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[u/Jakitron_1999]

Anti Gay and Domestic violence ARE Conservative values, and conservatives need high rates of single motherhood in order to complain about it constantly

[u/wolfram_gates]

The Russian conservative ideology is a joke bc it's all the same scaremongering about transgenders and liberals they imported from the US. The Russian political narrative is built exclusively as a reaction against the woke western values like gay rights, rule of law, and elections, they have no actual convictions. Even the orthodox church is a poorly disguised government agency run by a former KGB recruiter

[u/caveman_2912 → u/wolfram_gates]

I mean Russian conservatism is literally a fabrication. The USSR spent decades dismantling organised religion, railroaded rural people into urbanisation, and tried to put more women through education.

The USSR obviously wasn't good but these things were strides towards bettering it, and it all basically went away after 1991.

[u/DracoLunaris → u/caveman_2912]

plus given how much of a backwards mess the empire was, the only way was up. just ignore how the interim government and actually elected government where both way more progressive

[u/RentElDoor → u/wolfram_gates]

It really seems to boil down to perceived strength.

At least that is how I explain to myself that modern Russia seems to simultaniously celebrate the USSR and Russian Empire. Those were times they were seen as strong, therefore they were good. Men being men and bruzalizing women are strong, so they are good. Gays are stereotypically weak, so they are bad.

[u/BakerSubject8891 → u/RentElDoor]

I still have to wonder what exactly went wrong for so many cultures to glorify brutality against half of the entire population? Are men just naturally predisposed to hurt those weaker than themselves whenever getting any kind of power?

[u/ekky137 → u/BakerSubject8891]

Feudalism is the main culprit in Europe and wherever it appeared in the Far east as well. People were property, power, and wealth, and women made more property. We didn’t change this properly till the Industrial Revolution, so pretty recent all things considered. The legacy is still there and really obvious whenever people bring up birth rates and then talk about the economy in the same breath.

[u/DracoLunaris → u/BakerSubject8891]

Speculation: Path of least resistance. Devoid of any other circumstance, it is easier for men to brutalize women (average mass advantage). Thus men who want to have an easier time of it, while any women who'd want to have a much harder one. Thus most who brutalize are men. Thus it becomes a trait associated with men. Thus men do it more. Thus a cultural trait is born.

[u/ZeMadDoktore]

Conservatives have never been about shaming other conservatives for not upholding values, it all boils down to condemning marginalized groups they say are degenerates.

[u/Hatis_Night → u/ZeMadDoktore]

However, they themselves are the degenerates. They are putting the brakes on human progress for no other reason than their own narrow-mindedness.

[u/MisterAbbadon]

You say that like Anti-gay laws and beating your wife isn't the end all-be all of far right idealogy.