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I've just re-read the post and realized that I wasn't the first... maybe I took so long editing my post that others got in ... dunno... anyway - I didn't see the post about not being allowed to post until after I'd posted....

So... to sum up.

I clicked an RSS Entry and went straight to a post, read a message, briefly looked at the existing responses and hit reply. I wouldn't have expected to be able to read (let alone post) in the ultra-secret-private women's forum - I'm used to systems preventing me.

So yes... I think you can't be too hard on the men. We tried to offer advice, not criticism, so it looks very accidental.

'tisn't hard at all to understand the request itself. What's harder to understand (especially for many aspies) is whether or not the request is legitimate or fair and whether one should comply. Now that this issue has had its time in the spotlight and the expectations are clearer, I think people will be more careful in the future.

Plus, I now know how to respond.

then there are those of us who posted that are probably being accused of being male based on the fact that we registered what are gender identity is, rather than what our physical gender is.

I'm not touching that one.

And what 'attitude' might that be?

Just because ya'll don't understand the reference to the burqua doesn't mean it's not relevant. Or is that such a PC, hot-button issue that you feel obliged to take umbrage?

The Islamic tradition of hadith concerning jilbab comes directly from the Qur'an, and describes the wearing of the burqua as a means of protection of women from the foul, lecherous, prying eyes of men:

This assumes of course that all men are dogs, and incapable of controlling their actions. It also assumes all women are wilting flowers who somehow need protection. The reason I posted pictures of burquas is because OP (and other 'wilting flowers'...) apparently see themselves as being somehow threatened by the mere presence of men in 'their' thread (not to mention the long streak of "control freak" evinced in certain posts, and the bizarre underlying assumption that XYs "shouldn't" even read XX's corner of the internet...).

"Get thee to a nunnery".

All the more reason that it doesn't make sense to make that area explicitly "women only," especially if it were based upon what is listed in one's profile.

I can read all corners of The Internets, even the places they cannot go.

(That picture was probably far too obscure for most to know where it is coming from. )

Members can't control who is allowed to respond to their posts.

Good, because if you called me a woman I'd have to beat you up. But that doesn't change the fact that i am one

What ... you mean the one from Dune?

It's difficult to see what it has to do with anything here but we know what the picture is.



wow... yikes... did you score high in the anger test thread...

There was a picture, and then there was text following it.