Women "lose their value"

According to the Taliban, "women lose their value if anyone sees their face in public" and this is why they demand that women wear the full on burqa or chaadar covering them from head to toe. According to the Taliban, "A women has her own value and that value decreases when men look at her". I spent several years in Afghanistan since 2001 and many of the women I met were intelligent, elegant and certainly a lot smarter than their male counterparts and their value as persons certainly wasn't diminished by being able to see their faces. I am gay so therefor have no sexual interest in women but I sure prefer to see someone's face when I'm talking to them rather than some cloth sack with a pair of eyes... So by how much is their "value diminished", 10 goats less if a man has seen their face?

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bijouxbroussard · F

The Taliban is of no value because they oppress 50% of their population due to religious bigotry. So their country loses out on important resources, minds, ideas that the other percentage could provide. I don’t understand why the people don’t band together and get rid of them.

helenS · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard For the same reason the German people didn't band together and got rid of Hitler in 1943.

bijouxbroussard · F

@helenS The Germans agreed with Hitler. The people of Afghanistan were actually rid of the Taliban briefly.

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard Interesting, I'm not questioning you. I didn't know this history. I remember watching a documentary about Afghanistan, where for a period of time in (I think) in the 70s where Afghanistan was relatively rich, but with years of endless proxy wars between the US and Russia led Afghanistan to 3rd world country status, poverty, endless war, violence and where the Taliban rose to power.

What you expressed doesn't contradict my learning, more that it offers a window before I didn't know. It's dangerous, sad, how our rich lives in our western countries (now) have come from the fruits of war from the loss to others..

spjennifer · 61-69, T

@bijouxbroussard Sadly, they don't band together to get rid of the Taliban because theirs is a culture of fear, fear of the druglords and the Taliban who have ruled through violence and subjugation. Before the Taliban came to exist in the mid 90's to oppose the druglords, the druglords ruled with their own private armies which the Soviet Union sought to eradicate before that, like others before them, they failed too.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard To put it simply, the Taliban are deeply embedded in the social fabric and are able to provide security and basic services that the previous government, imposed by the coalition and riddled with corruption, could not. They may be toxic to one half of the population, but I guess they are broadly appealing to the other half 😐