Women's love of symmetry is to blame for Canada's predicament: Quebec man

This is so out of left field, I had to share it with you.  Some guy wrote a letter to Cyberpresse with a very interesting theory:

Cyberpresse | Opinions - Révélations inédite dans La Presse:  Sans s'en rendre compte, La Presse se trouve à révéler aujourd'hui à quoi tient le Canada : au vouloir symétrique de ses protagonistes les plus influents. En effet, on apprend que les femmes préfèrent les hommes qui dansent bien. Or, ces derniers sont ceux ayant les corps les plus symétriques.

Le «corps canadien» s'étant imposé au cours des dernières décennies en est un symétrique. À la Trudeau. Toutes tentatives d'«asymétrisation» globale formelle (e.g. statut particulier, société distincte) ont échoué. Pourquoi ? Parce que les femmes préfèrent la symétrie. Laquelle aura été le mieux incarnée politiquement par Pierre Trudeau. Symétrique et bon danseur.

Essentially, we are in this situation because Pierre Trudeau was physically symmetrical and a good dancer, and women prefer symmetrical solutions so we got constitutional symmetry between provinces and regular defeats for asymmetrical solutions.  His evidence: women in Quebec are generally more federalist (and perhaps more centralist?) than men.

He even blames the Ignatieff phenomenon on women later on.

He refers to some articles in La Presse, but he doesn't provide any links.  I assume he's not serious but satirizing what someone else said.  Nevertheless I recall some "men's rights" angst recently getting published in Cyberpresse (something like, "The decline of the Québécois male") so we can't know for sure.

Comments

[belledame222]

It's all falling into place! Of course, that place is nowhere near this place...

seriously, that's damned abstract.