Little girls are taught that it's not polite not to let someone else take the biggest piece of cake and little boys are taught that if a little girl takes the biggest piece of cake she's not polite. They say things like, "he's a growing boy!" but if a little girl takes it, she's not ladylike, a pig.

Like all of the world's problems, this is clearly the mother's fault. ;)

We are not teaching our daughters to stand up and demand the piece of cake they are entitled to and we are not teaching our sons that girls are equally as entitled to big pieces of cake and it doesn't matter that they are smaller and it may appear that they don't need as much cake.