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What Gender Are Our Forum Members?
- Thread starter Bonnie2001
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I have never had a problem with telling the truth about my age. Even though most people think I'm lying 
I'm a 52 baby. Which will make me 65 in October. One year from retirement age for me
I'm a 52 baby. Which will make me 65 in October. One year from retirement age for me
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
Oh I just seen your age in your last post James.
Terre
Renowned
*snicker*Geeze, such a child.
A comment you made has me wondering if you are the 71-80. (My mind tends to analyze everything.)
eclark1894
Visionary
I'm closer to the end, than the beginning. But just like a video game, I get another life.
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
Well it looks like the men are. They just went into the lead, 25/23! Come on girls, I just know we are in the majority, so get voting asap!!
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
I believe that's called the "more years behind me than ahead of me" syndrome.
eclark1894
Visionary
Yes.
Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
It's nice to know, especially when on forums lots of people don't post pictures of themselves in profiles and the usernames often don't give a clue either. I'm used to Facebook and social media where I know who I'm talking to. I don't think it's asking too much just for gender info on a forum, and is nice to know is all.
eclark1894
Visionary
Thanks Bonnie. I wasn't trying to shut down all the talk yesterday, but yeah, I do treat men and women differently. It's the way I was raised and no, I'm not changing. I'll probably be dead in another 20 years or so anyway, so everyone will just have to deal with it until then. That said though, I still try to treat both genders,(sorry, there's still only two) with equal respect. I was raised that way, too.
eclark1894
Visionary
Btw... I'm feeling a bit cantankerous today so... despite what you might have heard, unless someone has rewritten all my biology books, gender is not a social construct and it is fixed at birth. Okay, I'm getting off my old man soapbox now.
Sorry but I prefer to keep it mostly private the same with my age, as eclark has said people treat people differently when they are aware of their gender and age, personally I would prefer to be treated equally. I do feel that in a way it is expecting to much to ask forum members to disclose such things.
I don't have a big problem with it, though I really do understand your point.
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Some people like to remain as anonymous as possible online, which is fair -- and maybe even advisable. I don't know. There are reasons I'm up front with at least my name online.
And I do appreciate that some people here have let their guard down a wee bit and have shared moderately personal stuff about themselves.
Let's be honest...that's kind of a scary thing to do online. After all there are some people who use info like age and gender to "size up the competition" or dismiss others in the online art world.
I've seen this on other forums ...where some insecure people judge the young people as "inexperienced and ignorant" and other insecure people judge the older people as "out of touch and irrelevant"... and some people choose to judge/prejudge against this gender or that gender or another gender... which all in all is just sad, but kind of a reflection of human nature.
*shrug* What are ya gonna do? Humans be humans.
And I do appreciate that some people here have let their guard down a wee bit and have shared moderately personal stuff about themselves.
Let's be honest...that's kind of a scary thing to do online. After all there are some people who use info like age and gender to "size up the competition" or dismiss others in the online art world.
I've seen this on other forums ...where some insecure people judge the young people as "inexperienced and ignorant" and other insecure people judge the older people as "out of touch and irrelevant"... and some people choose to judge/prejudge against this gender or that gender or another gender... which all in all is just sad, but kind of a reflection of human nature.
*shrug* What are ya gonna do? Humans be humans.
eclark1894
Visionary
I prefer to be treated as if you were in the same room with me. Online communication is convenient, but it's impersonal. I'm not going to treat my 80 year old grandmother the same as I would my 20 year old best bud. So no, I won't treat them equally. They're not, in my view. But I will give them equal respect. Honestly, I fail to see a problem with that.
I might stand up to give my seat on a bus to a pregnant woman, but not to a young man on his way to play a pick up game of basketball. I might if he had just finished playing and looked like he was about to fall down, though.
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Bonnie2001
Extraordinary
I understand what you mean. But I think it's a bit one sided when some members reveal their gender at least, and others don't. I think that becomes one-sided with some people being more open than others. Much as some (lots really) of people dislike Facebook, at the end of the day everyones identity is visible there and nobody there has an advantage over anyone else. Which I like, really. The weirdos are easier to spot on social media sites, which is probably why they are now more popular than forums.