I continued the tradition of arguing about this on an online group around Thanksgiving where the men didn’t want to hear of the murder other than as a glamorous fact of his life and no concern for the victim.
They were crybabies.
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His violence is as much a part of his work as being a junky was.
Pretty much. Okay, you can enjoy his work, and understand he was a dick who murdered his wife… Of course, it seems like understanding what he did would change one’s understanding of his work. The whole idea that people who make art must never be criticized is just kind of weird… they were/are people, and they’re gonna do the shit people do, which is sometimes being cruel and awful.
Strikes me that the whole narrative of the 20th century counterculture is like this, unwilling to see any faults in the men who are celebrated as outsider cultural rebels speaking truth to power, but often their own privileged positions goes unexamined.
Exactly right. The article digs into that, too.
That artist needs to look even more like a dick.
Having denied Afghan women jobs, education and free movement, ordered them to be totally covered, banned them from parks, removed their critical healthcare and silenced them with a ban on audible speech, the Taliban have plainly reached the point where the joy of torturing half the population has to be balanced, like any sensible exercise in mass persecution, with the needs and enjoyment of the male and free.
What, for example, to do about windows? Doubly enraging to the ruling obsessives, in that they offer female slaves the pleasure of daylight as well as allowing non-residents occasional evidence of their existence, these openings do, on the other hand, benefit the women’s male owners and their sons.
To immure or not to immure? Solomon-like, the Taliban’s supreme leader has now banned windows only on walls that overlook areas where women are still, by domestic necessity, allowed outside. Until such time as Afghan women can be kept – for sex, breeding and housework – perpetually underground, the latest edict stipulates that new buildings should not have windows from which “the courtyard, kitchen, neighbour’s well and other places usually used by women” are visible. …
Holiday in Afghanistan!?
Where are the Dead Kennedys when you need them?
This is soul crushing…
For those of us tracking the stories coming out of Afghanistan even before the U.S. withdrawal of troops, we saw that Things Were Going To Get Worse.
TW: extreme violence
Malala Yousafzai’s story:
Ms. Yousafzai’s answer to that violence:
Against incredible odds, Afghan women continue to work to better their lives and rights:
I lost touch with a friend who was working with an NGO supporting women-run small businesses in Afghanistan in the 2010s. These days, I am no longer up to speed on which orgs work to truly effectively support for Afghan women.
Any country that continues to undermine the health and welfare of its women the way the Taliban apparently has chosen to do is a country courting total breakdown from the inside out. Afghanis already face famine, massive droughts, drug-addiction, wartorn families, child marriage, insufficient housing, shortages on trained medical professionals and healthcare workers, and depleted uranium (a fabulously toxic metal) (the U.S. is also supplying plenty of it in munitions to Ukraine) left over from the wars–that the U.S. was involved in–on their soil. This list barely covers the scope of their problems. It’s winter in Afghanistan now, and I can’t begin to imagine the depths of the many widows suffering, along with their children. Because all women, including widows, have been forbidden to work.
Hopefully the U.N. can talk some sense into the Taliban, and get food and medicine to the neediest. I have no idea how that can happen.
ETA: typos
BBC just did a terrifying story about what is happening in S Korea
Wanna bet there are folks here taking notes?
Well yeah, but it wasn’t so quiet. Zuck himself announced that they’re ending moderation. So you can also now call trans people mentally defective groomers, and probably call anybody anything you want, with the possible exception of using the N-word.
tee hee
I really hope there’s a community note on that.
“It was not complications of syphilis. It was complications of gonorrhea”
Interesting. Here’s another related question: Is this actually a problem? Men dominated higher education for hundreds of years, really. Now, in the last few years, women have become the majority of students. Why should we consider that a problem? I mentioned this in another comment about women outnumbering men in law schools for 9 straight years now, but I am reminded of the time when someone asked Ruth Bader Ginsburg when there would be enough women on the Supreme Court, and she replied “when there are nine.”
I read that as, “Won’t somebody think of the men?” 
I’m still wondering about where they were getting the numbers in a few fields they said were male-dominated until the early/mid 20th century (or if they were looking at all communities vs. just the majority). 
The men of the US being under-educated sure seems like a problem to me. There’s a rather infamous Drumph sound bite which backs me up on this.
For you and me and all the other decent grown-ups: probably not.
But my adolescent boy, who is a good kid, is finding his way in a world where there are too many men who think this is a big problem for men, as opposed to made by men. I believe it’s easier for him to keep reading his moral compass correctly when he’s forewarned about some of the views out there.
We’ve had some excellent conversations along the way. The kind that include words like “you’re not crazy, you understand it right, that’s really what they’re saying.”
edit: grammer
Point taken, but I remember her saying, “How about 9?”, and she chuckled along with the audience’s laughter. That is, I don’t think she was advocating for 9, but instead pointing out that we went for an awfully long time with 9 men and virtually no one seeing that as a problem.
