Gender Wars

Klara and I overheard a conversation where a woman expressed a wish to have been born male.

“I don’t get it,” I told Klara. “Being a woman is the best. We never have to carry any heavy stuff, and we can give birth to babies. Plus, we get the best clothes. And we don’t have to shave our faces every day. Or ever.”

“Yes,” said Klara with a passionate conviction. “And we don’t have to stand in a group and spit on the ground to see if our spit freezes before reaching soil and compete in whose spit freezes faster.”

I thought this sounded a little too specific but it turns out that this is what boys do on the playground in winter.