http://hesitating.org/2006/06/29/a-country-torn/ Thinking critically about the world so that you don't have to. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://hesitating.org/2006/06/29/a-country-torn/#comment-29 Brendan Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:39:11 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2006/06/29/a-country-torn/#comment-29 Although I hope it wasn't a major deflation during your visit I am glad to see that your most negative response to Ecuador was the inherant sexism trickling around like primordial ooze. Amongst my many issues with the Japanese, probably my primary source of loathing, is the attitude towards women. Probably more opporunities abound professionally for the fairer sex across the Pacific but the latent misogyny in the Japanese culture-- the woman as subserviant-- undercuts what 'advances' may have been made in the business world. I can only imagine that attitudes are less buried throughout Latin America, but couldn't begin to attempt and linear draft of why that may have developed. The Catholic Church certainly is a severe presence but you're also looking at a region where poor women were being routinely sterilized when visiting their state-sponsered OBGYN. Traditionally the governments down south have little need for Catholics so I suppose it's more likely that a cultural opression exists independant of religion. Superfantastico! Although I hope it wasn’t a major deflation during your visit I am glad to see that your most negative response to Ecuador was the inherant sexism trickling around like primordial ooze. Amongst my many issues with the Japanese, probably my primary source of loathing, is the attitude towards women. Probably more opporunities abound professionally for the fairer sex across the Pacific but the latent misogyny in the Japanese culture– the woman as subserviant– undercuts what ‘advances’ may have been made in the business world. I can only imagine that attitudes are less buried throughout Latin America, but couldn’t begin to attempt and linear draft of why that may have developed. The Catholic Church certainly is a severe presence but you’re also looking at a region where poor women were being routinely sterilized when visiting their state-sponsered OBGYN. Traditionally the governments down south have little need for Catholics so I suppose it’s more likely that a cultural opression exists independant of religion. Superfantastico!

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