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[–]blackrainbow[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm personally from Italy, this is the only time I'm thankful I live in a conservative country. Anyway, there is still a lot of populism and people are more polarised than ever like the rest of the world.

[–]vitunrotta 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm thankful I live in a conservative country

I sort of get where you're coming from, but regardless of its roots, misogyny is misogyny. Period.

I live in another Southern European country myself (as stated above, am originally from Finland) and by god - the blatant dismissal of women here (unless they are WIVES or MOTHERS) is very off-putting; and that is me trying to say it veeery nicely. Conservative ideology is not the "fix" for this or anything at all, actually. I'd even wager a lot of conservatives would love to see more of the woman-erasing TRA bullshit because they also tend to (surprise!) loathe gay people, so in their logic it would make much more sense to just transition a person instead of admitting that they simply are sexually attracted to the same sex. (Example - a parent sees an effeminate son - fears he's gay - GAY IS WRONG IN GOD'S EYES - brainwashes them to think they're a girl instead.) Yep, nopedy nope.

[–]blackrainbow[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think Italy is not that backwards, but you have to distinguish between Northern and southern Italy. In the north gay people are accepted pretty much everywhere and now is not a big thing like in the past. People could be sexist and racist though.