A bit ago, Shawn Macomber wrote a story about women’s progress in Afghanistan. Forget which side of the aisle you sit on, it should be celebrated that women can now attend school and enjoy even the most basic of freedoms in a country where they so recently suffered. But for some, that just isn’t possible.

Take this response, from “Ryd” on a discussion board, to some of what Macomber had to say:

I think this writer overreacted to the situation. Afghani women may have been subject to some heavy-handed treatment on a few occasions but overall, the women were not complaining. So, what was the problem? Just a trendy concern, is all people had for the women.

What happened to the idea of giving a voice to the voiceless? “Women were not complaining” so they must have been awfully happy, right? Of course, with no voice in their political system, no free and open press to express or explain the horrors of many of the women’s’ lives, and no government protection, it’s highly unlikely that this little fool would ever have heard their complaints to begin with.

The rest of Ryd’s comments are just as hilarious, and the pose of superiority that he adopts is laughable. In fact, arguing against someone as ill-suited to actual thought as Ryd is probably just a waste of time and effort. So why am I doing so? Because one good thing came out of his idiotic commentary.

Shawn’s reply.

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