@village_person wrote:
According to every domestic violence support service in the Western world, if blokes control what their female partner eats and wears, who she can have as friends, where she can go, and checks her phone, that’s an abusive relationship. Unless it’s for religious reasons.
If a man that grows up in our society with what we consider normal Australian values behaves like this, it means that he is most likely paranoid, and pathologically controlling = mentally unstable and most likely danger to her.
However, if a man that grew up in society where it is expected that the man is in charge of the household, and it is his responsibility to "take care" of the women; that would include his sisters, or even widowed female relatives, then such actions are considered as part of his responsibilities. I do not believe it has anything to do with religion; it is cultural. Some 30 years ago my Greek friend's father would do exactly the same; she was allowed to spend time with her fiance only if she had a chaperon. Her father dropped her off in th morning and collected her after work. She was allowed to go to cinema with group of women, but her father would drop her off and pick her up, and she could not have a cup of coffee afterwards. And once she got married her husband would take over. I suspected he would not be as strict as her father, and their kids would have much more freedom. She grew up like that, she accepted that was what was expected, and did not mind. OK, maybe except not being able to have a coffee after movie, but basically she accepted that her father does it because he is protecting her reputation, and makes sure that she finds a good Greek husband for her.
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Voltaire: “Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities, Can Make You Commit Atrocities” .
