>Her comment: and of course there's a male in the position of the minister of men's affairs?
That's a good one.
Of course, the reason that an office of Women's affairs is even needed is because women were treated as inferior citizens for many centuries.
"In God's eyes, women are, and always have been, equal to men." This is the way religion should work, but not the way it has usually worked in the past. (To a similar statement, "In God's eyes, all men are equal", Mafalda commented: "I wonder to what eye doctor He goes?")
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
