CALL AND RESPONSE

July 2003

by Barry Stagg

The Two Sisters

I was sitting in a Second Cup out in Port Credit, Mississauga on the weekend when I saw two casually dressed people, evidently a man and his wife, probably in their late forties -- early fifties coming in dressed in identical white shorts and casual shirts. It struck me that they perfectly defined the new consumerist feminism of the first few years of the twenty- first century. The husband and the wife were the two sisters.

It has taken a good many years for the well-off of western society to get to where the average, modern husband has reached the point where he is his wife's sister. Doubtless with the hormones receding in many a well-fed babyboomer, this will come as something welcome and inevitable for those who are much more interested in maintaining their comfortable position in society than anything else.

With the advent of the trendiness of commercial feminism it was inevitable that the configuration of the average well-to-do household would change. It has changed so that men now feel they are modern and well cultured by assuming the role of sexless, non-threatening, non-heterosexual sisters. What could be better in this age of the domination of society by bureaucrats and little people bent on controlling others through process, routine, habits, and that all encompassing routine known as political correctness.

Men can now consider themselves more advanced socially if each represents nothing other than a friendly sister toward his wife. It must make for a pleasant evening as they go hand in hand, both well perfumed and meek, both comfortable and secure in the knowledge that neither will ever make anything resembling a heterosexual advance upon the other.

The new eunuch society is upon us. I want to offer my congratulations to those who have worked long and hard to get to the point where the best of our society have given up their biological birth right in favour of a regulatory etiquette. Denying biology in the name of politeness is the new social credo.


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