Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.
I’m sorry what.
The whole backbone of America keeping workers at the below-poverty wage level it’s fallen to because of inflation, is culturally built on the holdover idea of “Protestant Work Ethic” which has, over the generations, translated to “suffer through your work and shut up. Productivity = good. Therefore put up with everything, through mistreatment, sleep deprivation, steep stress, emotional labor, etc etc”
(not disagreeing with OP by the way, disagreeing with the addition)
Both Catholics AND Protestants think suffering is good.
Do Catholics not share the “having sex for pleasure is bad” mindset, either? Hm. I’ll have to look into that.
The point of the Protestant Work Ethic isn't to suffer, tho. Yes, that's an obvious and immediate side effect, but it isn't the point. The point is to be productive, useful, and "good". The point is to avoid pleasure.
Protestants believe pleasure is bad, therefore they believe they (and everyone else) should spend their time doing useful but unpleasing things.
Also growing up I was told to be happy while I worked and rejoice in the labor, so some subsets of Protestant Work Ethic try to refrain the work as pleasing/joyful sorta, but even that still boils down to "worldly" pleasures are bad.
As for if Catholics share the ideas about sex, I actually don't know. I know the Catholic church had very strict rules on when you could have sex in the European Medieval times, like no sex on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, holidays, birthdays, and more.
