This sounds like the UK to me. The English are almost as confused by sexuality as their North American cousins. I wouldn't necessarily consider every aspect of every European culture as respectful (no, the US doesn't have a monopoly on idiots - it only appears so on message boards) but a lot of what you describe above just wouldn't happen in many countries.
At the same time there are big differences country to country. I wouldn't even try to compare how Italians treat women compared to Scandinavians. Italians and Spanish are the worse, those piece of treat women like toys. And the women there fit in too. Their television are kinda like a soft pornô. The russians treat women almost like men,they don't think twice before punch a girl
While mysoginy is present in EU politics it's nowhere as bad as in US politics and public life - women in a position of power apparently scare the out of Americans.