LPH, thank you for starting this thread, as usual, I am a bit late to the party.

I like the TE forum because I can ask a question and get a variety of good answers. The interactions are mostly professional and very helpful, it is a supportive community. It seems like most of the posters here are self confident women who can get along in the world pretty good. No matter what the level of confidence is we often have areas of significant weakness and it is in those areas that our online sisters help us out the most.

I feel safe here, not because it's mostly all women but because no question is too dumb and all questions get respectfuly treated. I'm a straight single woman and in real life I have about an equal mix of men and women friends. Each perspective fills a different role or need. I live in a male dominated profession and hold my own just fine.

In my experience most women will be harder on women than men will and that's what I really like most about this forum, you are all very supportive but we know what females can accomplish so we hold our feet to the fire and expect the best we can offer. That's real sisterhood, to me anyway. I couldn't let this thread go by without throwing in my own 2 cents.