Also, they ruin the fun bits of Great Men doing Great Things. Because sometimes they didn't and sometimes they were just there at the right time, looking fabulous.

Then there are those nasty Marxist roots so much social and economic history has--if girl cooties are icky, Marxist cooties are much worse. You can pat the girls and tell them they're cute, after all. The Marxists just sneer and apply dialectic to you--what's a fella to do?