Bel,

While I maintain my positions, in general I can't really disagree with yours. I'm not really sure why I spoke up here at all, except that the resolution to a specific problem looked like burying a more general one which several, mostly female, correspondents felt existed. My remarks necessarily concerned my personal experience, but I brought up that experience in order to address what seems to be a more a--similar--general one. I wouldn't have brought the topic up myself--I only learned of the thread because it was pointed out to me. But, while I don't see the point in insisting on carrying baggage, I do have an aversion to sweeping things back under the rug once they've come out from under it.