<p>Veggiedog:</p>
<p>What you are experiencing used to be the norm. I read with interest a post (by Kluge?) about the opening gap between male and female students in the UK. I know of one young woman who wanted to do a Ph.D. at London University and was told by the only prof with whom she could work that he refused to take her on because he felt that her mission in life was to be home for her husband (they came to the US so that she could pursue her studies). I remember the first cohort of female students at Yale and Princeton. I once a met a woman who, in her 70s, was still angry that she had been discriminated against at Harvard… </p>
<p>So you are victim of PCness, of PCNess that dates from several decades ago.<br>
Hang in there, though. It will get better in college.</p>