Women's Forum - Are private forums necessary?

[maoman]

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Alien]

Men would be surprised by where the same topic is going in the women's forum. Definitely quite a different take.

Don't you have anything better to do today, Maoman?

[sandman]

And men would be surprised by where the same topic is going in the women's forum. Definately quite a different take.

Wrong. Men don't give a flying fuck about it. Why should we? We can't see it and have no knowledge about it other than what I suppose you assume we think of as "tantalizing snippets" from you. "Ha ha ha, we're all talking about stuff and YOU can't!" Cliquey and elitist, and when you include that with taunting the other Forumosa members, disgusting.

[Loretta]

So why is there a women only section anyway? And how do you prove you are a woman when you apply to join? Is there also a white's only section? A place for Americans to bitch about us Brits without being put right? Or vice versa?

Is there a gay forum so that QM and others don't have to put up with the predominantly hetero tone of the place? I rather hope not. I like having the guy being part of normal society, without having to hide in his own little forum somewhere.

I'm rather surprised that here we are, in a bit of cyberspace that is supposed to reflect the world we live in, a place inhabited by the likes of Hartzell and his campaigns for equal rights, a place where a good many of us trumpet the superiority of our 'more equal' society over that of Taiwan, and yet we discriminate against some of our members on the grounds of the chromosomes they happened to inherit.

If 'the girls' want a place of their own then they can go and create one somewhere else. I say there should be one forumosa for all, and it becomes whatever we make of it by our combined efforts. The only private forum I can see a need for is the mods and/or administrators. Everyone else can create their clubs, cliques, secret societies etc away from forumosa - if they really must have them.

[sandman]

The women's forum was set up before a decision was made not to have any further elitist cliques, so it was allowed to stand. I don't really care if the women want their own forum, except when its members salt the normal boards with references to "we're talking about over there." Its tacky.
After all, me and Maoman don't make references here to the people we discuss in our secret forum.

[almas john]

Seems a bit strange that women on Forumosa feel the need to have their own private forum. Apart from the principle, I guess it doesn't really matter seeing as most men have absolutely no interest in what women talk about with each other.

If pushed to guess as to the discussion in the secret forum, I would think it would be a mixture of practical stuff about health, sex, food, and shopping, some bitching about men, and realtionship stuff.

I'll take a stab in the dark.

Women's Forum

Summer salad recipes
Waxing legs
Buying clothes for the normal-sized woman
Yeast infections (part 4)
A month late!

Tomas - stud or not?
Why are men such bastards?
Ohh, that Almas is a bit of alright
Does my boyfriend really love me?
Forumosa "Man-beast" poll

[Loretta]

After all, me and Maoman don't make references here to the people we discuss in our secret forum.

That's because you understand the meaning of the word 'secret'. Girls, it means that you don't tell the people who aren't in on your little chats what you talk about.

Anyway, I have a secret fo my own to share. I've decided to stop trying to play the studmuffin game and admit that I'm just not up to it. We all have our feminine sides, and I want to get in touch with mine. From now on I want you all to call me Loretta, and to support my right to have babies. It's my right as a man to be a woman.

There's a woman inside, crying to be let out, and I for one don't believe in repressing women or denying them the right to be heard. I am a woman in a (damnably attractive) man's body and it's killing me.

Please please let me into the women's forum so that I can talk about this away from prying unsympathetic male eyes.

SB

[cranky laowai]

From now on I want you all to call me Loretta, and to support my right to have babies. It's my right as a man to be a woman.

I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Kuomintang's or the Republicans' or the French's, but that he can have the right to have babies.

[QuietMountain]

Seems a bit strange that women on Forumosa feel the need to have their own private forum. Apart from the principle, I guess it doesn't really matter seeing as most men have absolutely no interest in what women talk about with each other.

When I first started to read this part of the "broken thread" I was a bit miffed that the women were allowed a secret, "no-where-to-be-found-under-the-forum-listing" forum. My annoyance was not because I thought they didn't deserve their own forum. It was more because we were denied the right to create a LGBT forum (one that we weren't even asking to be "secret") because forums were deemed be topic related and not group related.

However, since it was created (allegedly) before the decision to make new forums topic based only, I won't complain... too much. However, I do think it is odd that, while participation in this Women's forum is apparently limited to people who can prove they don't have a penis, you can't even find it in the forum list. How do women even find out about it? :?:

Does one female poster approach another suspected female poster and say,"PSST... are you a women?"

"Why, yes! Why do you ask."

"Can you prove it?"

"Here... " (opening her pants) hock:

"Good... don't tell any of those male-type creatures, but there is an exclusive 'women's only forum'. Follow me."

If pushed to guess as to the discussion in the secret forum, I would think it would be a mixture of practical stuff about health, sex, food, and shopping, some bitching about men, and realtionship stuff.

I think you missed the "Is my boyfriend really gay?" thread. I think that one would be very popular in Taiwan with all the alleged "metrosexuals" running around.

[Big Fluffy Matthew]

Women's forum is apparently limited to people who can prove they don't have a penis

I fit those entry requirements, maybe I should apply after all

you can't even find it in the forum list. How do women even find out about it?

If you click on the 'Groups' link at the top, you can find it in there, the groups that someone is in is also listed in the panel under their avatar.