sania Zehra!! Demand justice for her globally, and keep bashing corrupt Pakistani law system. Also, don’t forget to defame their religion. These people are most protective of their culture and religion. I don’t see any hope in this country for women, but there’s a chance they will start taking action and give proper justice to the victims in order to protect their so called dignity.

[hussyknee]

Why is it that white liberals who claim to be on Palestine's side can't resist shitting a load of Islamophobia to make their point? Christ is "egalitarian and kind" but the entire system of Islamic commandments and ways of life (heavily open to various interpretations) is the great boogeyman incompatible with democracy. This coming from the white supremacist settler colonial state whose entire political establishment has for fucking decades used both religious Christian and secular grounds to destabilise, bomb, genocide and colonize Muslim countries, torture and persecute Muslims, and arm and empower fundamentalist Muslim states and groups. It's your secular democracy that delivered Afghanistan into the Taliban's hands twice! Daesh exists because of you! Saudi Arabia is your bestest buddy and you're helping it genocide Yemen and Sudan right the fuck now! Palestine is being genocided because Christian Zionism wants a vassal state of Zionist Jews! Not to mention how much of the Global South's misogyny and homophobia is the result of four hundred years of white Christian colonization, and the fact that USAmerican Christian fundamentalists are even now exporting and funding the Evangelical Christianity that's driving crackdowns on women and LGBT people in Africa. Project 2025 is a bare fraction of the misery and oppression the US government has inflicted and is still inflicting on the Global South.

All of your goddamn Western history and current rightwing extremism is about Christian fundamentalism fuelling white supremacy and brutal colonization, but when you need a boogeyman it's always some cartoon in your head about a bunch of Arab men in skull caps throwing rocks at women. Fascism is colonization turned inward bitch, but not even a quarter century of spewing its rhetoric that brought you to this inevitable endpoint is enough to make you look in the fucking mirror.

[afghanbarbie]

The sex-based apartheid against women in Afghanistan cannot be reduced to, "Afghan men saw Afghan women enjoying freedom and got mad, so they established extremist religious governments to stop it." I am really tired of seeing this misconception and oversimplification spread around by leftists, liberals and feminists – it's racist, and simply not fucking true.

The majority of Afghans want a secular government and for the oppression of women to end. The Taliban represent a minority of Afghanistan's people. The deterioration of Afghan society – in particular, women's rights and freedoms – directly results from decades of foreign intervention, imperialism and occupation. Afghans did not destroy Afghanistan, the United States did, and the USSR paved the way for them to do so.

Had Afghanistan never been treated like a pawn in the games played by imperialistic powers, had we not been reduced to resources, strategic importance and a tool for weakening the enemy, extremism would have never come to power.

An overview of Afghanistan's recent history:

The USSR wanted to incorporate Afghanistan into Soviet Central Asia and did so by sabotaging indigenous Afghan communist movements and replacing our leaders with those loyal to the USSR. The United States began funding and training Islamic extremists – the Mujahideen – to fight against the Soviet influence and subsequent invasion, and to help the CIA suppress any indigenous Afghan leftist movements. Those Mujahideen won the war, and then spent the next decade fighting for absolute control over Afghanistan.

During that time period, known as the Afghan Civil War, the Mujahideen became warlords, each enforcing their own laws on the regions they controlled. Kabul was nearly destroyed, and the chaos, destruction and death was largely ignored by the United States despite being the ones who caused and empowered it. This civil war era created the perfect, unstable environment needed to give a fringe but strong group like the Taliban a chance to rise to power. And after two decades of war, a singular entity taking control and bringing 'peace' was enticing to all Afghans, even if their views were objectively more extreme than what we had been enduring up to that point.

When the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they allied with the same warlords that had been destroying our country the decade prior and whom they had rallied against the Soviets – these are the people that made up the Northern Alliance. The 'good guys' that America gave us were rapists, pillagers, and violent extremists, no better than the Taliban. And that's not even mentioning the horrible atrocities and war crimes committed by American forces themselves.

So, no, Afghan men did not collectively wake up one day and decide that women had too much freedom and rush to establish an extremist government overnight. No, this is not to excuse the misogyny of men in our society – the extremists had to already exist for Americans to fund and arm them against the Soviets – but rather to redirect the bulk of this racist blame to the actual culprits. The religious extremism and sex-based apartheid would not be oppressing and murdering us today if they hadn't been funded and supported by the United States of America thirty years ago. And despite all the abuses and restrictions, many Afghan women prefer the Taliban's current government to another American occupation. I felt safer walking in Taliban-controlled Kabul than I did being 'randomly searched' (sexually assaulted) by American military police in my village as a child.

Imperialism is inextricably linked with patriarchal violence and women's oppression. You cannot talk about the deterioration of Afghanistan without talking about the true cause of said decline: The United States of America. Americans of all political views, including leftists and feminists, are guilty of reducing or outright ignoring Western responsibility for female oppression in the Global South, finding it much easier to place all blame on the foreign brown man or our supposedly backwards, savage cultures, when the most responsibility belongs with Western governments and their meddling games that forced the most violent misogynists among us into power.

(Most of this information comes from my own experience living as an Afghan Hazara woman in Afghanistan, but Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence covers this in much more detail. If you want more on the Soviet-Afghan war and Afghanistan's socialist history, Revolutionary Afghanistan is an English-language source from a more leftist perspective)

[menalez]

I was looking at your anons that you shared. But I feel you are missing the point though I maybe wrong. Thing is culture and environment does greatly affect the way men view and act on things. A man raised in a liberal, cosmopolitan environment is less likely to have violent misogynist tendencies and more likely to support women's rights (though liberal misogyny may still be present) than a man raised in a place where women are subject to chattel slavery and covered or locked up in houses. You can look up global opinion polls where there's a clear hostility towards women's equality and lgbt rights and more support for conservative religiousness in middle East, Africa and South Asia (obviously not all countries in those) compared to Europe or the Americas (including South America). Obviously a man who is from such an environment is more likely to be misogynistic (in terms of actions) than a man from a liberal environment on an average. This has nothing to do with race, because the same man had he been raised in a better environment would've likely been better (on an average). It is fair to blame the global geopolitical game and actions of the Western powers for the current situation in middle East or Afghanistan etc, but that doesn't change the fact that men from these places are more likely to be misogynist due to their environment and culture (not due to their race). What do you think?

i would like to preface this (for future anons) that im simply rbing and tagging that stuff for future reference, these aren’t all there is that ive said on the topic and it’ll take me time to go thru everything ive said on the topic so what ive reblogged is by no means the entirety of my perspective. additionally, ive talked so much about this that i actually have no desire to really have a discussion on it. maybe a civil private one in dms or something, but not a public one on my blog. it’s just bc i found talking about this topic and discussing it with very blatantly racist ppl last month was very emotionally draining for me. so i would appreciate if this discourse isnt reignited bc my intention isn’t to reignite it, but rather simply to find all thats been said on it so i can share it with another blogger on here.

OKAY so onto what u said. i agree that environment plays a massive role, in fact i think it’s predominantly what drives people’s behaviours in this context. however, i disagree with the argument that it’s about culture. i think it is about society and environment, but culture in itself isn’t the root of the issue a lot of the time. you brought up afghanistan, and i think that’s a good example of what i mean. culture is very deeply rooted and our cultures often have hundreds if not thousands of years of history behind them. what we’re seeing in afghanistan today isn’t the result of culture— it’s the result of an extreme societal change that happened several decades ago. not to say afghanistan didn’t have their own battles with misogyny before taliban got power, but taliban getting power and coming to exist isnt because of afghan culture (which ive seen many people argue and then use to point out that “well their culture led to this, and since they created their culture this goes to show these people are innately more misogynistic and violent”) but rather because of foreign powers. communism was on the rise in many nations in the middle east and in afghanistan as well. on another end, there were also islamists. they existed (afaik, we have saudi to thank for that) but they were weak and didn’t have influence. western powers, namely US, thought of communism as a threat to their power & to their livelihood, and thus supported and empowered the “lesser threat”, which are the Islamists. this helped the Islamists gain power and take over. this led to a major societal shift in afghanistan. what was once a country where women could walk around dressed however they liked, turned into a country where women were being forced to wear a burqa. what was once a country where women were getting educated, now became a country where women had to pretend to be boys if they wanted to learn. there’s some famous images showing this (ofc they don’t give us the full picture of life in afghanistan before taliban took over, but we get an idea), all of them being afaik from afghanistan in the 60s and 70s:

so i firmly am against the argument that the primary issues involve their culture. the islamists existence AND their power were both things that came from outside influence and outside powers. what i think is fairer to say, is that the difference in extremes of misogyny is to do with society and moreso social progress. we cannot argue that misogyny in Western Europe is less extreme because of Western European culture, especially when European society, around the same time as the images above, had a lot of undeniable misogyny. for example, at around the same time, italy had a law where women were forced to marry their rapists so that their rapist can basically get away with it, and in the 60s was the first time when a woman publicly refused to do so (her name is franca viola). women like the aforementioned one pushed for social progress which has made life better for women today, it wasn’t about the difference in culture.

with some practices, i would give culture more credit. for example, fgm is an ancient cultural practice in various countries. however, some practices aren’t cultural. taliban is far from a reflection of afghan culture. and of course men took advantage of the taliban and became more overtly misogynistic. the number of men that come from places where women’s rights have made massive progress, only to go to other countries and be incredibly misogynistic to the women in said countries, points to me that even with social progress, men will try to find a way to be misogynistic in a way thats acceptable enough (ex: sex tourism or mail order brides).

this is a long reply and by no means everything i think on this, but hopefully you understand now where im coming from. i don’t disagree culture can play a role, but a lot of the time what people blame on culture isn’t even about the country’s culture to begin with.

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Reviewing every episode of Love, Death, And Robots

Sonnie's Edge: Pretty good! Has some male gaze-y aspects to it but overall it's fun, stylish, and interesting. Sort of subverts the "rape revenge" story in a good way. Not quite as gay as I was expecting it to be, though. Content Warnings: Discussion of rape, on-screen violence cinematically paralleling rape, lots of blood and gore, female-presenting nipples, death

Three Robots: Probably the funniest and most charming that any of the more comedic episodes get. Has some stinkers of jokes but nothing offensive. Mostly just cute and entertaining.

The Witness: Extremely frustrating. Probably one of the most stylish episodes in terms of its animation, but god is the story weak and uninteresting, and it has by far the most gratuitous sexual aspects of any of the episodes. CW: blood and violence, lots of nudity, death

Suits: Very fun episode that looks and feels like a fun video game. Decent story, nice visuals, and charming characters. CW: Animal death, blood and gore

Sucker of Souls: Kinda fun horror-action pastiche, mostly hindered by its anticlimax ending and varyingly-enjoyable main cast. Nice art, the first 2D animation of the series. CW: Lots of blood, death, and gore, and some nudity

When The Yogurt Took Over: It's...fine. Another comedy episode that gets the occasional sensible chuckle out of me but has some big themes it doesn't have the ability to explore properly, and the art style doesn't do it for me. CW: very brief nudity

Beyond the Aquila Rift: Has some interesting ideas but spends a little too much time on straight sex scenes to explore them. Visuals are mostly pretty boring, except for the climactic appearance of a certain character at the end. CW: sex and nudity, spiders

Good Hunting: One of my absolute faves. Puts the "punk" in steampunk by telling a story about oppression, imperialism, xenophobia, misogyny, and slut-shaming. Sometimes the nudity is gratuitous but most of it at least serves the story in a way. Beautiful 2D animation, too! CW: attempted rape, nudity, sexualized violence/torture, body horror, blood and gore, some racial slurs against Chinese people

The Dump: uggghhhh just boring. Just boring and grimy and unfunny, with the exception of the end I guess. CW: brief nudity, body horror, use of misogynistic and ableist slurs

Shape-Shifters: deeply, INTENSELY boring, moreso than The Dump. I love werewolves but this is among the worst takes on werewolves I've seen. Wants to have some kind of message about racism but botches it completely by having the main characters be white soldiers and the main villains being Taliban terrorist werewolves devoid of any personality or motivation. Only thing that comes close to making it worthwhile is it's really the only instance of male nudity as fanservice and the werewolf fight at the end is decent. CW: blood and gore, depiction of war in Afghanistan, werewolf transformation (could be considered body horror by some)

Helping Hand: Legitimately tense survival story in the vein of 47 Hours or Saw. It wouldn't be wholly accurate to say I enjoyed it because it clearly doesn't want you to enjoy watching this, but it did exactly what it needed to and accomplished it well. CW: very visceral and realistic body horror, the bleak encompassing void of space

Fish Night: One of the most visually beautiful episodes, I would recommend this one purely for the visuals alone. Its story isn't bad, but isn't particularly interesting. It serves the visuals more than anything. CW: deep sea creatures, blood and death

Lucky 13: Fairly run of the mill military sci-fi story, accomplished rather well. I enjoyed it but I could easily see it boring a lot of folks. CW: blood and death, lots of gun stuff

Zima Blue: Probably my absolute favorite episode of the bunch. Zima Blue has gorgeous visuals and by far the most well-told and interesting story of any of these episodes. It's extremely ambitious and lives up to it so well. CW: I honestly can't think of any

Blindspot: This would be a fun little cyberpunk heist story if the characters weren't all completely and utterly devoid of charm. CW: gun stuff, cyborg body horror

Ice Age: The only episode that is mostly not animated but rather live action. A fun and intriguing little magic realism story. CW: animal death

Alternate Histories: ohhhh my godddd boringggggggg its not funnnnnyyyyyy but i mean if you just wanna see cartoon Hitler die a bunch, and I get if you do, I...guess you can check this one out. But. God it's just nothing. Art style's kinda ugly too. CW: death, blood and gore, Hitler and Nazi imagery, nudity and sex

The Secret War: this is just a long cutscene from a video game I would hate if it existed. Real boring. CW: lots of gun stuff, blood and gore, nudity+body horror

[viralafeed]

Women Make Movies Virtually Screening “Voices of Afghan Women” Collection for Free Through End of August

Women Make Movies Virtually Screening “Voices of Afghan Women” Collection for Free Through End of August

As the U.S. pulls out of Afghanistan and the Taliban continues to seize power, one of the many looming humanitarian crises involves what the future will hold for Afghan women. The Taliban has promised to protect women’s rights within the strictures of Islamic law, but that doesn’t mean a whole lot considering the group’s history of extreme misogyny and oppression — which included confining women…

[taylorinthe20s]

I Am Malala Book Review

1. If you could describe this book in one word what would that be?

To describe this book within one word is extremely difficult, because Malala as a person, a woman, a leader, and from her book - is profound and powerful - to reduce this to one word is seemingly impossible. Two words that come to mind are purpose, and resilience. As I am personally a huge fan of Malala (how could one not be?), I watched David Letterman’s Netflix special in which he speaks with her on her journey, as was detailed in the novel, and she spoke about surviving such an incident of being shot, and recognizing her purpose. Throughout the book, she displays what she amplifies through this quote, “For the love of all that is good in this world, please never give up. If you care about something, or someone, no matter what happens, refuse to quit! Never give up, and seek motivation to fuel your drive.” Throughout the huge planted seed of evil that grew in her life, she refused to let it bring her down - she continued to serve her purpose by fighting to stay alive, and continuously advocating for her passion - so that young women all around the world will be able to have the education that they deserve. 

Her journey is greatly detailed within the course of the novel, and I appreciate the attention to detail - even the detail that makes my skin crawl. She was very open and honest about her journey, especially when talking about the gruesome details of the horrific incident in which she was shot in the head, and the aftermath. Her resilience is a force to be reckoned with. She is proof that one person CAN make a difference, and proof that even your most traumatic life experiences cannot define you. When reading her book, and watching her speak, you can see and feel the immense passion and positive she emulates. Her book displays such integrity, strength, and inspiration. 

2. What does this book reveal about Islam, women, girls and education?

There was so much I was unaware of. After reading the book, and listening to Malala speak more on the matter, it was revealed that Taliban extremists took over and banned women from education, even from going to the market, owning a television, playing music, or dancing. They had destroyed over 400 schools by the end of 2008. They used the teachings of Islam in the name of God as somewhat of a misinterpretation - They knew that if a woman were to be educated, she would be independent, making her own decisions, and have her own personal identity. Overall, they did not want, nor could they accept or tolerate, women as their equal. So much of it was misogyny, the want of men to be superior, an older kind of superiority complex as they took excuses from culture and literature. What Malala stood for to them was ‘inherently wrong’ and yet she still, even beginning at the age of eleven years old, stood up to them.

3. What elements of chance are crucial to her story?

The big element of chance that became crucial to her story, is in 2012, when she was fifteen years old coming home from school with her friends, when she was shot in the head. After ten days in a medically induced coma, she woke up in a different country with no major brain damage but the left side of her face was paralyzed - she had survived. To me, that is a miracle - a huge element of chance crucial to her story, because if she were to have not survived, we would be unable to hear her story, and her continuous fight for women’s justice and education. Another element of chance is her fathers path of which she was greatly inspired by. She has noted that without her father, her role model since she was born, she would not have the same fearlessness or inspiration to speak up.

4. Unesco estimates over 160 million girls worldwide are not educated due to refugee status, war relocation, poverty and gender preference. What would the world look like if all girls were educated? What do you think would change?

As I spoke about within my answer for the second question, when women are given education, they are given the freedom to have their own personal identity and the opportunities are endless to what they can give the world. Access to education for women can improve health, greater earning potential, help break the cycle of poverty, and create more wealth for the country, among many others. There would be more opportunity to ‘dismantle the patriarchy,’ challenge misogyny more, and be treated as equals - women could rule the world (as I feel they do every single day). It would allow for a healthier, safer, and more prosperous world. 

5. What is your favorite quote from the book? Please explain why.

As there are many quotes within the book that would be deemed a ‘favorite,’ mine would have to be “I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education.” This is one of her more popular quotes, but it truly exemplifies her as a person. It’s not about her horrific experience as a child, but rather a larger part of her story - one that has a huge meaning; the importance of education for women. She survived, and continued working tirelessly for the thing that put her life in danger. Malala was near death, but her purpose was not fulfilled yet. Another quote that I loved was, “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” As a woman, this resonated with me. Although I have clearly not gone through the same trauma as Malala, this quote exemplifies how I am sure many women feel, especially ones that are not given access to their rightful education. It pains me that this is even in question, or that women are historically and systemically silenced because of their gender. 

6. What positive global messages does this book provide, and why does it continue to be relevant?

SO MANY. I Am Malala will forever be inspiring, fresh, and relevant because globally, women are still fighting the same battles as they were when Malala was 11, 15, or 17 - even now! The central message is that no matter the obstacles, every single person, including women, are entitled to a quality education as a human right - “Education is education and it’s the right of every human being.” She speaks on the importance of education, and equality of the sexes - things that should already be engrained in humanity, but lessons that are globally being taught. Malala continues to be an advocate for all women, and one that really has shown what a difference women can make in the world. 

[trmpt]

And that says it all

[trmpt]

They know how to kill