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The thing about some gypsies is, they think of themselves strict Catholics and just like many Christians throughout Europe and indeed the world, they follow the bible code that states a woman's use is to produce male offspring and cater to the men in their lives.

We don't have to go back more than a seventy or so years in this country to see how women were expected to accept their lot and we can still see this in the poorer or more rural parts of Europe, especially Eastern Europe where the older women still cover their hair and still consider their husband to be the boss.

If gypsies lived like Quakers, we would totally accept their different ways and think them quaint but a lot don't; the gypsies society we hate are the ones who live in no go areas, even for the police. Crime is rife, fighting is an expected part of growing up for the men folk and the single women, at least on that programme seemed to dress and dance provocatively, even though they are virgins. All of this gives out confusing messages to us none gypsies. How can they be strict Catholics if they have such little regard for law and order?.

The answer is, many gypsies have held onto parts of their religion that suits them and disregarded other parts of it that don't. What we see as female repression, they see as the will of God, just like Muslim women. Its not about tradition, its about religion, at least for them.