So Disney is giving refunds to parents on a product that doesn't deliver as promised. Big deal.

For those of you who were born after 1967, the A.C. Gilbert company of New Haven, Connecticut perpetrated a bigger a hoax on America than Disney ever thought it could.

Under the guise of "Boys Today, Men Tomorrow", millions of Erector Sets were sold. Implying that size mattered, the bigger the project you  were able to erect, the more of a manly man you'd become.

Unfortunately for me, my projects just didn't measure up. I believed in quality, not quantity. My peers ridiculed my work, and laughed behind my back. They told stories to the young girls who soon would become nubile young women, that my projects were small and inconsequential.

This had a deleterious effect on my self esteem and transition through adolesence to manhood. This situation manifested itself though anxiety anytime I perform on a project. The Erector Set, just deflated my ability to complete just about any project.

Girls would laugh at my projects. It was humiliating. Just as I was about launch a lawsuit agaisnt the A.C. Gilbert company, they filed for bankruptcy protection.

Then a funny thing happened. I became more interested in how women were built, than what my erector set would build, and my life changed forever.

The moral of this story is: If it sounds to good to be true, it probably isn't.

and Size doesn't always matter, but girth helps.