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Originally posted by Bob BiterHowever, as I've mentioned before (and wasn't quoted on in your counter-points), the male/female ratio is stacked heavily in our favor. This means that the potentiality for any female response on male centered threads is substantially smaller than the opposite case. Even if women posted to a thread males deem "private" or "embarrassing," at least they are not physically facing each other. There's a lot to be said for the anonymity provided by the Internet.
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I've only been here for a little while, but I have the feeling that the male/female ratio that everyone feels is overwhelmingly in favor of males is wrong. Sure, the majority of posters to the TB are probably male. But in the forums that actually count I see more posts from women and of the regular posters I think it's pretty evenly split between m/f.
And as for annonymity, people from TFP seem to meet up regularly, so there's a chance that you will indeed meet face to face. They get to know each other well, and really even their online self/reputation is important to them, so the internet's not really as anonymous as all that.
If you think that it's sufficient to put "(replies from men only)" in the thread title, then the same could be said for women. You wouldn't need a separate lounge, just put "(replies from women only)."
Frankly, I think it should be both or nothing. This way seems to intimate the idea that men are less private and that manhood isn't as big a part of being a man as womanhood is for a woman.
Anyways, no offense taken.