I'm serious. I expected more in a place so near the Bay Area, the most liberal city in America, San Francisco, that I would not be kind of ahead of my time but somehow agrarian culture, no matter how high end does seem to breed a kind of conservatism, how could it not when it resembles feudal wealth, with busy little foreigners living in tents doing all the work, as the serfs of yesteryear, days bygone in another land or not, bearing a resemblance perhaps to the South, well, at least they do get paid and can't be beaten physically, at least not in public but I digress my ideas, more than a few of them, from my female vocal cords, and feminine visage and curves that fill out my dress and full head of hair which is becoming increasingly rare in men my age still, here. What I said, suggested, noticed, presented was only heard or appreciated when it was later said suggested or presented by a male, usually about six at least months later in the endless chatter of meetings and chance discoveries And I know this is not the place for me where only a male voice where only a male package between one's legs a very primitive way of determining what gets heard, a way that resembles that of dogs who sniff each other and not humans who have frontal cortexes and high order thinking had what I said come from the less shapely, thinner lips of a testosterone laden individual I think in this place they would have been heard and absorbed long ago