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Originally Posted by knox
actually... i was just talking to Jonathan and part of his job involves participating in a series of boards (mostly to do with social sciences, culture and adaptation nothing to do with music) and he said ALL of them have had recent discussions from women who were the minority and were being scared away by misogynist posting.
He told me the ratio is like 85% men (even tho those are SERIOUS boards) and their usual solution is to ban the woman that complains about it.
so I agree with the music guitar thing, but that's not just it.
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I'm making a bit of a feeble case, I know. I do know that women use the internet just as much for men; I feel that, socially, a lot of women tend to use it for more personal connections rather than 'strangers', as on forums. You'll usually find that the average women has 50-100 more facebook friends than the average man, for instance, and I've noticed that most women will have a number of concurrent dialogues on fb.
I know there are plenty of areas which a lot of men don't tend to touch - I was lurking on some lgbt/ feminist boards earlier, and they tend to be really heavily moderated (rather than just removing the odd vocal woman) - I think for a lot of 'mature' forummers, that sort of thing is really appealing.
I know your beef is a bit wider than just misogyny, but out of curiosity, how do you feel about people like myself - as a heterosexual, horny toad - picking up on this sort of thing in forums?