I was seeing on the box that current evidence seems to suggest that the meta in the diet of Paleolithic people wasn't big hairy animals, but rabbits. Easier and safer to catch, easier to carry around and cook, and tastier. Which all seems much more likely. They weren't stupid. (And it'd mean the women would as likely as not have been off hunting them with the kids, while the blokes hung around the cave singing songs and telling stories. Matriarchy's got a lot going for it. Just so long as women don't copy too many male ways, or we're really in deep trouble.)

Men are merely exploring possibilities that were unavailable to them for hundreds of years. Women are, as well. What's wrong with that? (hesperis)

Well, I don't know anyone, male or female, who has been around for hundreds of years. I'd have thought the more powerful thing might be people trying to be a bit different from your mother or father or both.

And I never understand this seat-up / seat-down bit either - don't most men leave the seat down anyway?