Weigh-in Week of January 8

[Trek420]

So, several women here post long deeply insightful views on Mr. Silver being here and the only posts he bothers to acknowledge are the ones where he received positive feedback.

yeah, you noticed that?

again, just speaking for myself.

I'm not wanting this to degenerate into a petition:

_ the guy stays
_ the guy goes

I was thinking, hoping maybe that this could be our usual humorous funny estrogen-laden insightful subtle polite empathetic discussion of:

* why is this board so great
* where do we want it to go?

I've been told not to think too much about what makes this board so great.

I used to think in part it was because some of us actually get to meet each other. But some of us only meet each other here.

Now I think it may be more that it's a "girl thang". But maybe we don't have that anymore and that's sad. Grieve...move on.

I look at it not so much as a guy/gal thing but it's also cultural to me.

It's like back in the 70's in San Francisco I was in a really nice bar/cafe (yes, I'm old).

This was before there was Ellen, or Will and Grace, or Olivia cycling tours, or Rosie and Donald or anything....you had the bar culture to meet and hang out in and that's it.

So anyway we're there and a few straght couples come in and the feeling is "hi, you're welcome here, but uhm uh why are you here? You have every other cafe. We've carved out this little community and have this. Why here?"

Well, like most women I'm much too busy to solve this issue in one thread or explain it all to any that "don't get it", I got things to do...Knott to talk to....groceries to get.....sometimes you either get it or don't.