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America was founded by Protestants and it shows. Nudity and sexuality is basically the most cardinal sin, above any type of violence even. As someone outside t
by zpeti 5y ago
America was founded by Protestants and it shows. Nudity and sexuality is basically the most cardinal sin, above any type of violence even.
As someone outside the Anglo Saxon world I’m amazed how Puritan it is. Like seeing a nipple or kids seeing a nipple really isn’t the end of the world. But Americans can’t even get over public breastfeeding.
- captainredbeard 5y ago> But Americans can’t even get over public breastfeeding. Highly regional / generational.
- ashtonkem 5y agoAlso, I’m not sure how much of the hullabaloo about breast feeding in public is about the breast, and how much is about the idea that women with children should be at home, under the guise of it being about the breast. It could be more sexism than Puritanism.
- 8note 5y agoI don't think the sexism is separable from the Puritanism. The sexism built in to the religion and in the practitioners of it are reinforcing each other
- captainredbeard 5y ago...outside of extremely remote areas I don't think anyone in modern US culture would express distaste about a mom being out with children. You see women with infants in wine bars, etc.
- newaccount2021 5y agoAmerica was founded by Europeans, and it shows.
- watwut 5y agoThat is gross oversimplification of both American history and present. Can we not?