bisexual cables!

Amir came to me yesterday looking for a connector which he later told me was one of the SMA series. It not only had two female ends but one side had a male section inside! I told him it's Canada and you should expect something like this. But when I think of it, that's quite something. Have all of these recent scandals confused us engineers too? Maybe some one should explain to us that cables ... are well different, and don't need to come in all possible ... combinations!