Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their education is over. Under Taliban rule, they are unlikely to ever step foot in a classroom again.
Well… The ones that aren’t brainwashed into thinking they should be enslaved. There’s a lot of internalized misogyny in Muslim countries because the women have been raised to believe they should be submissive to patriarchal forces.
That’s the issue with control over education, once you get your hooks in you can make the slave believe being a slave is honorable and noble. They’ll fight against their own interests. I’ve even see it on lemmy. Where they talk about the evil west and our damn equality for the sexes, how awful we are for letting women do what they want.
Well… The ones that aren’t brainwashed into thinking they should be enslaved. There’s a lot of internalized misogyny in Muslim countries because the women have been raised to believe they should be submissive to patriarchal forces.
That’s the issue with control over education, once you get your hooks in you can make the slave believe being a slave is honorable and noble. They’ll fight against their own interests. I’ve even see it on lemmy. Where they talk about the evil west and our damn equality for the sexes, how awful we are for letting women do what they want.