Yeah, I think you're right. It's like when you ask it, "which weighs more, 10 pounds of feathers or 100 pounds of rocks", and it's like, "obviously they both weigh the same, I've heard this one".

There are totally some political correctness effects in LLMs. Like, the last part about "along with a small lecture about gender biases" totally tracks. But the riddle switcheroo itself isn't showing much.