That must have been rough!
Imagine people are nice to you when you help them carry their bags (when the "liberated" male walking with you doesn't), or fix their plumbing, or listen to their endless spiels about the government...but once they learn you planned to vote for someone with an R after his name...UNCLEAN! How ironic, the one guy who took a shower daily!
Imagine going out with women who talk almost nonstop except when you occassionally offer an observation, and who then LEAVE the table because you "didn't let them get a word out," even though you can then recite numerous quotations from their screeds, and when challenged they cannot repeat ONE thing you've supposedly said, even though you "didn't let them get a word out."
Wait a minute, there's nothing to imagine--that IS what living in Cambridge is like!