Thread: You gotta be kidding

Ladies Only!!

We have a forum here which is gender specific?? What fashion of insanity is this?? Where is the Gentlemen Only forum?? Let's get real people. If there are things which only women may partake in, there a certainly other things which only may be viewed or discussed or are only of interest to men.

Oh, forgive me, that's right, the poor little darlings are special and we big strong men need to treat them as special as they are.

That's funy, Bruce

Actually, I understand why there may be a need for something like this, so I am not complaining. But really - some men might also be embarrassed to discuss something in the open forum and may also deserve a more private place.

Anyway, before this I didn't think much but now I'm really curious what's happening behind the closed doors. I'm sure it's nothing extraordinary - like rash here and this there, what not - but we can't be sure, can we

Cheers
Ivo

dude, get over it. they usually find a way to get their own closet, no surprise they have their own section on a web forum.

I have to say that I'm not overly in favour of a closed off section of the forum - the spirit of the forum has always been openness and exchanging ideas freely. My understanding was that if you wanted a private conversation, you PMed someone

But I guess that this is the price of our own popularity - even when I joined, some 15 months ago, this was a much smaller community - a village, which has now grown to become a city - with all of its advantages and trappings. Soon it will be a metropolis, but hopefully, that day will not come too soon.

Anyhow, I can appreciate the difficulty of the mods/admins trying to manage something that is ever shifting and growing, so while I don't agree with the idea, I will respect their decision.

Mark

Originally Posted by Bruce

Oh, forgive me, that's right, the poor little darlings are special and we big strong men need to treat them as special as they are.

For what it's worth, I forgive you Bruce

It's a pity that your pith
Be confined to men only
And that your wit only sit
Where the ladies are lonely

But won't you consider
As you just said
That the ladies are special?
Did you not one wed?!

I think he's got a valid point. In an age of equality, i constantly notice that equality only works one way. Hold a door open for someone & you're lucky to get thanked! Men do occasionally make the odd smutty comment, but i thought that the guys here were largely well behaved? Maybe we can trial our own section? Even if we don't use it much, they won't know that!

I'm sure the ladies could care less if we had our own private men's only portion of the SRP site (or maybe I should say I doubt they'd have an issue with it).

I actually don't mind a women's only area on SRP. I'm here to exchange conversation with friends first and foremost about straight razor shaving and all it encompasses rather than have posts infused with salacious banter which would occur more frequently if women here didn't have a private area to discuss things of a female nature.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Chris L

I'm sure the ladies could care less if we had our own private men's only portion of the SRP site (or maybe I should say I doubt they'd have an issue with it).

I actually don't mind a women's only area on SRP. I'm here to exchange conversation with friends first and foremost about straight razor shaving and all it encompasses rather than have posts infused with salacious banter which would occur more frequently if women here didn't have a private area to discuss things of a female nature.

Chris L

+1 Though I have to admit I was very fond of this site being open and thoroughly masculine. I can see where the ladies would need a "powder room" to discuss things that are entirely feminine in nature without an audience, and we have enough women now that PMs would be far too restrictive compared to starting a thread.

Originally Posted by kljr

dude, get over it. they usually find a way to get their own closet, no surprise they have their own section on a web forum.

I think this should hit the nail on the head, for a change they have a closet while we have the run of the house!Thanks kljr!

It does seem to skip around one of the great features of this forum - the fact that everybody is very open. I'm not sure what having a secret society acheives other than to create barriers.
I am not saying I oppose the idea of a ladies only forum, I just feel it not wholly with the spirit of SRP to have a forum only available to specific members.
Private info can easily be shared via PM.

Now I just have to think what I would want to talk about in private with guys only!

It is summed up in one well known example.
Girl to girl - Does anybody want to go to the toilet?
Guy to guy - Oh, you go first I'll get the drinks in.