News.com.com reports that George W. Bush has been chosen to be on Apple's board of directors. Apple has a press release with more information. According to the press release, 'George brings an incredible wealth of pretzels and blind determination to Apple from having helped run the largest first-world capital punishment system in the world -- the Texas state government' and 'The shareholder voting came down to either him or Al Gore. Gore won on votes, but the board of directors interpreted the vote in such a way that Bush ended up receiving the spot.' The inventor of 'Shock and Awe' should be a valuable asset to Apple.

I didn't mean to argue that people are not partially defined by biology - I'm sure they are - only that dominance/submission is not a gendered dichotomy, as your children demonstrate.

I'm not sure what you mean by your last paragraph. I can surely think of a number of books I read when I was younger that influenced my personality. Several of them fantasy novels, for instance, describing chivalrous knights and adventurers that I attempted to live up to for quite some time. And I don't think it's only "the other people" who are susceptible to ideas and role models in books. Reading books is experience, and it is experience more than biology, I would argue, that defines who we are.