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Ann2011
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23 May 2013, 7:12 am

I notice that there is a Women's Discussion Forum, but not a Men's. Why is this? I'm wondering because I think men need a place to discuss their gender specific issues. It seems that this stuff is ending up in L&D, which might now more appropriately be called "Hate and Blaming."

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23 May 2013, 7:47 am

There used to be one and it was removed.

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23 May 2013, 7:50 am

Jono wrote:

There used to be one and it was removed.

Did it get too rowdy?

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23 May 2013, 7:53 am

Ann2011 wrote:

Jono wrote:

There used to be one and it was removed.

Did it get too rowdy?

I don't know. It was before I came onto the site.

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23 May 2013, 8:01 am

When it was removed... did anyone say "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS" ?

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23 May 2013, 8:48 am

There used to be one but it turned into a cesspool.

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23 May 2013, 9:40 am

It was a bit of a locker room. Alex removed it because the topics in it made it a carbon copy of the adult forum.

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23 May 2013, 10:04 am

Hm... it would be a good idea to the extent it would clean up L&D and the Adult Forum a bit. Besides, there are some legitimate topics that men would only want to discuss with other men, and it IS unfair that there is one for women but not one for men.

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23 May 2013, 12:37 pm

I actually created a forum specifically for male members here (well, outside of WP, of course). Didn't work out because it wasn't really needed after all by the male members. The irony is it attracted female members more than male members. :roll:

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23 May 2013, 6:51 pm

Shatbat wrote:

It is certainly unfair.

But the way I see it is that the women's forum is itself, more of a privilege than a right. We haven't really turned it into a cesspool as such, and most of the time, are quite well behaved in there.

If the guys were given a chance and screwed it up, considering it is a privilege and not a right - well then, is it still right to call it unfair?

Maybe if enough time passes and there are different members, they may think about trying it again? (and I hope they do!)

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23 May 2013, 7:18 pm

We don't need to seek refuge in our own forum, anyway.

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23 May 2013, 7:27 pm

MCalavera wrote:

I actually created a forum specifically for male members here (well, outside of WP, of course). Didn't work out because it wasn't really needed after all by the male members. The irony is it attracted female members more than male members. :roll:

Lesson learned: humans are nosy. :lol:

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23 May 2013, 11:53 pm

And noisy. Only around a handful of WP male members joined and were active. The rest of the male members who had been fighting for a forum for men were just noise.

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24 May 2013, 3:24 am

MCalavera wrote:

And noisy. Only around a handful of WP male members joined and were active. The rest of the male members who had been fighting for a forum for men were just noise.

Either that, or they were just too lazy to join an external site.

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24 May 2013, 6:07 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

There used to be one but it turned into a cesspool.

That's the problem with spas,
the idiots that think they are retirement homes!

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