Sounds like peer-group groupthink. I work in government and legislative staffers are (and I know this is a generalization) often serious climbers and careerists and thus, EXTREMELY image-conscious. DC's conservative white male-dominated atmosphere (and this attitude is also prevalent in the Dems, to a slightly lesser degree) is EXTREMELY IR-averse. Thus, ww are not too excited about wearing their interest (if they have any) in bm on their sleeve. But if I had a dollar for every girl who didn't "usually do this type of thing" that I had been with, I'd be taking everyone on a Caribbean cruise aboard the wwbm.com yacht that I had purchased with the proceeds.