I agree 100%. But I have yet to see a woman without a committee. There is at least one, usually more, that knows how to hint, then retreat, suggest, then retreat, tell a negative tale, then retreat, until the woman has for all practical purposes made a decison and thinks it is her own. I know this because I have eavesdropped, shamelessly. And when you confront her with the conversation, she is totally unaware anything like that went on and will deny it vehemently. 
She's aware. She just thinks that by denying, you will beleive her and think that no such conversation ever takes place.
Sure, I have friends, but I keep a balance of male and female and never get so close that their thoughts become MINE. It's a matter of keeping your nose out of other people's business. I have 3 little girls with my husband and I'm co-authoring a true crime book on the side...I don't have the time to be a problem solver for friends in a committee and I refuse to let one of them solve mine either.