Article on the treatment of rebellious girls in Spain in the 60s and 70s

[DisappearingGirl]

Fascinating but upsetting BBC article on the convent re-education of rebellious girls in Spain in the 60s and 70s

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr43vx0rrwvo

"Reformatories were institutions where girls and young women who refused to conform to the Franco regime's Catholic values were detained - single mothers, girls with boyfriends, lesbians ... girls who'd been sexually assaulted ... orphans and abandoned girls ..."

How utterly shocking! Those poor women 😔 😡

I agree with you. The worst case like this that I have heard of is that of Leonora Carrington. She was an English artist who went to live in France with the famous German artist Max Ernst. Her wealthy parents disapproved.

During the Second World War Max Ernst was interned and Leonora decided to move to Spain. Her family placed her in an institution in Spain. She did have psychological problems but what happened to her was unjustified.

She was 'treated' with cardiazol. This drug when injected causes extreme terror. It was one of a number of treatments that were used at the time and are no longer used. Another one is insulin shock. Lobotomies were practiced at the time too.

Leonora managed to escape to Mexico where she became a well-known and well-loved artist. Her art has been compared to that of Frida Kahlo.

The Magdalene laundries in Ireland were even worse, because they operated till the 1990s and Ireland was not a dictatorship.
The Catholic Church was basically enslaving into forced Labour a mix of girls convicted for petty crimes and innocent girls considered immoral, like unmarried mothers.

The official report of the Irish government is harrowing reading.

Here it is:
https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-justice-home-affairs-and-migration/collections/report-of-the-inter-departmental-committee-to-establish-the-facts-of-state-involvement-with-the-magdalen-laundries/

There are definitely parallels between the countries that have enthusiastically subscribed to gender ideology and a recent history of extreme misogyny and institutional punishing of women and girls.

@hholiday can you elaborate? I am not sure Ireland and Spain are the European countries where gender ideology became the most pervasive.