Afghan Girls And The Completely Demonstrable Absurdity Of Anti-Woman Societies

After the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, following 20 years of U.S. occupation, it was easy to have mixed feelings. On the one hand, the U.S. spent two decades, billions of dollars, and lost thousands of lives to prop up the previous government while failing to provide for millions of our own citizens, with troops who were eventually younger than the war itself; on the other, well, it’s the Taliban. The Taliban. Notoriously repressive even by the standards of religious fundamentalism, the previous era of Taliban rule severely curtailed women’s rights, barring outside employment and education and requiring women to wear full burqas in public.