Male Domination of Discussion, part 2

Yiwah wrote:

The way people express their emotions (including anger) is very much culturally dependent.  Lack of stridency does not mean lack of anger.

That is very true. However I am trying to restrict my comments to the function of on line communication.

On line I think it is far harder to determine someone's culture from their posts than determining their gender.  Without the visual and vocal clues that we get in face to face conversation I find it very difficult to read culture into posts. Personally after someone self identifies their culture I find it a lot easier to find the hidden clues in their written posts that I missed when I did not have any visual, vocal or biographical clues.

Yiwah wrote:

The way people express their emotions (including anger) is very much culturally dependent.  Lack of stridency does not mean lack of anger.

at the risk of stating the obvious I'll add the way people emotionally respond to messages is culturally/personality dependant also....I have the sense people come to this site for a variety of different reasons and have a wide range of ideas what type of community they are actually going to get here.  The disparity between what culture people want and expect of this site and the reality of what all these different people end up actually being able to create together probably colours a lot of the tension that happens here.

kropotkin1951 you peaked my curiosity. Would it be possible to elaborate on why your partner doesn't have the inclination to participate?  While it's true we can't talk to the people that have run it might be interesting to take a greater interest in the motivation or desires of new members as they join.

First, I'm sorry, skdadl. It is definitely bad form to delete a post to which someone has replied. I don't want to raise the baiting, trapping and skinning thread again, but the gist of it was that, in my opinion, that thread (and the guns and ammo) were good examples of why more women don't participate here. For me, it was not just (nor mainly) the subject matter; people were trying to show how clever they were at the expense of others. It was belittling, disrespectful, and mean. And then I resorted to name-calling.

[color=green]Isn't it sexist to say women aren't into being or recieving belittling, disrespectful and mean behavior?
If that's not what you're saying, then why do guys want to perform or recieve belittling, disrespectful and mean behavior here?
Kropotkin, do you chat about politics to relax?   Personally I like to do traditional womens work like scrapping animal hides or washing dishes to relax.[/color]

[color=green]But Isn't calling scaping animal hides womens work sexist? If it's relaxing is it work?
Should I just call it a people play activity?[/color]

Are generalizations better than stereotypes? What divides the two?

Okay that seems like good distinguishing characteristics between the two terms

al-Qa'bong wrote:

Males in general are supposed to play on computers more than females,

Here you use the word 'general' and I'm thinking generalization than you follow it with the word 'supposed' and I'm thinking my sense of which of the two types of statements you are making is a little blurry.

But forget about all that and let's assume that play is the key word.

Perhaps the question for the thread should be why do males perfer to play

more on computers rather than use it for other kinds of purposes? 

Assuming this general gender divide exists within the babble community in terms of the desired purpose/needs a site such this is to fullfill is it possible to fascillitate the needs of both sides of this divide?

Why do males like to play electronically so much?