As a side-issue with some relevance, I have a Catholic friend who went to a boarding school run by the Sisters of Mercy in the mid 20th Century. She says it was hell for the girls. The nuns were weird and cruel, with very strange ideas about perfectly normal aspirations of teenagers. She had to avoid polishing her shoes as 'boys might see her knickers reflected in them'. Short gloves should be worn when going out in case her hand touched a boy's inadvertently and inflamed him to make a sexual advance. The nuns interrogated the students ceaselessly about their thoughts, and imposed strange and nasty punishments with apparent pleasure. She felt they were psychologically repressed to a dangerous degree, obsessional about purity, and bitter about their own situation. It sounds a bit like Guantanamo Bay to me. My friend spent years there weeping quietly in her bed at night. She says they were entirely Merciless. Yet I have known loads of super nuns of Catholic and Protestant orders, women I admired enormously. This seems to be all about women controlled, repressed and abused as a result of men's dominance and becoming monstrous in their turn.