Marian

Even girls often don't iron at college.

My daughter lives in an older dorm where plugging in an iron in your room blows the fuses. The power is only good enough for ironing in the laundry room down in the dungeons of the basement.

Although she would never have considered wearing wrinkled clothing in public at home, at college she does it all the time.

When I was in college, the power was so inadequate that you couldn't use a hair dryer, either. So we went out with wrinkled clothing and wet hair.

As for the questions for women:

1) Our clothes often don't have pockets. We have to put our stuff somewhere. And you probably take advantage of the stuff in our purses. When you cut yourself or get a headache at work, don't you go to the nearest woman for a Band-Aid or some Advil? Men don't carry that sort of stuff. We do.

3) Women's shoes are often designed to be worn only with certain types of clothing. The sandals a woman would wear to the beach, the ones she would wear to a business-casual office, and the ones she would wear to a party are three entirely different types of shoes. Also, a lot of our shoes hurt, a concept beyond male comprehension. If we bought them to wear with a particular outfit and they hurt, we may never wear them again unless we wear that outfit again. (If it's a prom dress, that would be never.)

5) We are judged by how we dress to a far greater extent than you are. (When is the last time that a man was criticized for dressing "too sexy" at a business-casual office?) You should be judged at least a little bit.