often seen in the street without a hat

Here via oursin. This is sick. I've glanced at that book and decided it was an overdone joke. That stuff is pernicious. Why was it OK for me to be forced to read A Pattern of Islands and other such imperialist male ego crap when I was a kid, and if girls didn't do well it was our own fault, while now any book with a female character in it is not sufficiently inclusive for poor ickle boys?

Grrr.