AS women in relationships - rule or biased sample?

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Doing the Jay and Silent Bob thing and showing up at their doorsteps might be fun but its likely off limits.

With this kind of thing though I get the impression I'd make a terrible woman. My canned answer most of the time would be "I'm flattered, however you don't know me. Good bye" after which I have a feeling I'd just delete responses without reading.

first of all, it has been over five years (and > 30,000 members) since Tom_FL_MA updated the statistics. and he did not break it down into diagnosed vs. undiagnosed.

but i would take it to mean fewer women are getting diagnosed. there is discussion of this all the time.



where's the "hit person over the head with frying pan" emoticon?
or just insert your facepalm.

how is that helpful?



i haven't spent a lot of time in the women's forum because there is a slow turnaround for posts there. and there are gender related topics that come up in the general forum.

but i do often feel that discussions related to female specific issues are generally interrupted by a male saying their problems are worse, or being otherwise dismissive (see above). i am all for intelligent, respectful debate and discourse, and i appreciate the input of most males on these issues, but i feel about it the same way i feel about bullying on the forum (by bulling i mean accusing self-diagnosers of being fakes, NT relatives / significant others of aspies expressing negative opinions about asperger's, etc) which is this : by now, we have had enough.

i don't fault WP for this. in future i will probably find a women's forum to address those kinds of issues and avoid them here.

I said "may not" not "do not". There is a difference. Though technically speaking, just how would you know how guys treat each other when there are no girls around if you are a girl?

I haven't met you, so far all I know you might be invisible. (would explain how you could observe guys acting like there are no girls around)

On the internet about 3 out of 5 girls are actually girls so I'll count you as 3/5ths of a girl.


Agreed.

good point. i just know that sometimes groups of guys can act despicable when i am around, "forgetting" to speak respectfully about women. i will attribute this more to group dynamics than gender.



huh???

i am probably no more than 3/5 girl anyway, insofar as how my thought process works.



this is a good summarizing statement. it's probably true.

I've just seen it happen a few times that whenever the last female leaves a room and the guys are sure that she is out of earshot the tone or whatever you would call it of the room suddenly changes. Some groups of guys may be less careful.

Just an obscure joke. I make a lot of those, sometimes I can't resist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3/5_compromise

Why so serious?