Sex, Gender, and Generation: Age of Consent and Moral Regulation in Canada
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Abstract
The article considers the political process in raising the age of consent in Canada and its impact on gender and equality. The purpose of the legislation is the protection of children, but evidence reveals a gendered discourse that targets the sexuality of young women in particular within the context of a heterosexual family norm. The efficacy of this norm arises from a post‐feminist policy climate in which neo‐liberal refamilialization complements the remoralizing of the family by the Conservative Party of Canada and its supporters. This enables the characterization of the child as innocent and in need of protection and diverts attention from regulation of young people's sexuality. Conservatives manipulate this identity for political ends in what is termed the politics of generation. This precludes youth agency and reinforces inequalities of both gender and generation. Thus, moral regulation reaches beyond regulation of young people's sexuality to regulation of the broader society. El artículo considera el proceso político en torno al incremento de la edad de consentimiento sexual en Canadá y su impacto sobre la igualdad de género. El objetivo de la legislación es la protección de los(as) niños(as), pero la evidencia revela que un discurso de género se concentra en la sexualidad de jóvenes mujeres en particular en el contexto de la norma de una familia heterosexual. La eficacia de esta norma surge del clima político post‐feminista en el cual la re familiarización neoliberal complementa la re moralización de la familia impulsada por el Partido Conservador de Canadá y quienes lo apoyan. Esto caracteriza al niño(a) como inocente y en necesidad de protección, desviando la atención de la regulación de la sexualidad de los jóvenes. Los conservadores manipulan esta identidad para fines políticos en lo que se conoce como las políticas de generación. Argumentamos aquí que esto cancela el ejercicio de la autonomía por parte de los jóvenes y refuerza las desigualdades de género y generación. Así, la regulación moral sobrepasa la regulación de la sexualidad de los jóvenes convirtiéndose en regulación de toda la sociedad.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".