While gasoline may be a common home remedy, it is not applied inside a home, and certainly not inside a small kitchen. If she had dragged a lawnchair outside and soaked his head we would not be having this discussion.
I don't question the efficacy of the treatment - maybe gasoline works just fine. But I am wondering if this would not have been avoided if there had been a man in the house. I'm not kidding, hear me out. I know I have become intimately familiar with how volatile gasoline can be through a number of thankfully harmless incidents. That has given me great respect for it, and all of those incidents are simply not things that most girls or young women would go through.
The first one I recall was as a boy scout when someone soaked the logs in a big bonfire in gasoline before lighting them. The gas fumes had predictably crept low along the ground in every direction from the logs. When lit, a ring of fire expanded out from the center of the fire, consuming the vapors that were low to the ground. We all just instictively jumped up when we saw this happen and noone was hurt. The flamefront literally passed under us that quickly.
The second time I was stripping some paint with an electric drill, a wire brush attachment, and gasoline. Why? I don't know, but I was, and it worked pretty well. At one time in a fit of idle curiousity I stuck the wire attachment on the end of the electric drill into the bucket of gasoline and truned the drill on. Instantly the gas all caught fire and I singed my hand and face. No big deal, but gee, I don't think I'll be that stupid again.
So maybe being a a boy and doing lots of smaller stupid things while growing up helps you avoid doing the really biug stupid things as an adult.