To me, this looks like the epitome of male suppression of women: Cloaked, and thus made anonymous women with a heavily armed man, who looks like he is patrolling them. What comes to mind when seeing this photo is that it looks like someone herding cattle for slaughter, and I see nothing whatsoever in such a situation that condones what has been done to women like these.

However, this particular photo makes me wonder if this lady on the desolate beach is an Afghan woman, doing what many others have done, namely transfixing her situation by turning her feelings into a special kind of poetry: A landay. These poems seem to be to Muslim women, e.g. in Afghanistan, what the political songs of protest were to the people of Western countries 50-60 years ago. However, although the protest - even rage - is obvious, but in my opinion the "bite" (and "landay" means "bite by a snake") is more often of an unstructured feminist nature and not political as such. Some of them are of an erotic nature, quite blunt at that.

In its traditional form, a landay consists of a single couplet, with nine syllables in the first line and thirteen in the second. These poems, which, as is obvious, first and foremost are for more or less illiteral people, are meant to be sung out. However, more than 100 have been collected by Eliza Griswold and published in her book, "I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan".
As we know from the Western poems and songs of protest these formed a strong tool of disapproval and dissent. They were used to highlight social injustice, and they worked very well. Some even survived as such up to today. Will that also be the case with landays like e.g. these:
“When sisters sit together, they always praise their brothers.
When brothers sit together, they sell their sisters to others.”
“Is there not one man here brave enough to see
how my untouched thighs burn the trousers off me?”
"Making love to an old man
is like fucking a shriveled cornstalk blackened by mold"
"You sold me to an old man, father.
May God destroy your home, I was your daughter"
https://static.poetryfoundation.org/o/media/landays.html
https://proletarianpoetry.com/2014/12/10/landays-by-afghan-women/
https://boobytrapec.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-new-male-sport-taharrush-gamea.html
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161116-the-22-syllables-that-can-get-you-killed
https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2102127.pdf
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-protest-songs-1235154848/
https://juhibansal.com/rebellion-in-afghan-womens-poetry-landays/
https://www.afghan-web.com/culture/poetry/
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