A popular quote says, âA woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.â While I can understand why this sentiment has developed, as a man, it bruises my ego to think that my biological gender should be so trivialized. On the other hand, as a senior citizen, I know that my ego will need to toughen up for all the blows it will receive over the coming years. The quote above was brought to mind by news of a rat experiment that took place in China where a team of scientists at the Naval Medical University in Shanghai tried to create a model to test the idea that a male rat could deliver babies.