On Headline News they had a feel-good human interest story about a teenage girl who had been accepted onto her school's baseball team. There she was, breaking down those boundaries, because boundaries are only ever erected by old fuddy-duddies who are interested in keeping one group or another down because they secretly fear them, not because they exist in nature. Right?

As I watched this girl playing in the dirt with the boys, it occurred to me that I've yet to see the story about the boy who proudly wins the county bake-off. There the boy stands in his apron, holding his spatula high in victory as he shows off the tallest, non-floppingest cake around. His parents beam and cheer to news crews about how he's breaking down the barriers, showing boys can cook and sew as good as any girl, and finally men's time has come.

You only see women trying to compete in a man's world, very rarely the other way around. This even extends to names. I've actually stood before someone with obvious breasts and high cheek bones who told me their name was "Pete." Working in a call center where we talk to the customers over chat, I'll see the names Billy or Johnnie and presume I'm talking to a guy, only to be corrected that it's Miss, not Mister, as though I'm an idiot to presume those names would belong to a guy.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that women have an inability to take an interest in anything for it's own sake, they only take an interest in it as a way of attracting a man. Maybe in Schopenhauer's time that was so, but these days a different approach is taken: women want to assume the masculine characteristics outright, from clothing to names to trying to throw the ball harder than Tom Glavine.

It's really about power. Man are perceived to have power. No one wants to be powerless. Everyone wants to "wear the pants," but they size them different for men and women, and not because they're trying to oppress anyone. Men and women are different, and much to my joy, some aspects of life are strong enough for a man, but made for a woman.