My Wife is here too but she just wants to lurk. There are probably far more women here than we would expect.
I wish Poal was more of a men's club.
I don't want women reading my poetry.
Ill ask her tomorrow. She probably likes your poetry.
Happy New Year Theo!
Anyone who likes my poetry is gay.
I am sorry if that affects your marriage.
But also, Happy New Year's to you too, Lev! I really do appreciate your postings!
I think that's how it works. I've been around since the 90s. I lurk or I'm noisy without people realizing I'm a chick. I remember running tremulous servers and a team speak server with it and having people flip out when I spoke. Geeky chicks fit in until our voices are heard or we are truly noisy about it (as I have been here and on voat).
She uses callsigns that are not obviously "woman" for a reason. Though, we pretty only voice-chat with people we already know so that has not been a issue.
When I was younger I did see that happening a lot though.
"OMGF, GIRL!!!!!" then everyone loses their minds for a few minutes. I don't get it. Sucks that you had to deal with that.
Meh. It taught me a lot. I'm very average looking. A solid 5 irl. I've always been a geek, playing with the turtle in the 80s etc, only had guy friends, everyone assumed I was a dyke before that was a thing. I played a lot of old school mmos and realized who I get along with.
The guys who lose it aren't worth your time as a chick. The ones who lose their shit saying you shouldn't be running the server are also not worth my time. I dunno. It's no different than voat or poal.
One of my best, closest friends I met on voat and he screamed tranny at me for all of an hour lol. My real best friend (he is a brother to me. Don't even know if he knows about Poal lol) is also from voat and I know we will never meet in real life but he was one who rolled his eyes and ignored the drama. There are expectations and there are women who show their tits and screetch...it's the Internet...