Are posters here HAPPIER having few men in SS Forums?

[Beekissed]

I think that right there is the problem....most guys do not venture into the computer world to talk about things they do every day at home. Only us women seem to find that fascinating. Something to do with right brained, left brained, blah, blah, blah...

 

[MorelCabin]

The only time my DH gets on a computer is to check his work email, and to google the word *YAMAHA* LOL!

 

[lighthawk]

IMO men don't generally care to discuss what their plans, hopes, dreams are they get to it. That is probably why there are not a lot of male participants here. We think we know everything. If you think I'm wrong just try to tell me something I don't already know.
I came to this site through BYC when I decided I needed to learn about chickens. Hate to admit it but I needed help getting started.
I have been Pooh-Poohed a number of times on this site. No big deal I gave my best advice based on my knowledge and experience at the time.
No matter how much I think I know there is always someone who knows more. Conversley there is always someone who knows less. That is why I come here. To learn what I can and teach what I can.
I think more and more people are going to need guidance and how-to knowledge. Male and female.
Like the man said "We're all in this together".

ETA... Wow lot of posts while I was typing this. Wish I had a typing class in high school.

 

[Joel_BC]

I think we are getting a little off track here.
IMO men don't generally care to discuss what their plans, hopes, dreams are they get to it. That is probably why there are not a lot of male participants here. We think we know everything. If you think I'm wrong just try to tell me something I don't already know.

I realize you said this with a bit of tongue in cheek. But there are other sites on the web that I like because the guys there do exchange info. Useful technical info. We do ask questions, and pretty well everyobody is generous with information. Plus, it seems like all the guys have a good time at it.

That doesn't mean, at all, that the guys posting on the sites I'm referring to don't "get to it".

So at the point that we look at the question here seriously, I think it should be possible to figure out what we could do. And do it. And improve the SS forum (in terms of subjects guys are concerned with).

 

[~gd]

I rest my case. All we want is free beer, food and sax, according to many of the ladies here. Well I can do the first 2 as well as they can and for the last I am pretty well past it.~gd

http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/uploads/4407_sax_altomed.jpg


Aww, c'mon, ~gd. Give us a toot! TOOT TOOT reminds me of a little ditty that I picked up at VA Tech. Rooty toot toot. We are the girls of the Institute, we don't Smoke and we don't Chew, and we don't go out with the guys that do. Very popular right after the great commonweath of VA forced Gender intergration.

I'm sure you're still okay at #3.

Tell my doctor that. once a month I have to go in and 'Drop Pants' Lets just say that I will never play pro Baseball....

 

[hqueen13]

Ohh my other half posts on the shooter's forum that he's a part of quite a lot.... Here not so much, LOL.
Course the funniest thing about us is that he's the cook! He teases and says its because he doesn't want to eat macaroni and cheese every night! That's only partly true, though. Really. I just don't enjoy cooking, I don't know what it is but I don't find it fun. I know WHY we cook from scratch, I just don't find it fun.
But I clean like a fiend. And I LOVE projects. He, not so much. If I had better skills with the power tools that I would do more, but I am not so good, and am fairly small, so I don't have the weight/gravity advantage.

And I'm on here cause I love to read and talk! (I'm sure yall noticed that already though....)

 

[FarmerJamie]

It can be a hostile environment. I use a gender free name on here but once they figure out I am male it seems that I can't know S... anything about the female arts. Well this old Bachelor had to learn many of those the hard way in order to live in comfort. Way back in the dark ages both genders had to take one half school year in both Home Economics and in Wood Shop in order to graduate HS. On the other hand I had to take my case to the school board to get permission to take Typing since I might disrupt the Ladies that hopped to work in an office one day. So when do they teach 'keyboarding now?
I just trotted out the statists that showed that typed term papers got better grades then the same paper written in long hand even with a Fountain Pen.
I recently visited 3 big box office supply stores and not one of them had a simple bottle of ink. Times change, adapt or die! ~gd

Nicely said, sir. Way back when, I took typing with two of my buddies as a seniors in high school with a room full of sophomore girls. The teacher was a cool old dude who said "sit in the back, don't cause issues, and you'll get a 'B' no matter how bad you type". I took the course because I was headed to college, too.

I spent too many winter nights laying on a sheet of cardboard helping my dad "fix" what ever the latest issue was under the car or in the freezing rain working on one of my grandfather's tractors or other equipment. I can do the basics on my stuff around the house, but I know my limits. I'd rather spend my time gardening, raising animals, and canning. I know enough gear heads who can't cook and will trade work for a good meal. My wife appreciates the help around the house - there are some things I do better than her!

I do computer technology stuff in my career, so I'm comfortable being online now and again, but not to talk about what might be stereotypical "guy stuff" for some.

YMMV

 

[Leta]

I can't speak for men in general, or SS men in particular, because I'm a woman

but...

DH is into all this stuff at *least* as much as I am. He just is completely unswayed by the siren song of a message board. I think this is less because he is male and more because he is not that into the computer in general.

 

[luvinlife offthegrid]

My husband is the one who found me in the woods and brought me to the house we're in now. There's some filler story in between- I wasn't abducted! (Proofreading is a good thing). He has been ss on and off since he was a kid living here with no power and no running water. He also knows a LOT about renewable energy system design. He just doesn't like to do what I do on these forums- which involves talking to strangers on the internet.

 

[me&thegals]

DH is into all this stuff at *least* as much as I am. He just is completely unswayed by the siren song of a message board. I think this is less because he is male and more because he is not that into the computer in general.

Exactly.