Yet I am positive that I am judged on the criteria of appearance and income. Which is another reason to love the internet… I could get another avatar and become gender-neutral again. Damn your eyes, DNT!!

I also agree that women in Western culture are under intense pressure to look good, and few women I have known actually feel good about their appearance, even when they look quite attractive to me, and that’s a shame. Men are not under the same kind of pressure in that area. However, I think that in our society, men are judged very much according to how much money they have. If someone says, “He’s a successful —— (whatever),” what do you think that means? Almost inevitably, it means he’s got a lot of money. When I was a divorced doctoral student, I was tall, very fit, reasonably attractive, bright, a decent guitar player and singer, and could cook a woman a fine dinner (Mexican, Italian, Chinese, American, or ethnic East European, her choice) before serenading her with romantic ballads, but yet I had lots of trouble getting dates, because I drove an old beat-up truck, and I couldn’t afford to take women out to expensive restaurants and such. My point is that sexism is not the oppression of men by women; it is the oppression of men and women by a system and a heritage that confines both genders into stereotyped roles.

She is very strong and physically fit for her age. I would like to see each of us try to do what she just did. It might even be funny to watch us struggle to get to the roof.

So the only reason the poster would find the sign to be inaccurate would be if he were considering a stereotyped woman, one whose frame is so feeble as to barely be able to support her unreasonably large breasts. So blueJade, fret not. Some of us men out here appreciate “real wimmen.”

“You gonna get pumped!”