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Taliban ban windows to stop women being seen inside homes (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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Summary

The Taliban have banned windows in homes that allow views of areas where Afghan women might be seen, citing concerns over "obscene acts."

This new decree mandates blocking or obstructing such windows in existing and new buildings, continuing the group's systemic repression of women since regaining control of Afghanistan in August 2021.

The Taliban's policies have included bans on women's education, public appearances, and voices.

Critics, including the U.N., warn these actions dangerously erode human rights, while activists call out global inaction over the ongoing oppression.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Seriously, what is the point of trying to control women this way? Or really in any matter? I've never understood it. Are people really that scared and threatened by women? What is the end game for people who do things like this?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Individually, they’re probably racing for social status by demonstrating more extreme versions of the existing set of rules.

It’s a common thing in human cultures to gain social status by exemplifying a more extreme version of whatever the social norm is.

In this case, the norm got established as “special niche for women” and now it’s a runaway process of status-seeking.

Kinda like peacocks and their feathers. Instead of sexual selection in the case of peacocks, this is social selection as men compete for higher and higher status by having more and more ridiculous displays of “look how well I embody this control women rule”.

So it’s not like they’re trying to engineer some specific social benefit. That is, ostensibly, the reasoning. But in actuality, each man who proposes or backs and further encroachment on the women is doing so for his own selfish gain: in the form of social status.

Kinda like there’s no utilitarian value to having ridiculously huge hats, but a person in a culture where big hats signal status can gain prestige by putting on a bigger hat.

This is social status seeking, in the form of purity demonstration.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yup. In any group you'll always have those who seek status by being more extreme than the rest. Others in the group feed this by giving them their applause and attention. You see this in even something as trivial as a shared interest groups like hiking or biking. Here the Taliban making this decision (and not all of them want this) are showing they are "more devout and better Muslims than the rest" and also trying to justify their positions.

It is also a good way to deflect attention from the fact that the economy is shit and the Taliban have been lousy rulers.

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