Oh i see... thank you for that.. it's a new term for meI'm pretty sure that the whole
meant that father was the coward, and that mom was the one with the pants, meaning the "manly" one (pants not skirt), here in the meaning of "manly" as "courageous".
In other words, that poster didn't mean it was mother's fault, but father, the sentence was just bit unclear if you weren't reading carefully.