Thanks for explaining it, Whopper. The moral of the tree story is that women are simultaneously both naive and manipulative. All I have to say is...how?
The other half of Western roots, the Greco-Roman, wasn't much better: Romans viewed women as property, while the Greeks, of course, viewed the only alternative to (for lack of a better word) Eurasian gender roles to be the reverse: Male slavery. (Remember the stories of the Amazons?)