{"id":29487,"date":"2015-01-03T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29487"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T03:25:28","slug":"urban-canada-where-chinas-one-child-policy-has-been-religiously-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/03\/urban-canada-where-chinas-one-child-policy-has-been-religiously-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Canada – where China’s one-child policy has been religiously observed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine what has gotten into David Warren<\/a> to distract him from posts on the inner spirituality of the Catholic Church to suddenly turn to a bit of Canadian Ethnography:<\/p>\n

… in a DINK household (\u201cdouble income, no kids\u201d) the rules subtly change, or rather change overtly, and no need remains for any sort of manliness. Indeed, should the woman make a substantial income, perhaps the man should consider living off her. She can claim him for a little break on her taxes, after all. Consider: housework, without kids, is a snip. And when his \u201cpartner\u201d gets home, physically and emotionally exhausted from work, burning with the little humiliations she has suffered out there in the \u201creal world,\u201d and seriously hungry into the bargain \u2014 he can remind her that they are a \u201cmodern\u201d couple. Tasks such as cooking should be shared equally.<\/p>\n

This is old hat, of course. For the most part it also applies where the Red Chinese \u201cone child policy\u201d is obeyed, as across most of urban Canada.<\/p>\n

I became exceptionally aware of the new arrangements in a visionary experience, twenty years ago. It consisted of attending a \u201cbake sale\u201d for the public school in which my sons were enrolled (temporarily, I assure you). I got to meet the whole \u201csorority\u201d in my new liberal neighbourhood. (Kingston, Ontario: never go there.) This was mostly an \u201caudio\u201d vision, I should explain, though it had a video component. I\u2019d never seen nor heard before so many whole-earth, left-wing, squeaky-voiced \u201chouse husbands,\u201d all in one place. The immediate revelation was that spiritual emasculation actually changes a man\u2019s voice in the same way physical emasculation does.<\/p>\n

Among other discoveries was that the men had done most of the baking \u2014 which was good, for men often make better bakers. And we turn to the castrati<\/em> to hit the highest notes.<\/p>\n

The women, on the other hand, I could hear roar. The tone in which they addressed their squeakers was beyond instructive. I reflected that if a man spoke to his wife like that, in public, he\u2019d be courting arrest. The feminists had now got exactly what they wanted.<\/p>\n

There was more. The \u201cgender\u201d stereotypes had reversed at every other level. These women were now the sexual aggressors. I recall one in particular \u2014 an executive in a local \u201carts\u201d operation \u2014 who had previously called me \u201cfascist\u201d as well as \u201csexist\u201d in reference to something I had written in a newspaper. That she hated me still, I could take for granted. But right in front of her lamentable house-husband she was, unbelievably, \u201cflirting\u201d (although the term seemed over-refined). The wee fellow looked harmlessly outraged. He made sounds such as I imagine a gerbil makes when his mate shoves him aside. On his<\/em> fidelity, I\u2019m sure she could rely, for no other woman could want him. But she was trawling for something more masculine, herself.<\/p>\n

Feminism alone could account for the collapse of the birth rate (which does, incidentally, have economic repercussions); for it operates at so many levels, from the neutering of males, to making females so extremely unattractive. But it cannot account for the rise of feminism. On that, I\u2019m with Marx: it has a chiefly economic causation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t imagine what has gotten into David Warren to distract him from posts on the inner spirituality of the Catholic Church to suddenly turn to a bit of Canadian Ethnography: … in a DINK household (\u201cdouble income, no kids\u201d) the rules subtly change, or rather change overtly, and no need remains for any sort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,53],"tags":[254,95,87,303,43],"class_list":["post-29487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-politics","tag-gender","tag-jobs","tag-ontario","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7FB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29489,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions\/29489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}