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Originally Posted by PyramidsofMars
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.
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Okay, now that we have confirmed that any quantitative analysis based on where Calgary lies in the spectrum basically comes right out of thin air, Could this be another example of confirmational bias? Seems to me that if you're seeking out sexism, racism, et al you can find it pretty much anywhere you look whether that be Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary.