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Hodors Appletart wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:34 am If I'm understanding you correctly, you seem to be criticising those who look at the culture (as it is) of the Taliban and saying that the way they want to, say, treat women, is bad.

Am I reading that right?

Hodors Appletart wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:58 am ok thanks for the clarification

so my next question - where is the cultural relativism in the attached video of the lady commenting the friendly taliban are chanting "death to america"?

isha wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:27 am They are chanting "death to America".
They seem friendly at the same time.


The background thought to this is a kind of idiotic recounting is a skewed form of (p)maternalistic cultural indulgence. If that woman was not wearing hijab she would not have been able to muse publicly at all about their friendliness or indeed anything.

Edited to quote her correctly.

Life was returning to a new normal in Kabul as cautious residents ventured out of their homes to see what life would be like under the Taliban following their astonishing return to power at the weekend.

isha wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:52 am I am not a cultural relativist. I believe in objective standards of what is good and bad, culturally, and, as it happens, morally.
It is a "progressive" thing to speak about other harmful cultural practices as merely being diverse. I do not subscribe to such ideas.

CelticRambler wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:27 pm Ummm ... isn't this thread, in an of itself, a subscription to such an idea, based as it is on the premise a "cultural" or "moral" male will not necessarily see, or be able to adequately interpret the impact of, global issues in the same was as a female?

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused.

U.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the “wives” of much older men. While child marriage is not uncommon in Afghanistan, the U.S. has strict policies against human trafficking that include prosecutions for offenders and sanctions for countries that don't crack down on it.

One internal document seen by The Associated Press says the State Department has sought “urgent guidance” from other agencies after purported child brides were brought to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. Another document, described to the AP by officials familiar with it, says Afghan girls at a transit site in Abu Dhabi have alleged they have been raped by older men they were forced to marry in order to escape Afghanistan.

A man who strangled a vulnerable woman during sex after drinking 24 bottles of beer has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison.

Sam Pybus, 32, from Darlington, pleaded guilty to manslaughter after accepting he had killed Sophie Moss by applying pressure to her neck during consensual “rough” sex, but that he did not intend to hurt her.

Strangulation – fatal and non-fatal – “squeezing”, “neck compression” or, as some call, it “breath-play” – is highly gendered. On average, one woman in the UK is strangled to death by her partner every two weeks, according to Women’s Aid.

In 1996, two women per year were killed or injured during what the defendants referred to as “consensual rough sex” but this figure had soared to 20 women by 2016, which is a tenfold rise.

Researchers said strangulation is thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women who are younger than 40.

Very little pressure on both the carotid arteries and/or veins for ten seconds is necessary to cause
unconsciousness. However, if the pressure is immediately released, consciousness will be
regained within ten seconds. To completely close off the trachea (windpipe), three times as
much pressure (33 lbs.) is required. Brain death will occur in 4 to 5 minutes, if strangulation
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Be aware that strangulation may cause the following symptoms and/or consequences: difficulty
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or defecation, miscarriage, swollen tongue or lips. These symptoms may be an early indication of
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seizures, pulmonary edema (lungs filled with fluid) or death within 36 hours due to progressive
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refuse medical treatment, and then die later from undiagnosed or unsuspected fatal injury.

Uncle Frank wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 9:55 pm Combat sports like mma and boxing should have their categories classed by chromosones rather than male or female...

dawg wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:18 pm I'd just ban them all . Saves time, cuts out a lot of 'its not fair' and other such nonsense.

Once again Isha gets top marks for pulling the weirdest topics out of the international news media.

isha wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:48 am You can supply me with a list of approved topics when you get a chance, Herr Dawg.

dawg wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:23 pm I'm all in favour of you picking up lesser publicised matters, senorita Isha.

I'd ban the likes of MMA people knocking the bejesus out of each other.

If anyone fancies that carry on couldnt they take up a Houdini type activity over a pool of sharks ?

All the same excitement & danger with only themselves to blame if the end up missing body parts