More-worldly folks, those with larger & 'higher' levels of social experience, tend to learn not to express the obvious, when it may (oops) be unwelcome.

When I was a kid, my small taste of it was ... "(smile) You look like Paul Newman". When I was little, I kinda liked the famous actor. When people wanted to interact with their perception of my resemblance to him (instead of "me"), I came to resent the guy, a bit.

At our country general store, a nice girl works the counter, stocks shelves. She is very tall, I will say surely in excess of 6 and a half feet, very possibly pushing or actually, 7 feet. And she is massively and powerfully built.

The store is actually a 'tourist attraction', very quiant & delightful to visitors. The post office is in one corner, so we go in the store often. It is also our gas station. Well ... the looks we see on visitors faces when they see her ... and my cringe when someone blurts out the obvious ... are all-too-familiar.

Of course, the truth is, she is quite startling. She is, indeed, quite an "anomaly". As, indeed, are female web developers. "Wow! A girl! [hey! shush you fool!]"

We hope that folks 'catch' themselves, before expressing their surprise at suddenly encountering a striking anomaly ... when that anomaly is another human person, with feelings, who gets sensitive to having something that seems irrelevant, made the 'center of attention'.

But it will still happen.