I have only had good experiences with female oriented forms, so I immediately signed up when I found this one - I found it by accident when goggling something else.

Lets face it, we live in a world where 90% of laundry detergent commercials feature women, and 95% of sport-related commercials feature men. I don't think that men really relate to that kind of life experience, or even think about it. I don't think they understand that they get to be default gender, and we get to be represented as the "token chick" in most things. Or how men's sports/physical activities are held in much higher esteem. You might think that kind of thing dosen't matter when asking a question about internal hub shifters, but that attitude does come out in subtle ways.

In a form about physical activity, it's nice to have a like-minded, judgment-free group of people to talk to. I would much rather ask questions here than bikeforms, though I do do enjoy lurking there and reading back-post of interest.

I don't like to think of myself as either "girly-girl" or "practical" (as disturbing as it is to make those two options opposites); because I'm a quite a mix of both.

It's a really nice community here.