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| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Yes, I definitely would. Why? |
I would largely say the same of North America as well, though there have been many movements in the US at least within the last century or so to combat this in numerous ways. It's a difficult thing to answer from the inside looking out, but it seems to me that a specific attraction to younger people of either sex (discounting pedophilia, we're not talking that young) marks a concurrent phenomenon for linear sexual control over one's partner, as it seems general knowledge that younger people are typically more naive, innocent, more pliable to the whims of exploitation. I am not saying this is a bad thing per se, it is merely a thing. Respect for either sex is a socially ingrained phenomenon as well, ever since it became not ok to beat any pretty lady you see in the street and drag her back to your cave by her hair. I know, men got shafted pretty bad there, huh?
Though it seems to me that descendant latin culture is particularly paternalistic - like the man of the house is to be respected as breadwinner and generally sole decision-maker, everyone else under his roof is basically there to serve him. By no means am I implying this does not exist in North America, but the downplaying of the male through numerous extraneous historical and social clashes/events could have very possibly lead to a very distinctive shift in sexual objectivity along with it - the prominence of women as individuals and decision-makers, along with it the merits of which could be basically post-Freudian interpretations on what values to see in the opposite sex. Thoughts?
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