Stone is ancestral and male...

From a National Geographic article on Stonehenge, "In Malagasy culture the ancestors are revered with stone monuments, signifying the hardening of the bodies to bone and the enduring commemoration of death; wood, by contrast, which decays, is associated with transient life. Stone is ancestral and male, while wood,as Parker Pearson... put it, 'is soft and squishy, like women and babies.'" This makes me think a lot about my work, how it will last for millennia. I guess a lot of my work does say "ancestral and male"...! DISCUSS...