Why a women's forum?

[shootingstar]

I I think if someone is obviously inappropriate, it's a different story. I see plenty of trolls here, because I get up early in the AM and see those posts before they have been removed. For all I know, they could be women trolls.

Lots of monotonous work for Jeff/Susan to look after -- I didn't know about the amount of trolls. And it certainly isn't going after a women's forum /because we're women, since I look after 2 of his blogs and have to clean up spam that trolls try to comment into this blogs --nearly daily. I think there are sufficient women trolls but maybe less than men.

I simply find it easier to chat up with women here compared to other forums. In face to face interactions, I don't spend hardly any time talking about make-up, fashion and men with, other women I know well.

So to me here, it mirrors the sort of topics and depth I would talk about with any face to face cycling woman friend. Except for some deeply personal stuff.

I would be interested in knowing the women who have dropped by and then drop out, what were their reasons for dropping out of TE? That might give a clue that would confirm about this forum's general spirit and dynamic. However I think the act of writing often, helps clarify matters for a person. So women who think just abit before they write IF they like to write often, are drawn to forums.


Men are different in a sense, that many don't talk about/mention their children much at all with other people outside their immediate family. I've noticed this at work --just less talk about their families. Even for guys who are attentive parents. Things have changed in the past few decades, but still I observe this even on the Internet.

My partner subscribes and participates occasionally in several Internet listservs and maybe 1-2 forums, but I suspect he sticks to cycling since he has cycling related business and has to keep himself non-personal.

The most personal side of him on the Internet....is the blogs that I manage for his business. I probably paved the way by introducing more personal details in my blog postings, which he then, realized he better loosen up abit in his blog postings or no one /hardly anyone will read our stuff. Who wants to read pure technical stuff all the time? We're not mechanics nor academics on cycling.