Reply To: Are sons more desirable than daughters?

Come on PBA, that’s a little unfair. There are certainly things in the Gemara that are said because they went with assumptions based on their society. The Gemara is still the embodiment of Torah Sheba’al Peh. But everyone agrees that some things int he Gemara were not recordings of Torah Sheba’al Peh but rather recordings of Stam Chachmah also (the obvious example is Refuos). I’m not going to comment on any particular case, but I strongly protest your assertion that there is no point to the Gemara if the Gemara took some sociological assumptions from their society. It would still be our Mesorah and our Torah Sheba’al Peh.