Patriarchy ended in 1965 George Jonas, National Post Published: Saturday, February 24, 2007 There's an old Jewish prayer: "Thank you, Lord, for not making me a woman." My father used to continue it by saying "because then I'd have to lie between silk sheets until noon, instead of being able to stagger out of bed at the crack of dawn to open up the butcher shop." I'm not sure what made Father pick butcher shops at dawn to symbolize masculine duties -- he was a musician in his youth, a private banker in his prime and was never near...