VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1357635184|CONTENT|Graham beat me to it. &quot;Princess&quot; is a horrible word. Calls to mind &quot;Daddy&#039;s little princess&quot; and all that malarkey. And let&#039;s face it, it doesn&#039;t improve the lot of women in certain MidEast kingdoms where princesses are treated shamefully badly.

Tale I heard (possibly apocryphal but it&#039;s out there) of a young man from a certain large oil-exporting nation of the MidEast who brought all his mates round to his house where they got drunk and he gave them his younger sister to, er, &quot;play with&quot;. Such behaviour is considered commonplace.

Again, from the same nation, a colleague was sharing with me about his work experience there, where he lived with his wife and young family. When their boy started school his attitude changed to one where he was treating his mother with offhand contempt, because that was what he was picking up from his school environment.

Not that we lovely civilised Westerners can be complacent about this (*coughsteubenvillecough*). Any culture where little boys are taught that they are intrinsically superior is suspect. Dare I suggest that the culture of sports may be part of that mindset?|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|