I'm not discounting any of this, but why is it intimidating to post somewhere that is mostly men? Being a man, it is kind of hard for me to understand. I have played MMORPGs now for so long now that I don't even register a person's gender until they tell me. Most nicknames are so unisex that I wouldn't know one way or another. Lemme tell ya, even the name 'Gadget Girl' is no guarantee to someone that has hung out in online social areas for 10 years...
Are there still people that will say " Oh, you are a girl..." and discount you? I can't imagine that here. It is so foreign an idea that I can't really grasp it. I realize that there is a significant difference in how men and women react to each other socially (as is demonstrated by this string, actually), but I can't comprehend being wary of a messageboard full of women (and lemme tell ya, i've been ganged up on by them plenty
).
I always heard this kind of thing from Doreen, but I thought she was just being... well... Doreen.
Are we really that scary?
