GuitarBizarre

Try hanging out on an IRC channel full of lesbians, gays, straights, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, nonsexuals, and transgender lesbians.

Then tell them that you really can't be bothered keeping track of everyones preferred pronouns, and that unless they happen to be a particularly memorable person, they'll be referred to as 'he' for simplicity.

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MoonlitSunshine

Just quote Rule 30. Chances are most of em are hes anyway.

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"I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?"

- Arthur Dent

GuitarBizarre

Actually 46% of the internet is now female.

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MoonlitSunshine

See, that's a skewed statistic. 46% of the internet is female... provided you stay within the bounds of popular sites and social networking. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter etc. are massively skewing the stats towards equality. If you stray outside the most popular areas, into say, IRC, I'd be willing to bet there are just as few girls as always.

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"I found it eventually, at the bottom of a locker in a disused laboratory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard". Ever thought of going into Advertising?"

- Arthur Dent

GuitarBizarre

I doubt that actually, every IRC channel I'm in has a reasonable number of confirmed gurlz.

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MoonlitSunshine

yeah, but not almost 50%, surely? I have played a fair few online games, and the number doesn't even approach 1/4.

On top of that, I'm on the moderation team of one, and of the 6 "girls" (confirmed, with pictures) that were on the team, 4 of those turned out to be guys who'd just been a little more inventive with their cover stories.

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- Arthur Dent

Dotoar

Feminism is built around the proposition that men are pigs and that women are equal to men.

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Sansa Stark

Umm no
Radical feminism doesn't equal all feminism

GuitarBizarre

Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet

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Dotoar

I wondered wether or not I should emphasize the irony with an apt smiley, but of course I wasn't serious. In fact, I nicked it off another entry.

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