Frida Speak

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, females aren’t allowed to be educated past age 12. They can’t be seen in public without full body coverage. They can’t travel more than 45 miles from home without a male chaperone. They can’t work in sectors outside health or education. After age 8, they can’t be in direct contact with a male who’s not a blood relative. They can’t speak loudly in public since no one should be forced to hear a woman’s voice. They can’t wear heels, lest the sound of a woman’s footsteps inadvertently entice a man. All establishments with any reference to the word “woman” have been renamed. Street level windows must be painted over so that women in the home are not visible to men on the street. There’s a ban on women's presence on radio, television or at public gatherings of any kind. So when I see self-indulgent men in womanface wailing on TikTok about how oppressed they are by women who refuse to wax their balls or forfeit their athletic opportunities or honor their narcissistic pronoun demands, all I can figure is that these egomaniacal idiots are the unwitting brand ambassadors for the epitome of American male privilege. And maybe they would benefit from a little vacation to the streets of the Middle East where they could take up their demands with the Taliban and haggle over the definition of the “human rights” they seem to believe they lack.