A
man and his
son are driving in a
car one day, when they get into a fatal
accident. The man is killed instantly. The boy is knocked unconscious, but he is still alive. He is rushed to
hospital, and will need immediate
surgery. The doctor enters the
emergency room, looks at the boy, and says...
"I can't operate on this boy, he is my son."
So, the question is,
how is this possible? The answer is simple:
the doctor is the boy's mother. This
riddle has been told for a long time, to illustrate how common
gender stereotypes are in our society. What's fun, is to tell this to
closet feminists like my mother or sister, and watch them fail to get past the
stereotype of thinking "doctor" implies "man".