@Bill Cipher
The two don’t go hand in hand, though. It’s true that Muslims mistreat women and justify it as protection. But the traditional male protective impulse toward women is a positive attribute. And it just makes sense.
God knows my husband is protective of me, but he’s the polar opposite of smothering and abusing. Same with the women in my family. We’re talking confident professional women who enjoy strong protective men.
Sorry, but with all due respect the traditional western “protection†of women has been just as damaging. Less graphic, perhaps, but just as demeaning.
I still vividly remember one of those traditional “protective†men demeaning my mother and blaming my brother’s apparent disappearance on the fact that she had the uppitiness to get divorced from a toxic marriage.
Turned out my brother had actually been taken by someone; he hadn’t run away because there was no “protective†man in the house.
It’s called “protection†because it makes the men who engage in it feel better about themselves and what they’re doing, but it isn’t protection in any real sense, it’s subservience and chattelhood.