Posted: Dec 10, 2014 10:59 am
Animavore wrote:Its the wording you're using is the problem. "Backward", "Pointy-hatted, medieval trolls". As I've said, you don't even realise youre doing it.
I've no problem with referring to the catholic church as "pointy hatted, medieval trolls." The catholic church remains one of the key chains holding Ireland back from making progress on equality. Once that is gone, I'll have no concerns about Ireland holding a number one slot on equality. You inferred, wrongly, from my posts that I was somehow applying this to the entire Irish population, rather than taking a breath and thinking about who I might be applying it to.
I have friends out in Ireland who, having lived most of their lives in Dublin, have moved out into the back of beyond. They described it as being very much like "craggy island" partly in jest, partly because the social attitudes expressed there were jarred with what they were used in the "big city." Then you'll find the same in the UK with people who live their lives in London and then get exposed to attitudes in the north of England. I'm not immune to the reality that the capital of a nation tends to be socially ahead of the rest.
Like Scot has said, I know attitudes in Ireland have drastically changed in my lifetime. I don't need to tell you that, you know it already. But, there are still "cliff faces" in social attitudes that are far from being completely eroded away.