...on the other hand - KIPLING is deliberately instructing a SON - because it is a MAN TO SON poem - and this shouldn't be destroyed by POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ( MR ICKE has a whole chapter upon the idiocies of that number)...

So let me just say this - if KIPLING had supplied that poem in 2010...we shouldn't slate it and railroad it - because it is 'sexist'...we should simply publish the alternative version in the media,for a laugh but also in all seriousness - as a COMPLIMENTARY VERSION to the original text and to give the last line a certain twist.

If YOU can do all of the things - as stated in the poem:

"And - which is more - you'll be a Woman, my daughter!"