The last few days I've been active in a children's summer program building wooden huts. What struck me: I accompany a group of six boys and two girls. But the two girls demand more attention than the six boys together.

One girl always finds it too hot to do anything, though the weather is quite average for the time of the year, between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius. (She is a bit chubby.) As my task is to make sure everybody feels fine, I have to ask her quite often if she's still alright, for she keeps complaining about trivial things, though I'm not always sure whether she's serious or half-joking.

The other one is quite active and has a lot of ideas, but also is easily frustrated when not all her plans can be realized. She wanted to make a wooden coach, table, cupboard and bed in a hut of less than three square meters, and I had to be very clear that was a bit much. She was very sad not all her ideas were taken seriously, even though the name of the hut (Dinosaur, indeed a very good name) was her idea. Today she couldn't find her hammer and was very upset, even though we guaranteed she would either get it back tomorrow or get another hammer, for she was afraid her mom might need the hammer this afternoon.

Mind you: I really liked both these girls, that wasn't the problem. And the boys could be exhausting too, but that was always about everybody at once asking me a practical question while I was already thinking about another practical problem. So that was totally different. And I've done projects like these before, but then I didn't realize the impact of gynocentrism on society yet. So is it just me or is this a real tendency and not a coincidence?