Women should not travel more than 48 miles without a male escort – Muslim group

[Regina]

It manifests to different degrees within different cultures. If you're talking about where is a relatively better place to be a woman in the 21st Century world, you can't compare Southern Europe and The Southern US to most Islamic countries (with a few exceptions). If you as a woman file for divorce or go out in a miniskirt in Italy, Malta or Spain, you might get called names and have some Hail Mary's said for you, but the shit's not illegal. I'm not defending that, it's wrong when it happens and as a Southern European, I'm here for conversations about misogyny within my own culture. I can hear that without having to derail it and say "but what about misogyny over there?!" which is what people are doing here when people want to talk about it exclusively within the context of Islam. Try wearing a miniskirt in Dubai though, I dare you.

But I see a conflict in ideas in what you're saying anyway. On one hand you look like you want to argue that Islam is no more exceptionally misogynist than any other culture and that misogyny exists everywhere, but then you single out regions where you say it's always more misogynist? I'm confused...