Can someone explain to me, please, why...

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

There's one thing with I can't understand.

This forum is near totally all-male. We have just a handful female posters. Right now from memory (and remember, I'm here only from July) I can name TexasGurs or PoliticalChick (and Annie, but she unfortunatelly took a leave).

That's strange a bit. Any ideas?

[Lunar]

it's because girls don't like losers

but in actuality, a politics forum is like a military forum

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Sexism, Rating Hot Babes, Vulgar Language, pre-pubescent Boys, Horny Teenage Boys, Grump Old Men?

Now that stuff, granted, should attract women, but it doesn't ......go figure.  

[Aizen]

Why are you surprised? Have you been to other forums? (Not a Hello-Kitty forum)

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Why are you surprised? Have you been to other forums? (Not a Hello-Kitty forum)

Maybe Polish women go for a place like this, Aizen......

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Why are you surprised? Have you been to other forums? (Not a Hello-Kitty forum)

Maybe Polish women go for a place like this, Aizen......

Actually, Polish political forums (which are mostly sucks, and that's the reason I prefer foreign forum) have more percentage of female posters.

[phk]

Because of presentation.

This is primarily a site about maps and statistics/numbers (which are things girls aren't as interested in as guys are).

You can see this manifest in other sites with a similar focus in other fields (like forums related to video game sales or finance) and the political junkies here are relatively hardcore and not mainstream.  Politics at that level is more or less a male field of interest like computer science, video games, body building.

A lot of us have at least an autistic cognitive style which is more rare in females.

You want a more balanced ratio than go on a site like essembly.com which is more like a social network.

I think if we could theoretically graph out interest in politics by gender, girls would be a left-skewed bell-curve shape, while guys would be right-skewed and have greater variance.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I asked me the same question...

[The Mikado]

As pointed out above, it's not the political angle, it's the statistics angle.  What self-respecting woman would hang around a bunch of geeky guys discussing "uniform swings," "the Shy Tory effect," "the major air hub theory," "the Age Wave," and whether Rasmussen gets better GOP samples on weekend polling?  Aside from BeccaM, we haven't had a female poster participate in the "content-heavy" boards in quite some time.  (Not that I blame them: the content-heavy boards tend to be dominated by hacks like pbrower and nkpatel or lunatics like Libertas)

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Yep, maybe that is the statistical angle dunno, boys use to like maps more than girls, that's true (yeah, the territory, or something...).

Anyways, from my own experience, girls are more present is some other political forums which have less political geeks than here, more "normal" discussion, less "technical" maybe.

Dunno, whether that's something good or bad, that girls are more or less present. Where they are more present, it can easily play on guys and thus on the debate, guys may become less frank, trying to 'get the females with him', and females can also let them fall in this too, that may be an advantage for debates that here there are not that much, dunno...

Anyways, seems more punchy here than on other forum i know, and that's part of things i keep going here i guess, among others...

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Rin-chan - although I haven't seen her in a while.