The DNC convention and its aftermath were accompanied by the usual establishment ‘girl power’ posturing in which the elevation of political and corporate players who happen to be women (whatever those are anyway) is treated as an accomplishment for all women. Or as Hillary Clinton put it, the hardest glass ceiling

While the DNC was wrapping up its faux feminist coronation of Kamala, the Taliban had wrapped their celebration of the defeat of America and the Afghanistan government with a parade of military hardware stolen from us which was then capped with a proclamation banning women from speaking in public.

Or looking a man in the eye.

Taliban leaders in Afghanistan have ordered fresh limitations on women, forbidding them from singing, reciting poetry or speaking aloud in public and mandating them to keep their faces and bodies covered at all times.

Women also are not allowed to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa.

Another article prohibits playing music in public transport, the travel of female passengers unless accompanied by a male guardian, and the mingling of unrelated men and women.

This is the difference between actual feminism and a farce that reduces feminism to abortion.

When Kamala first ran for president, she claimed that she would protect gains for Afghan women and girls. Instead, she was the ‘last person in the room’ on Biden’s disastrous withdrawal policy that led to the collapse of Afghanistan.

In the run-up to the last days of chaos, Harris proudly told the media about the “key role” she played in the decision to abandon Afghanistan. At the time, she praised Biden’s retreat policy as “courageous” and “the right thing to do.” Just this week, an aide to Harris told the Washington Post that she “strongly supported President Biden’s decision to end America’s longest war.”

There’s no conversation about that, but maybe there ought to be. As the establishment tries to turn Kamala’s candidacy into a feminist statement, her actions led to women in Afghanistan being unable to leave their houses without a man, show their faces or speak in public.