Who here is a feminist?

[TaraJo]

Yeah, stupid thinking boy here makes me think of a story I heard.

A little girl is learning to bake a ham from her mom. The first thing the mother does is cut the end off the ham. The girl is puzzled. "Mommy?" she asks, "Why do you cut the end off the ham?" Her mother replies "That's how my mom taught me to do it." The girl still wants to know, though, so she finds her grandmother and asks her "Grammy, why did you teach mommy to cut the end off a ham?" The grandmother simply said "I taught her to cook it the same way my mother taught me to bake it." She was still determined, though, and luckily her gread-grandmother was still alive. Undaunted, she went to the great-grandmother and asked her "Why did you teach Grammy to cut the end off the ham?" This time, the great-grandmother responded with a laugh. "I only cut the end off because the ham was 15 inches long and I had a 13 inch pan!"

The moral is, sometimes we carry on these traditions and we don't even know why we have them and sometimes, if you actually bother to learn why we stated those traditions in the first place, you realize that they aren't really necessary anymore, not to mention outdated traditions are plain ol' unhelpful.

Translate this to the conversation. Why did men get into positions of power before? Muscle helped them force their way into power, no doubt. You could even make a case for women being mostly breeding stock (and from a purely evolutionary standpoint, it kindamakes sense, even if it is still highly unethical). Generally, though, if you examine those reasons and compare them to the modern world we live in, you quickly realize that primarly masculine leadership is about as necessary as cutting the end off the ham.