I'm really wondering about this. I'd never say yer wrong about this, Dave...Maybe it's just that more songs are made, sung & collected by men that there's some selective discrimination here in the songs recorded. Or maybe, since real folksong accurately reflects life, men are so rarely foolish that there was little to sing about. Hmmm.

I'm thinking... add:

Child 281: THE KEACH I' THE CREEL (although she's sillier than he)

Child 275: GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR (they're pretty equally silly)

I think, at least in Scottish song but maybe generally, foolish men are old (auld) married or single, or else drinking rakes, or tailors. It's formulaic. But women can be silly about _anything_.