International Women’s Day is March 8th, and since NATO cares about the ladies, they’re going all out this year. It’s tough being a woman in Afghanistan, especially if you’re a woman in the dude heavy Afghan military. But since there aren’t any Afghan women willing to talk about what that’s like, NATO had to go another route in making a case for the cause.
It’s the Scott/Bale argument for why everyone in that reboot of the Charlton Heston Moses biopic ((“I don’t know the fact that I was born in Wales and suffer with this skin that can’t deal with the sun should dictate that Ridley should say, ‘In that case, he’s not the right man to play the role.’ I did the best that I can.”
This was said by someone who claims to be a functional adult. And it’s not Scott’s fault – it’s all those people with the money who are the real bigots here.
“I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such. I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”)) makes Opie Taylor ((No, I’m not going to explain Opie Taylor. That’s why they invented Google.)) look positively bronze: white people care more about brown people problems if there’s a white person doing the brownsplaining.
[Tweet “NATO gets that brown problems need a white face: Women in the AAF.”]Even if white people cared about words that came out of brown mouth holes more, there’s no way they could have found Afghan women in uniform to do it for them. Why? Four reasons:
1. None of them are patriotic enough
2. They’re inexperienced and don’t care about their kids
Afghan air force Col. Latifa Nabizada stands with her daughter, Malalai, alongside an Mi-17 helicopter Oct. 24, 2012 at the Kabul International Airport. Col. Nabizada was the Afghan air force’s first female pilot. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Quinton Russ/RELEASED)
3. They are all pathologically camera shy
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4. Words are hard and we would just want video anyway