Re: Taliban hatred for women?

"Louis Proyect" wrote:

In the Nov. 4, 2001 Los Angeles Times there's an
article by Barbara 
Ehrenreich titled "Veiled Threat" that addresses the
question of 
Taliban hatred for women.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000088146nov04.story
She speculates that because men in places like
Afghanistan suffer 
from diminished economic expectations, they take it
out on women. 

"I don't know, but I'm willing to start the dialogue
by risking a 
speculation: Maybe part of the answer lies in the ways
that 
globalization has posed a particular threat to men.
Western industry 
has displaced traditional crafts--female as well as
male--and 
large-scale, multinational-controlled agriculture has
downgraded the 
independent farmer to the status of hired hand."



This is logical because before globalization and
colonialism when "places like Afghanistan" were so
much better off, women were treated so well.

Clint Ballinger 


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