Reply #93: In fifth grade, one of my daughter's

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friends, for his class project, chose to design a skirt or a dress (I forget). That certainly made me wonder, although in other respects he seemed like a "typical" boy -- just a lot smarter than average. Anyway, a couple years later the hormones kicked in and . . . let's just put it this way. He'd rather get under a skirt than make one.

Very bright boys often don't fit in, or at least they're not one of the average guys, whether they're gay or straight.

My brother is another. Very bright, quite sensitive, open-minded, shy, and unmarried -- but no question-about-it, unambiguously straight.