It is not a "belief system", it is a retrograde, astoundingly primitive
(meaning, literally, not evolving or progressing), social system which
has been imposed on the general population with the specific intent to
suppress the full and equal participation of women in all aspects of
human activity.
Any attempt to call such a system "culture" or
tradition" is at once a willful and mendacious distortion of the truth
and a blatant, insufferable insult to all of the world's women.
By
the same token, in what cannon was it ever established that 'culture"
and 'tradition" are inherently positive values? Certainly human history
is proof positive to the contrary.
Protect us, Oh Lady, from Culture and Tradition.
Amen.
