In 1453, the crown jewel city of Christendom, Constantinople, fell to the Sunni Ottoman Turks; because no Christian, outside of the Byzantine Empire, thought it worthwhile to risk their lives to save Constantinople. Modern America knows that phenomenon, during the insurrection of January 6, 2021, no civilian American risked their lives by rushing to the Capitol to defend democracy against the rampaging horde. To the people of Washington D.C., home to vast numbers of Federal employees, defending the election of Joe Biden was not worth dying for. Vladimir Putin took note.
In 1683, the rampaging Sunni Ottoman Turks besieged Vienna, the Imperial hub of the Hapsburg Empire. Vienna was about to fall, opening Germany to Sunni Muslim domination, when Polish troops arrived. The Poles launched a massive cavalry attack, by their winged hussars, which shattered the Ottomans; leaving Germany free of Sunni dominance; until Angela Merkel opened her nation’s borders to Sunni migrants in 2015.
In 2021, the Sunni Taliban, after a twenty year war, seized the capital of modern Afghanistan, Kabul. The fall of Kabul, in 2021, is perhaps equal to the Fall of Constantinople, in 1453, a death knell. In one case, for a two thousand year old empire, in the other case, the death knell for Women Rights, in a modern world.
Since its inception, the Taliban has been noted for its anti-modernity and its ferocious and savage treatment of women.
The Sunnis of the Taliban hate women so much that they have banned female prostitutes on the streets in Afghanistan; all the street hookers in Afghanistan are now young boys or male teenagers.
The Taliban is replacing women with young boys in the world's oldest profession; that Taliban mindset, to replace women, has fueled the rise of transgenderism, all across the world. Since the Fall of Kabul, men, as self declared women, have replaced women in every aspect of life.
Since the Fall of Kabul, modern society lives in a society in which transgender women have more protections than biological women. The new Scottish law against hate speech protects transgender women but not biological women. The Fall of Kabul.
"Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the human rights situation in the country is abysmal, with women and girls experiencing the worst of the regime’s policies. There is growing evidence that the Taliban are committing the crime against humanity of gender persecution of women and girls, an assertion Human Rights Watch made in a new report. This summer, the World Economic Forum slated Afghanistan last of the 146 countries it ranked in a study on gender gaps…. the Taliban’s “large-scale systematic violations of women’s and girls’ fundamental rights in Afghanistan … [constitute] gender persecution and an institutionalized framework of gender apartheid.” The scope of the Taliban’s women’s rights restrictions is truly unprecedented.
Advocates often apply the term “gender apartheid” to describe two-tiered systems of men making all the decisions about political and social affairs and assigning themselves agency in all public spaces while women are relegated to work that can be done from home or traditional gender roles of child-raising and homemaking. This is the situation Afghan women and girls find themselves in today. …. immediately after seizing power the Taliban prohibited girls from attending secondary schools and transformed the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, tasked with safeguarding women’s rights in all 34 provinces, into the ironically titled Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue.
This marked the beginning of a string of more than 140 orders and decrees that have thoroughly dismantled all existing mechanisms, laws and institutions that were put in place to protect against human rights violations and promote women’s rights.
The regime has renamed and repurposed the Attorney General’s Office, which is now called the General Directorate for Monitoring and Follow up of Decrees and Directives. The Taliban also eliminated institutions like the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, the Commission to Eliminate Violence Against Women, shelter and safe houses for battered women, civil society-led protection and empowerment programs and women-led organizations. They also rescinded laws and policies geared toward eliminating violence and harassment against women.
….Taliban decrees and edicts restricted women from working or teaching at public universities, from working for the government, or traveling beyond 45 miles away from the home without a mahram (or male guardian). The Taliban decreed that women must be accompanied by a mahram — even during surgery — while visiting male health providers
….. The Taliban decreed that the best form of hijab — which they use as a synonym for women’s covering or clothing — is for Afghan women to wear a burqa (i.e., to be fully covered from head to toe) or to simply stay home. The Taliban also banned women from working for the U.N. and NGOs and restricted women from entering public parks and participating in sports. The regime also invalidated thousands of divorce cases decided under the previous government.
Their most recent decree called for the closure of beauty salons, leaving some 60,000 women without an income to support their families. ….. Whereas two years ago, women could travel a short distance without a mahram, today women must have a male guardian to even leave the home…. Until December 2022, universities were open for women, but now female students and instructors are not allowed to enter public or private university campuses.A longer-term threat that has also emerged over the last two years, which would perpetuate the Taliban’s misogyny over future generations, is the “madrassafication” of the education system in Afghanistan. This has three forms: the curriculum of the regular public schools is being revised to accord with the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam; girls and boys are being encouraged to attend madrassas rather than public schools; and new “jihadi madrassas” are being created in every province that provide boys with military and Islamic education. The Taliban are also putting more investment into madrassas for both boys and girls. (the Taliban) are expelling girls under the age to 12 who are taller or physically bigger for their age. the Taliban have increased enforcement — establishing the Female Moral Police Department in August 2022, who are deployed to public and private educational institutions and women-only markets to inspect women’s hijab….U.S. Institute of Peace.”
The Fall of Kabul had seminal, cosmic and long range effects on women rights all across the world. The Fall of Kabul was a tragedy for Afghan women; but it also debilitated women rights everywhere.
Why?
Because it showed men, primordial, antediluvian, atavistic males, that women would march and yell and vote for equality, but would not fight, or risk their lives to save the rights of Afghan women.
Nancy Pelosi and her stilettos did not fly to Kabul to stand with her Afghan sisters; neither did Lady Gaga, or Gloria Steinem, or the ladies of THE VIEW, of Ellen DeGeneres, or AOC, or Oprah. The advocates for women rights were all talk; men took notice.
Since the Fall of Kabul, men all across the world have treated women with a barbarity which was unthinkable before the Fall of Kabul.
Surveys across the world have shown that men think women have become too “uppity; in modern Germany, one third of men think it is acceptable to use violence against women.
"….. Millennial men, eager to shed the mantle of traditional masculinity, embraced the push for gender equality, at least in principle. Most millennial men identify as feminist—in fact, they claim the label in roughly equal numbers as millennial women.
The rising rejection of feminism among young men is almost certainly linked to growing feelings that American society has become more hostile to men. In 2019, less than one-third of young men reported that men experienced some or a lot of discrimination in American society. Only four years later, close to half (45 percent) of young men now believe men are facing gender-based discrimination. For some young men, feminism has morphed from a commitment to gender equality to an ideology aimed at punishing men. That leads to predictable results, like half of men agreeing with the statement, “These days society seems to punish men just for acting like men.”
Increasingly, men are reporting mistreatment in their daily lives. Nearly one in four Gen Z men say they have experienced discrimination or were subject to mistreatment simply because they were men, a rate far greater than older men. In the era of microaggressions, it is possible there is greater awareness of, or sensitivity to, gender-based mistreatment and misconduct, but clearly this represents a profound break from the past.
If men believe that the playing field is tilting against them, women hardly agree they are better off. Gallup surveys show that women have become much more pessimistic about the state of gender equality and the treatment of women in society. In 2016, 61 percent of women reported being satisfied with the way women were treated in the US, but sentiment deteriorated rapidly over the next couple of years. Today, only 44 percent of women feel satisfied with the way women are treated in American society.
That’s the crux of the problem. Too many men believe that the #MeToo movement is not about them. (One young man we interviewed earlier this year said he thought the entire thing was about celebrities.) And not enough women believe the problems that young men face are relevant to their own lives.
…..For young men in particular, social isolation and feelings of alienation are increasingly common experiences that rarely receive constructive discussion. But there are some corners of the Internet where these issues receive attention. Researchers Eva Bujalka and Ben Rich argue that the “manosphere,” the loose collection of websites, podcasts, and online forums promoting anti-feminist views, attracts young men because these spaces take their concerns seriously. They write, “The manosphere appeals to its audience because it speaks to the very real lives of young men . . . romantic rejection, alienation, economic failure, loneliness, and a dim vision of the future.” If misogynists like Andrew Tate are offering the wrong kind of advice to young men, liberals and feminists do not appear to be offering anything.
More young men have gotten the message. Beginning in about 2015, surveys began showing a growing political divide between young women and men. The divide is particularly pronounced among white Americans. Nearly half (46 percent) of white Gen Z women identify as liberal compared to 28 percent of white Gen Z men. Initially, it looked like most of the movement was among young women who veered sharply left in the wake of the #MeToo movement, the election of Donald Trump, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But now it’s becoming clear that Gen Z men—a group that includes young adults ages 18 to 26—are charting their own distinctive course on gender, sexual orientation, and identity issues.
It’s not clear where this ends,….. Will they see women as the source of their problems or as potential allies in addressing the unique challenges that men face? If it’s the latter, the effect it will have on dating, marriage, and family life is hard to overstate. …SURVEY CENTER ON AMERICAN LIFE.”
Why should American men feel alienated from American society and resentful of American women?
Pop culture, the media.
If one watches the VIEW or MSNBC, there is a total lack of appreciation of the pressures on males, every male.
Modern women have forgotten that males have a great burden; they feel compelled to show physical courage in any crisis, in all crises. They feel compelled, by ancient, internal mores to go down with the TITANIC while women and children are saved.
Men feel they MUST measure up in courage.
Women, modern women, have dismissed that. Modern women degrade the pressures on men and cheapen the nomenclature surrounding those pressures.
On THE VIEW, the all female panel called a rich, short, frail female actress/activist, a “badass.” That is a degradation of male nomenclature; Audie Murphy, a short, frail, poor American male, was a badass; he killed 264 Nazis.
This Blogger is positive that the women of Afghanistan would have had Audie Murphy on their side than Kyra Sedgwick.
The modern women of THE VIEW glorified actress Elizabeth Hurley for appearing in a sex laden film, directed by her son. THE VIEW women thought it was so great; men understood, the son was pimping out his mother.
The NEW YORK TIMES reviewed the film, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS; a film about someone writing filthy letters to their neighbors in backwater England. The review deviated from commenting on the film that the heroine in 1920, small town England has a live in Black lover; and no one is upset, to trash men : “ a lavish consideration of how s annoying and stupid the men…are and by extension all men.”
"It’s not clear where this ends ….” It ends with the Taliban mentality sweeping the world; for in every nook and cranny of the world, men are watching and seeing how much Afghan men are ENJOYING putting women in permanent, uneducated positions in society.
And they know, from the Fall of Kabul, no woman will risk their lives to defend women rights.
On June 26, 2011, this Blogger published this: “.... in Afghanistan, America did not fail; the philosophy of modernity failed....The great cultural shock of this Afghan War is that the majority of Afghan fighting men, regardless of what VANITY FAIR, Hillary Clinton, Tina Fey, Oprah, Anderson Cooper, Samantha Power, Mrs. Jay Leno, Lady Gaga, Tina Brown proselytizes, do not want modernity. In fact, they so do not want modernity they will fight, kill and die to keep it out of their children's lives.
….This Blogger suggests.... the great surge of 21st century modernity has crested in Kabul…..there are discernible limits to the spiritual and emotional satisfaction that modernity brings. ...GERRY MAXEY”
The Afghan women knew what the Taliban was all about; the Taliban had ruled the country before, imposing medieval standards on Afghan women. The Afghan women had twenty years of American support, to figure out how to forestall a Taliban takeover.
One doesn’t forestall the Taliban by learning how to be a fashion designer, or television anchor, or musician, or writer. One forestalls the Taliban by killing, like the Kurdish women and the Sandinista women.
Afghan women should have learned how to manufacture and apply poison; how to slit the throat of a Talib, while he is snoozing after sex; Afghan women should have learned to caress an AK-47 by candlelight.
Does anyone remember any Afghan woman being a suicide bomber AGAINST the Taliban?
The Fall of Kabul taught everyone, or should have taught everyone, Modernity and the surge of women right do not spiritually satisfy Males, dangerously angry, stupid males. Since no one was willing to die for women rights in Kabul, the Fall of Kabul signals the beginning of the decline and eventual curtailment of women rights, all across the globe.
In cosmological terms, the Dobbs decision, over throwing abortion rights in America, in June, 2022, was a byproduct of the Fall of Kabul, another step on the path to downgrading the place of women in society. Judge Alito wrought a Taliban legal decision because he saw American women, as Afghan women, all talk show and no courage. The Fall of Kabul showed misogynists everywhere, that women rights could be taken down boldly, the Taliban example.
The lesson of the Fall of Kabul.
Afghan women, post fall of Kabul, 2024
Afghan female students, before they were barred from being educated
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