The car wasn't starting, and he and a stranded collaborator swaggered around, "being all macho and cool and talking automobile talk." I approached them, and, as explained in the story, asked if they had jumper cables. They nodded. Then they looked under the hood of the car, and they saw there was no battery. "'Hell,' I said, 'there's your problem right there. Somebody stole your battery.'" With this simple story about cars, Robert Fulghum shows the fallacy of gender encoding -- the Y chromosome does not mean a man knows how to use jumper cables. This is one of the... Read more →