Joe,

"..our task is to interpret the world, not to change it..."

You can't help yourself can you....be nice if you once engaged without sarcastic overtones and that nice little smiley face at the end to add to the insult.

You could look out the back of course.

That's where you'll find them, in the kitchen, barefoot & pregnant, just as god & nature designed.

Unlike lionesses, our females have never been much good at catching a feed, only cooking it.

I do reckon it's like that Monty Python to me. I come here for a good argument. Sometimes even when I agree with anti, I play devil's advocate because he really gives a good argument. Better than the people I actually disagree with. I wish I disagreed with you and pelican more too actually.

I think I'm like you in that 'er indoors just wont argue with me and isn't a feminist and isn't political at all so I come here. Trouble is lately here people are arguing, inarticulately and humourlessly, about stuff I'm not really bothered about.

I went to a feminist site, but they just censor stuff and reject posts because they don't agree with you. No matter how politely you put it, they just delete anything at all challenging. I couldn't believe that actually, when they all had the chance to gang up on me, that they wouldn't even have any contradictory views on their site. Mazing. I really was super polite too, used Jewely's innocent questioning style technique on them.

I do have some great arguments with Indian posters on cricinfo though. No, not circinfo as one of the recent topics had links to, which I embarassingly misread. I couldn't conceive how arguments about circumcision would be on a cricket site! Then I re-read it just as I was about to post. Can you tell I'm bored yet?

Thank you, Hasbeen.

You are such a charmer.

Now why would women avoid OLO when there are men like you to interact with?

It beats me.

*So now I'm wondering what it is that attracts me to OLO. Perhaps the subject matter here is more male oriented...I like a good stoush on world affairs (political, social and such like).*

Well that could be a reason, Poirot. Good to see you back, btw.

I doubt if so many women are interested in things like world affairs.
Yet if you go to the Thermomix forum, thousands are posting their
latest recipee and what they cooked for dinner last night.

We have our share of females here, although its not always obvious.
Rhian and Oto are female, but once again, these are thinking females,
clearly not your Mrs Average, who is busy on Facebook, discussing
the kids or grandkids.

Ca va, Poirot,

:)

But seriously, why not try to change the world instead of just sitting back and lamenting it ? Form a Thesis Eleven faction within OLO ?

What if every male contributor on OLO made an effort to encourage, recruit, incite, provoke or trick ONE woman each to make a contribution ? It wouldn't have to be brilliant, judging by some of the blokes' contributions, including my own. I go to choir tonight (three-quarters women) so I'll scout around. What do you reckon ?

Cheers,

Joe