Just because you didn't see the poodles, that doesn't mean they weren't there.

O ye doubting Thomases of muffin-like principledness, wake up and smell the poodle piss!!!!!!! Before the commoners rub your turned-up society nose in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's just like the concept of vicarious participation in the "Democratic Party": Just because you don't see truly representative numbers of people-of-color or women in positions of real power, or achieving real socioeconomic or political power as a group, doesn't mean that someone doesn't assert that it's so.

Think about it.