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WhereIsMyName: Afghan women campaign for the right to reveal their names

By Mahjooba Nowrouzi
BBC Afghan Service
JULY 2020

A woman from western Afghanistan - we will call her Rabia - was suffering from severe fever, so she went to see a doctor. The doctor’s diagnosis was Covid-19.
Rabia returned home, suffering from pain and fever, and gave her prescription to her husband to buy the medicine for her. But when he saw her name on the prescription he beat her, for revealing it “to a strange man”.
Her story - which was relayed to the BBC through a friend - is not unique. In Afghanistan, family members often force women to keep their name a secret from people outside the family, even doctors.
Using a woman’s name in public is frowned upon and can be considered an insult. Many Afghan men are reluctant to say the names of their sisters, wives or mothers in public. Women are generally only referred to as the mother, daughter or sister of the eldest male in their family, and Afghan law dictates that only the father’s name should be recorded on a birth certificate.

MOAR...

Sure, and that is Afghanistan, where life and death are very close and one word away.

A decade ago on vacation I was privileged to have a walk alone in the outback with a nationally important liberal who said in a throw-away remark that 'There is nothing wrong with Islam; they're just 600 years behind us...'.

For me, to this day, that is a logical error and fallacy, and 'those people' must find their own path in history and first define what a 'master/slave' relationship means in every area of their own economy- while the free world continues to pass them by.

But what about here in the USA?

While there is exponentially more mysogony than misandry in the United States, both do exist. These tendancies here in the U.S. leak out in interesting ways, when people want to quickly blurt "the black and white of it", using quick 'humor' and 'sarcasm'- but often it reveals something deep inside the person, even beyond their familial and societal programming. The underlying causes are known.

For those of us who have 'done the work' and moved beyond these and other simply childish things... how sweet, new, and refreshing the world now seems.

The Red Pill is the real world of equalities and inequalities, and yes, it is diffcult to fathom. Many are not equipped to 'get there' or even contemplate them so for many reasons re-fill their blue pill prescriptions for their maladies. We anons and autists understand this as well as anyone, having travelled ourselves.

It's part of our jobs as autists and anons to gently move ourselves and others towards equality and truth, however imperfectly, because it is no further realized for all free individuals [you] than here in the United States of America.

Fig. 1 Two Proud Women of America

WRWY