Maayan, I agree, people go way too far with this all, over the place, and a balance is necessary. However, reality is reality, and it probably was time to get off that baseball team. Water is still wet, no matter what we think about it. After age 10, you were physically and psychically at risk, playing hardball with them. Have you been beaned by a hardball? Have you been shoved out of a dugout by raw male pre-legal feeling, when they wanted to talk among themselves? You seem to have turned out all right, right? It wasn't the end of the world. Nobody's saying you can't be a lawyer! (Your chances of being a lawyer are better than your chances of being a mother, but never mind.)

However, maybe you should have stayed until age 11. You are awfully innocent. I don't know if this is bad or good. I judge by RESULTS. Are you married? Doing the job? Kids? Show me results. Results are what counts. Are your parents grandparents? Neal Pollack, are you listening? Do you want grandchildren, Neal? Or do you want to sit around and sigh about not having them, like everybody else? The sighing about this, nationwide, could power a windfarm to light a city. Sigh, sigh, sigh. The hell with ludicrous, badly-drawn, helmeted squirrels, and popular culture in general. You pay money for this stuff?