But to Goldwater and Bozell it was the mainstreamers who were the true aliens.

Vernant, Detienne, and Vidal-Naquet all comment upon the exclusion of women as a founding principle of Athens. Loraux's contribution is to explore the psychological bases for the exclusions. She contends that misogyny is an over-facile notion. The suffering of women in the birth of children was simply outside male experience.

‘Gowan goes to Oxford a lot,’ the boy said. ‘He′s got a jelly there.’

Of course, most systems have some failure rate — incest does occur, because innate behaviors direct rather than dictate (chimps also have an occasional anti-incest failure).