Women's Discussion Forum - Why no male equivalent?

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01 Sep 2019, 11:37 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I feel we should stop making everything about gender.


:hail: All hail!


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01 Sep 2019, 12:13 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I feel we should stop making everything about gender.


Making a joke: Well, you would say that because you are a …. oh, heck, I can't say.

Meandering thoughts: What's odd to me is that there is gender - it's a spectrum like most everything (I want to read more about the cultures that recognize multiple genders "non binary" - no time for an additional interest) and many ASD folks like to find patterns and categorize, which could lend itself to stereotypes and yet ASDs can be unassuming less likely to stereotype... Ho, hum.

Joking again: I'd like to discuss on the Men's Discussion Forum how they feel about the peer pressure to be "male" and what that means and why. (Seriously though, I am sick of seeing the "manly" men at work tease the less "manly" men. The "womanly" women just politely leave me out: no in-the-face teasing.)

Darn, I just said a whole lot about gender. I like the full spectrum ----- what's troublesome is the social norms and pressures: between and *within* categories of gender... Perhaps that is what you were implying.



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01 Sep 2019, 1:19 pm

It's not gonna happen. This site doesn't get maintained anymore, it's just going to do whatever the cyber equivalent of rusting is.



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01 Sep 2019, 1:56 pm

I am of the Wolfman Gender :P



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01 Sep 2019, 2:07 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I am of the Wolfman Gender :P


With those glasses (referring to profile picture), I can see that.In case clarification is required: It's not that I am using those glasses to see, it's that those glasses would be indicative of that gender category: Wolfman. In case further clarification is required: the intent is friendly sarcasm.



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02 Sep 2019, 8:12 am

Ideally on this site, women would have their own secure safe place to vent, locked to men; and men would have their own, safe place to vent locked to women. There are enough other topic areas in which the two can can interact.



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02 Sep 2019, 9:03 am

red_doghubb wrote:
Ideally on this site, women would have their own secure safe place to vent, locked to men; and men would have their own, safe place to vent locked to women. There are enough other topic areas in which the two can can interact.
They had a mens forum many many years ago and few males used it and the ones that did just post smut.its not likely they will ever bring it back


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02 Sep 2019, 9:06 am

vermontsavant wrote:
red_doghubb wrote:
Ideally on this site, women would have their own secure safe place to vent, locked to men; and men would have their own, safe place to vent locked to women. There are enough other topic areas in which the two can can interact.
They had a mens forum many many years ago and few males used it and the ones that did just post smut.its not likely they will ever bring it back



Let them post whatever they want (that doesn't violate whatever applicable rules). Either that or level the field and eliminate the woman's forum and make it a "sticky".



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02 Sep 2019, 11:56 am

red_doghubb wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
red_doghubb wrote:
Ideally on this site, women would have their own secure safe place to vent, locked to men; and men would have their own, safe place to vent locked to women. There are enough other topic areas in which the two can can interact.
They had a mens forum many many years ago and few males used it and the ones that did just post smut.its not likely they will ever bring it back



Let them post whatever they want (that doesn't violate whatever applicable rules). Either that or level the field and eliminate the woman's forum and make it a "sticky".


Not gonna happen. That would require effort.



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06 Sep 2019, 6:20 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I feel we should stop making everything about gender.


This.

We are all sick of it, man and woman.