Word Problem of the Week: The Most Sexist Word Problem Ever

D. H. Hill, who wrote the book containing the "Bad Pork" problem, loved to put his opinions into his math problems. Later in life he was a Confederate officer, which is not a fact I had realized when I wrote that entry.

His disapproval did not end at the moral standing of the northern American character. He was also, not surprisingly, unimpressed by the nascent Women's Liberation movement. Even so, the way he characterizes the delegates of the Third National Woman's Rights Convention is so sexist it just about took my breath away (because I was laughing so hard.)

It's number 70.