Those in the European garden gnome community are a bunch of sexist, chauvanistic pigs! They're fighting the creation of a female garden gnome (the first in the one hundred years of garden gnome life) with everything they've got. Which isn't much.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-223098,00.html

Female garden gnomes. Next they'll be legalizing garden gnome abortions and giving female garden gnomes the vote. And we all know what will happen then... don't we?