Oh, for crying out loud.

The phrase "it's not your fathers" is a play on an old advertising schtick from a quarter century ago, when Oldsmobile advertised its new Cutlass car with the line, "It's not your father's Oldsmobile". Although it did nothing for sales, the saying stuck and became commonplace.

It is hardly "lost in time" to reference a commonly used saying.

But there, there, no worries, we still have plenty of commonplace sayings surely to your liking, such as the phrase to describe entities that are universally beloved and valued ("motherhood and apple pie", no mention at all of fatherhood or man-caves), and the phrase to describe what little girls are made of ("everything nice", unlike boys who are made of yucky ingredients), and the degree to which a woman needs a man ("like a fish needs a bicycle").

Why not celebrate the variety? Some sayings salute female matters, some sayings salute male matters...