It gets boring not because lack of women but lack of different people. Just the same people post everyday the same comment. Like High school. Yawns.

I'd rather see OLO more welcoming to those who want discussion more than combat. I don't know how that can be achieved but I suspect that really is the issue. OLO can be unwelcoming to both men and women if they don't want to spend their time around personal squabbles.

Too many threads become heavily polarised (and I've been party to that at times) and drag on for hundred's of posts primarily consisting of personal attacks on others and a variety of insults against those holding contrary opinions and little genuine content.

I'm finding that trying to stay out of that stuff and still add worthwhile comment is becoming more bother than it's worth.

Mostly now I could not be bothered tying to take part in discussions where people I respect (or have some appreciation for) on both sides of debates spend their time exchanging insults with each other.

Some enjoy the fighting, Holly is quite open about that, others pretend they don't but get into it at every opportunity and some others seem to go with the flow. Others mostly try to stay to the sides but get dragged into it from time to time.

I've been trying to work out if it's OLO which has changed or if it's me. There has always been combat but I can't tell if it's got worse or not.

R0bert

Pericles:"To the Pomeranian, the height of the Lithuanian is hardly relevant, I would imagine."

Well no, but the challenge of balance remains for the little chap.

Pericles:"Fortunately, your pun worked."

It was independently derived, but I'm not sure if I can claim first utterance. Nonetheless, I like it and I'm glad it fell not on deaf ears.

As for the French, much as I would have preferred the correct adjectival form, the noun seemed to work better in the context of the audience Anglais.

Foxy, Sam sounds like my kinda chickybabe. Send 'er over.

If that is your aim, then perhaps OLO needs more common kind of
female topics. "Days of our Lives", "the Bold and the Beautiful",
or the latest gossip from New Idea. :)

In my experience anyhow, thinking women like say Pelican, are a
rare breed indeed. Plus she has a great sense of humour too !

Perhaps we'll have to try and clone Pelican :)

Dear Yabby,

I have met quite a few thinking women. I live with one. Her first husband was a very good-looking man but afraid of her intelligence. I am not so good looking but appreciate her mind. My daughter is intelligent and witty. She decided to go to an all-girl high school after going to a co-ed school since, according to her, boys were louder and monopolised classroom discourse. In my experience I have met many intelligent women. Maybe you have also but didn't listen to them.

My mother became infirm and had to go to a nursing home. She was labeled antisocial since she preferred to sit in her room and read rather than join the others in the common room to watch daytime TV. She had never liked that sort of thing before but was supposed to like it then.

You don't have to clone Pelican. If you are intelligent you might clone yourself.

[to the tune of Home on the Range.]

Oh, give me a clone,
A clone of my own,
With the Y chromosome turned to X.
And then this clone,
This clone of my own,
Will be of the opposite sex.

All women are not confined to "Days of our Lives", "the Bold and the Beautiful" and the latest gossip from "New Idea" any more than all men are absorbed in the footy, fishing and the local gin mill.

Current posts from Anti, Houellebecq a [mis used] nom de plume if there was ever one), the missus, Yabby make my case (with or without correct punctuation).

Foxy
wise word from my son "don't argue with an idiot, They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

RObert,
Nice try A+ for effort. I support your intent.