After I wrote that our boys drive my dumpy '92 Saab, parents emailed saying they felt they needed to provide their girls with cars that were less likely to break down on a dark street.
That is why many of the actresses who have won Oscars in the 1980s and 1990s to date were dumpy (Kathy Bates), tiny (Holly Hunter), cosy (Frances McDormand) or downright plain (Cissy Spacek and Sally Field).