Posted on 09/04/2021 1:14:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Bacha posh," which in Dari means girl "dressed up as a boy," is an ancient tradition that pre-dates the Taliban in which a family designates a girl to live as a boy. That could either allow her a boy's freedoms — like education, athletics and the right to be outside alone — or impose a boy's duties on her, like working.
Some parents designate a bacha posh if the family has no sons, to alleviate what a family might consider its shame and vulnerability — not having a male child to protect the family or make money for it — with the hope that the shift will cause the next baby born to be a boy. The girls are expected to return at puberty, to become wives and mothers, whether they want to or not -- and many don't, according to Jenny Nordberg, author of a book about the bacha posh, "The Underground Girls of Kabul."
CNN: The Taliban have said that they will protect women's rights "within the limits of Islam." Does that give you hope?
Nordberg: That statement means nothing because that will be subject to interpretation. There is zero correlation between what we think are reasonable rights for women, and what they think are reasonable rights for women. Oppressing women is not some side story. It's the main story. It's part of the recruitment strategy. Women are only useful for having children. And women need to be controlled and kept very, very small, very diminished.
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Item #13,892 on my “List of Things to Worry About Today.”
Diversity is our strength. Sure it is.
It’s no wonder they fought so hard to get rid of us.
the opposite of bacha bazi?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2577855/Dont-confuse-lesbian-Meet-tribe-Albanian-mountain-women-dress-work-live-men.html#:~:text=In%20the%20eyes%20of%20rural%20Albanian%20society%2C%20it,living%20as%20a%20Burrnesha%20since%20she%20was%2020-years-old.
So... bloggers?
Only Achmed, the suicide vest maker knows for sure.
One. It’s bs generally.
Two. To the extent it does exist, that’s ALL the crazy leftist liberals care about.
Cnn choosing for their viewers who to care about in Afghanistan
Lesbo leftards are all a tizzy with the notion..now if they can just exploit them to their advantage.
Not quite. Unlike the boys, the girls don't get homosexually raped, which seems the entire point of bacha bazi.
Wikipedia actually has a good entry on bacha bazi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
Coming soon to an Afghan refugee dump near you.
Did you read this? The families designate them (often families that have no male children) so they can study and work to support the family. They then go back to being “marriage” material at puberty, when they have to start wearing the black bag, etc. Needless to say, some of them, who have had a taste of male freedom, don’t like it.
As someone said on here years ago, it sounds like someone trying to pass a kidney stone.
These people are nuts. But seeing what’s going on here, I’m not sure we’re much better.
The entire culture of Afghanistan revolves around pederasty ; or the screwing of little boys
This is well known throughout the Islamic world
Girls and women are third class citizens , at best
it kinda really is the complete opposite though
posh=not for sex, act/work like a boy
bazi=for sex, act/dance like a girl
I see your point.
Hell of a culture.
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