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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Please explain. I think a drive by generalization like that deserves a little more comment before I agree or disagree with you. Just for the record I am talking about men in Calgary as the population relevent to your comment not just men on CP.
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It might be biased sampling, but from my association with feminists (not really activists, just feminists) here and in other cities in Canada, Calgary seems to have a lot more of a 'traditional' viewpoint on women. I would not go as far as calling it misogynist, as I don't think it's particularly hateful, but the patriarchy was never really hateful; men just thought they knew better than women did. It sort of comes with the city's generally conservative outlook.
There was a survey done over the course of a few years in both the US and Canada asking something like "do you believe in the 'man of the house' and should women perform more traditional roles?" It's not the exact question, and I'm not going to look through a 1000 page Political Science textbook to find the exact question, but the results were interesting. In the States the number saying yes to that question rose from 40 to 49%, and in Canada dropped from 21 to 14%. I doubt the 14% number would have been representative in Calgary, from my day-to-day experience I feel it might be more around the 30% mark.