New Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human rights groups.

The Taliban published a host of new “vice and virtue” laws last week, approved by their supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, which state that women must completely veil their bodies – including their faces – in thick clothing at all times in public to avoid leading men into temptation and vice.

Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses.

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  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    You would think since it’s the men that can’t control themselves (per these assanine laws anyway), that they would have to stayed locked away somewhere. The women seem to be able to function just fine.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Look at those sexy shoes! My gosh! Maybe all women should wear only worn out men’s shoes in color brown and wear brown or black socks all the way up the knees? Also the standard should be panties. Shorts, pants, an aluminum shield in the form of pants a beautiful skirt and then the burka and then a whole car cover.

    Heck, maybe just ship all women to Mexico? Why not do that? Then they could wear anything they want and the Taliban men can be at ease?

    No? Okay, better encase the women in concrete from the waist up and knees down. Those are the useless parts. The Taliban is only interested in the vagina required to make more Taliban.

    How about lab grown vaginas attached to Taliban males?

    • MerchantsOfMisery@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      Funny how Christian conservatives in the west still insist they share nothing in common with Muslim fundamentalists…

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I’ve got to say, I’m having a very hard life and can’t see a way forward to any sort of financial stability or security. But this would be a lot worse. Makes you think.

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    18 days ago

    Imagine being so insecure that you need someone to literally hide every aspect of their being so that you don’t get aroused and can’t control yourself. Fucking weak-willed cowards.

    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      16 days ago

      Nah, that’s all bullshit. It’s, as per usual about a small group of people at the top wanting to control everyone else. Those at the top won’t be limited by details like rules, they’ll rape and steal what they can. It’s the rest that’ll bmhave to suffer under them.

      I guess it’s just the result of undiagnosed and untreated psychopathy

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        If the sight or sound of a woman triggers their weak little boners, then yes.

        • Valmond@lemmy.world
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          18 days ago

          What about drones zooming around with sweet women sounds? Is there a gofundme for that somewhere?

          These countries must be stopped and everyone liberated. It’s worse than life imprisonment.

          • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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            18 days ago

            I like that. Drones that both play porn audio and drop nudes like propaganda pamphlets. It would shut the country down.

        • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online
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          18 days ago

          Not in any way shape or form defending the treatment of women over there. Heck, I’m gay. But boners are completely involuntary?

          Learn some anatomy, this is straight out of r/BadMensAnatomy

          • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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            18 days ago

            They are, but most people can survive when they get them. These weak shit stains can’t.

            I’m a guy I know how boners work. I’m specifically using verbiage that paints these losers poorly. People that are insecure enough that they need these policies, also probably aren’t band of being told they have weak little boners.

            Also get that reddit shit out of here. Fuck that place.

          • catloaf@lemm.ee
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            17 days ago

            Uh… Pretty much, yeah. I mean, you can touch yourself to stimulate an erection, or distract yourself to lose one, but you can’t voluntarily become soft or hard through conscious action like you can raise your arm.

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    18 days ago

    “This document not only violates Afghanistan’s domestic laws but also broadly contravenes all 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

    They didn’t think it could be done, but I knew I could do it. All 30 articles in one law!

    — A Taliban, probably

    • TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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      You know, when I read The Handmaid’s Tale back in high school, I didn’t think the ending made any sense. How do you have tourists just walking around taking pictures when there’s horrible human rights violations happening in plain sight?

      I think I get it now.

      Honestly the accounts of the woman who visited almost bother me more than the men. Even as a tourist she wasn’t allowed to do certain things, but she can just leave whenever she wants. Wonder how her friends among the locals feel about that.

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      That’s the thing, though, they don’t fight for it. They don’t really fight against it, either.

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      18 days ago

      When the US left it really didn’t take long, nor a lot of effort for the Taliban to take back control.

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        America trained their military for 20yrs and gave them billions in military equipment to be able to fight for themselves. They literally laid down and surrendered after a couple weeks.

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        I think it’s horrible to see what the Taliban government is doing to oppress the people of Afghanistan. I’m also surprised that so few people of Afghanistan showed any real will to prevent Taliban from taking power. They had 20 years to prepare, with ample support and loads of equipment from NATO and others, and when the foreign forces left they just … capitulated.

        It’s baffling to me that seemingly nobody was willing to fight to prevent this. Thousands of people were at the airport during the last evacuations, and I vividly remember videos of people holding on to cargo planes that were taking off in an effort to get out of the country. Lots of people clearly knew it was going to get bad, but seemingly nobody was willing to fight to prevent it. I honestly have a hard time understanding how that happened.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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          That’s because we knew the majority of them where just Taliban fighters that needed a job. So when we left, we basically left a bunch of gear to the Taliban fighters we just trained.

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    18 days ago

    Sooo I guess they can’t order anything from a counter, tell employees what size they need etc.

    So the men do all the shopping then, do they?