roger wrote:Really, Osso? You can't tell the difference in real life between the way men talk to men and the way we talk to women - and vice versa? It may not be apparant when you are involved, but watch for this in the future, even when there's no romantic interest.
Sure I can, Roger. I have lived quite a bit of real life. A lot of subtext goes on between men and women face to face. Much of the time in memos, and much of the time online, you can tell by the words, the phrasing, who is a woman and who is a man, but not always, until the signature, unless you know them. And yes, if they know you are a woman, the phrasing directed to you may be different. What was the queston. are you thinking I don't hear this?
I see quite an effort to be courteous, or at least not completely deriding, here on a2k to both men and women from both men and women. And humor flows all around. And I see an effort to bridge all sorts of differences, all the time, from a lot of us. On the more confrontational forums, like politics - I see of course not that many women in the first place - but that some of the ones there are pretty good arguers, and that those who aren't do get various dumps re their posts. People are pretty nice to me when I venture an opinion, probably because they know it would take six days for me to formulate an answer.
I see - at least sometimes - the people others are caustic with as dishing it out themselves, and so there is some kind of caustic-jollies going on. Not all of those people are men.
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