Originally posted by spokes
good!! if they can't handle a little talk about menstruation, maternity jerseys and the unending search for a good bra, then who needs 'em?
I have online acquaintances on other boards, women, who just don't get the female bonding thing... I think they've been fed a little too much equality at all costs talk. If they see no need or have no desire for a women's forum, or women's camps or whatever, fine for them but I choose otherwise Both are good, mixed company and non mixed, but for different reasons.

I was recently invited to join an women's mtb forum that is a subsection of a regional bbs. First, there was no traffic or content, and more importanly, for every gal's post to the women's forum there were 10 from men. For me that wasn't very conducive to sticking around, I get enought man-talk elsewhere. And when I tried to gently explain that perhaps they should butt out of the women's forum, that maybe more of the women would participate, they just didn't get it. Hmm, maybe I should post a hard core/graphic chafing question to run them off.

From seeing that and two other women's mtb forums that have zero traffic ( one post a week if that) I can honesltly say you can build it, but you can't make them come. Just by it's existence doesn't make a forum worth going to, there has to be something going on, it has to be alive so to speak.

so, ride on gals

I.