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Justice for Men & Boys 
This reminds me about early reporting from BBC and Grauniad as the Taliban took over in 10 Days in 2021. Lots about beauty Salons and the demise of the fashion industry. Taliban beauty salon ban: Three Afghan women mourn the end of a valued service – BBC News and Kabul make-up artist: ‘Women like me are Taliban targets’ – BBC News In a way illustrating why such things might not be so popular there. One of the world’s poorest countries with an overwhelmingly rural population subsistence farming. The few wealthy “western” families and their ostentations probably didn’t go down well. Its not that I thought this was good or justified. But the sheer volume of such pieces at the time as the country was convulsed by the final stages of a decades long war rather illustrated the obsessions of the western media and its female audience. ‘I want Afghan women to be free to wear colour’ – BBC News
By the way I found one piece about the Taliban banning barbers from trimming beards and immodest “western” male clothes from 2021 and this Taliban warn Afghans who wore ‘un-Islamic’ Peaky Blinders outfits – BBC News last year, just a reminder boys and men too are controlled in what is a Theocracy.
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