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Dave Spector

Speaks for itself…

@Dhmspector Ahhh yes, the iconic Pashtun tribal dress for women, not really seen outside Pashtun culture, which Westerners are told represents Islam, even though most Muslims consider that extreme.

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Note that this dress code is enforced on women in Afghanistan by the Taliban regime, who Trump cut a deal with in 2019. Trump weakened the US army presence there so much that keeping the Taliban out became impossible, setting up Biden to take the fall for the subsequent withdrawal.

Remember, this is what TRUMP wanted for Afghan women.

@Rastal @Dhmspector

Dunno why we have to go outside the US to come up with an appropriate example. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Dhmspector

It's the same as an entomologist protecting butterflies by pinning them in a board.

@jgg I get your point, but it’s a bit of a faulty analogy. Entomologists aren’t trying to control every insect; these men want to control and dominate all women.

Caring for women- Good.

@Dhmspector Seems like the American right wing not so different than the Taliban, for sure.

@ai6yr
It is definitely what Y'allqaeda and that Y'alliban want.

@Dhmspector

@Dhmspector "We need women to look like a sack of potatoes to protect them because even a hint of your sexuality is too much for us men to handle and we will lose control because that is your fault nothing to do with us having apparently no control over ourselves" with no hint of irony.

An entire room of women were allowed to burn to death which was preferable to them fleeing without their Burkas so yeah its all about control.

@MasterMischief semi agree — some are about control of everyone else, a few are about control of the self …

@Dhmspector You can say there is a difference, but I think you know there isn't.

@Dhmspector, my notion is that whenever someone gavages legislation affecting a group of people, the legislators and executive passing it are affected by equivalent difficulty immediately. Pass an abortion ban; you had better travel out of your area or get prosecuted. Pass stupid internet laws; I hope you can suffer like your constituents.

It probably would not slow down the sanctimonious super minority and the religious wrong.

@Dhmspector When tRump says he wants to protect women whether they want it or not, believe him

@Dhmspector

when people tell you to calm down because you are overreacting

and you do

@Dhmspector Given all the discomfort many girls go through because of gendered clothing in “free” “Western” society, this is stunningly simplistic, not to mention racist.

Remember the regulations on clothing in beach volleyball at the Olympics?
Remember the Islamic player forced to wear shorts for soccer in the UK?

Try opposing control of women within your *own* society first.

And, please, block me.

@Tattered you live in a fantasy world — the Islamist worldview and control of women is a perversion of Islam. Literally no real Islamic country ever forced women in these horrific states of living before so many regimes succumbed to violent insurgencies & colonization by Islamists starting in the 1970s.

@Dhmspector I have had a discussion on gendered school uniforms with a class of high school students in Japan. Every one of the girls had been molested on the trains. Would this have happened if their clothing and hair styles had matched that of the boys?

I’ve also worked with a broad mix of cultures in one of Britain’s most diverse schools. Perhaps my fantasy world is different from yours.

Furthermore, unless your profile pic isn’t inaccurate, we are two white men…

@Tattered so your take is women should be locked away and forced into lives of sexual, societal, social, and economic slavery and privation all because we haven’t gotten our acts together on better socialization of boys and men?

If your culture does the above to anyone it needs to fall. Your culture isn’t worth saving.

Fortunately cultures can evolve: theirs and ours — let’s fix our boys and men.

@Dhmspector even in India this happens. Women are just slaves of their families and religious dogma