A majority of the boys who read this fable preferred solutions based on rights : "The porcupine has to go; It s the mole's house" or "Send the porcupine out, since he was the last one there"), whereas most girls preferred mutually agreeable solutions ("Wrap the porcupine in a towel" or "The both of them should try to get together and make the hole bigger"). A fair number of children proposed both kinds of solutions, however, and many were able to switch orientation when asked if there was another way of solving the problem. Even if the two sexes set different priorities, both were capable of following alternative lines of reasoning. This seems to be true to such a degree that many of Gilligan's colleagues have begun to question her dichotomy between male and female moral orientations.