ext_19977 ([identity profile] klaudyna.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alivemagdolene 2013-08-05 01:03 pm (UTC)

The Catholic influence is definitely a big part of it - it's a bit similar in my own country, although there isn't quite as much of it (e.g. there is a bit less objectification - but part of the reason why it's so awful in Italy is probably their TV and its gross treatment of women as sex objects; a lot of it is Berlusconi's television though, so...)

I'm not sure about Ireland tho' because I've never been there and I don't know any Irish folks. It could be that the UK these days has become so secularized that the religious influence doesn't matter so much anymore, but then there is the rest of Ireland and I've never thought of it as particularly misogynistic either, so dunno but I'd definitely like to read more about this.

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