We live in an increasingly feminized society. I’ll just leave it at that.
Yet I’m 54 and was rarely spanked by a male figure. [’cept at school and that was about 50/50]
Not sure that applies. When I was a kid most of the spanking was done by my mother. Only major transgressions were deferred to Dad. That meant... waiting.
The thing you never see anymore is a mother swatting an unruly kid in the grocery store. On rare occasions when that does happen the woman draws all kinds of glares.