Religion trumping freedom

[kandrathe]

This weeks newsweek int. features an article about murder of women in Italy. This has to do with the fact that men can't manage the modern day equality of men and women.

I think this is it. It's hard to find newsweek. The print is dead, and the online will be absorbed into "The Daily Beast".

Some of my thoughts are echoed; "Many more cases barely make the headlines because domestic violence is still considered a private matter in Italy. Increasingly, authorities blame a misogynic Italian culture, which tends to assume marital or interrelationship problems are best solved without help from the outside."

Male attitudes about themselves, their relationships, and womens roles are taught culturally. Domestic violence, first starts with a permissive attitude toward violence. This is the type of guy who would get violent with anyone if he felt like they insulted him. We perpetuate this "tough guy" image in our culture. Then, there is jealousy. It is ugly, and most people aren't taught how to deal with it. I think it has to do with power, fear of abandonment, and the loss of control.

Everything important I have learned about how to treat/relate to women I learned from my mother and sisters, and not from my father or other men in my upbringing. His advice, primarily to treat them like fragile glass idols to be worshiped, was all wrong. But really, men are like waffles, and women are like spaghetti.