I think that perhaps a better way of putting it is that Berkley is ultraliberal. In fact, I'd say that it qualifies as being three sigma from the norm. But the womens' comments still puzzle me- if there are parents getting wildly upset over teachers showing that women can be things other than the traditional role, you must have been in a place that was about three sigma from the norm in the other direction.

(Sorry, I just realized I was using mathspeak. Three sigma means at the very outer edge of probability- it's a statistical thing. Something that is more than three standard deviations away from the norm has less than a 0.01% chance of happening. I'll stop the math lecture now.)