I think you're wrong. I'm French so my "social conservative christian" parents still taught me to roll cigarets, that abortions saved young girls' future and that you shouldn't beat your wife if she wants a divorce, which is for me american "social liberalism".
The way I see rigidity is to associate set roles to women, beating the gayness out of gays or shunning you for marrying out of your parents' religion. What you describe is complete laxism, maybe not telling men that they do have to own up their decisions, especially raising children that even someone like my dad did, despite being more flexible maybe than your parents ?
And I'm socially liberal in the sense I married a Chinese and raise my daughter telling her mariage is not the only goal in life, that if she's gay it won't matter, and that religion is BS, but I still expect her to raise her kids properly if she has some... so I'm not sure your parents raised you well because they were rigid or simply because they were good honest people... which even the liberals you dislike could also be !
The way I see rigidity is to associate set roles to women, beating the gayness out of gays or shunning you for marrying out of your parents' religion. What you describe is complete laxism, maybe not telling men that they do have to own up their decisions, especially raising children that even someone like my dad did, despite being more flexible maybe than your parents ?
And I'm socially liberal in the sense I married a Chinese and raise my daughter telling her mariage is not the only goal in life, that if she's gay it won't matter, and that religion is BS, but I still expect her to raise her kids properly if she has some... so I'm not sure your parents raised you well because they were rigid or simply because they were good honest people... which even the liberals you dislike could also be !