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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
I post there! Not as frequently or as verbose as I do here, though.
There's more of a sense of acceptance and community in the Ladies' Lounge. I feel more ready to open up and share, less inclined to back away from a topic because people might notice if I don't respond.
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Yes, and I'm always very happy when you post there!
And I do understand the difference in tone in the Ladies' Lounge definitely. But even in the LL, we don't have a lot of political threads getting started... and I just wonder sometimes, are TFP women not that interested in politics, in general? I don't believe that's true (I can name several of you off the top of my head whom I KNOW are into politics!)... but why aren't the women's voices louder around here?
I used to be deathly afraid of Politics, seriously. I hated going in there. It was one of the reasons I never wanted to be a mod, for several years... that requirement to "be okay with the Politics forum." But then this whole campaign season got fired up, and hell, I was head over heels in that forum before I knew it. It was great. There was no other place to talk about the all-important election... and I wanted to know what all the other women thought, as well. The LL threads were great--so many of you spoke up. But there hasn't been a whole lot of participation in recent weeks, and I'm trying to figure out what's up.
So it's just a big question mark for me... lookin' for answers here, not just about why you don't feel comfortable in the Politics forum, but what suggestions you have for how we can change it. Not how the mods can change it, not how the guys already posting there can change it (though of course that always helps)--but how can we, as women, change the ethos?