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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (56206)7/26/2004 2:08:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793990
 
That doesn’t suggest a causative relationship between media extravagance and violence against women. Free, prosperous societies will always stretch – and usually break – the boundaries of traditional morality. That’s what happens when people are free.


There is much more to it than freedom vs. oppression. There is the underlying attitude towards women - to put it starkly, are they people or are they livestock? The Arab world, taking its cue from the Byzantine world, always lent toward the 'livestock' end of the spectrum. The Arab world never developed an equivalent of Europe's code of chivalry, and you'll notice that this was long before flaunting sexual freedom got much play anywhere. Ottoman envoys to Europe in the 15th and 16th and 17th centuries wrote home with amazement regarding the astonishing levels of freedom and respect accorded to ladies.
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