EU censors own film on Afghan women prisoners

[zedmeister]

The European Union has blocked the release of a documentary on Afghan women who are in jail for so-called "moral crimes".The EU says it decided to withdraw the film - which it commissioned and paid for - because of "very real concerns for the safety of the women portrayed

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[maenads_dance]

I think it's a "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of situation. I've been reading an interesting book from the 90s that's a compilation of interviews by a Western journalist with women from different majority-Muslim nations, and in a lot of cases she had to change not only names, but also locations, ages, details of their stories in order to provide those women with a little bit of safety, a little bit of anonymity. Film, being a visual medium, makes obscuring women's identities that much more difficult. And after all, how could the filmmakers sleep at night if a woman interviewed for the film were killed as a result?

On the subject matter: stories like this just make me wonder why men hate women so much that they oppress us all the world around. Afghanistan is more severe, but it's all the same damn thing after all - women speak out against men, men punish them as best they can.

[carmy_w]

This, and how to fix it.

Unfortunately, how to fix it generally involves rather violent daydreams of smacking the men in several tender spots, and teaching women how to do the same. If only it were that easy....

And spiriting all the women and children away, and getting them out of that influence would be nearly as difficult (where to put them??).

[maenads_dance]

Look, the men can have the poles and the equator, and we can have the temperate zones, right? right?