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From: gam@proper.UUCP
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Subject: Re: early brainwashing
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Date: Sat, 21-Jan-84 03:14:21 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 21 03:14:21 1984
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		As the children were preparing for a game of Farmer-in-the-Dell,
	one of the little girls asked if she could be first.  The teacher said
	no, because a boy had to be the farmer!

Perhaps because the traditional version of `The Farmer in the Dell' goes:
	~...The farmer takes a wife.~

and the teacher wasn't prepared to change that.  (I don't disagree with
you, but merely pointing out how the teacher may have overlooked the
sexism of choosing the boy to be the farmer).