We had a local girl go over to Afghanistan with the national guard as some sort of liaison to the Afghan women. She was all idealistic about helping the Afghan women and children.
When she came back she was a different much older women less than a year later. At the post office someone made the mistake of asking her about how much she helped them. She told her, “If you want to help the Afghans, you go over there and kill every last one of them over about 5 or 6 years old. Then you bring the children back and never speak of that place again”.
She said the women were even worse than the men. She said the only reason an Afghan woman wouldn’t cut her head off was because the woman’s husband might beat her to death for depriving him of the honor.
All cultures are equal.
Just...different.
Kipling wrote some pointedly similar lines about the Afghanistan of over 100 years ago. Sounds like not much has changed.
Rudyard Kipling had some thoughts on the subject.
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”