Gender Gossip

<![CDATA[Western Civ has plenty of examples of the battle between the sexes, and the perception of gender roles.

Two tidbits from today’s headlines:

Christie Brinkley’s divorce custody settlement had to insist that her husband not take the kids on a commercial airline during a red terror alert.

A pregnant women being driven to the hospital by her husband had her baby in the back seat, and didn’t let him know because she thought it would make him drive badly.

You men are not our protectors… If you were, who would there be to protect us from?
— Mary Edwards Walker, Civil War doctor

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