Quote from: oda.krell on November 23, 2013, 07:41:42 PM

Quote from: ag@th0s on November 23, 2013, 04:43:10 PM

Quote from: oda.krell on November 23, 2013, 03:22:25 PM

You're a joke, OP.

Starting with a reasonable observation ("kinda unfriendly atmosphere for women") and then you nonchalantly let fly:

Quote from: nanobrain on November 21, 2013, 12:05:34 AM

And perhaps a few less "I'd fap her" and soft-porn images would stop the general tone that you are basically a bunch of bitter, middle-aged, sexually frustrated, misogynistic geeks.

Ergo: You're not one bit better than those you resent.

Fuck off. That's my professional, gender neutral opinion.

ftfy - with emphasis, in case you didn't understand the meaning of the full sentence.

Really? You want to play the exegesis game? okay, let's get back to complete OP's post...

Quote from: nanobrain on November 21, 2013, 12:05:34 AM

/sigh*/

Are there actually any other women here?

Everyday I wake up and check the posts on the Wall Thread and all that's gone before are (given the time zone) US men measuring their cocks and posturing (unfair generalization in absolute terms. factually incorrect: lots of posts other than posturing.). Really guys a Freudian would have field day with some of you. I appreciate speculating is a male dominated area but really...do you have to be so Neanderthal. (polemic remark/insult. hardly helpful in any discussion.)

I've been reading these forums since almost the beginning and fought the urge to join because internet forums tend to be frat houses in general but at least now I can press ignore on the massive flacid egos (sexual innuendo belittlement. kind of hypocritical in this context, huh?) like Walsoraj, Crumbs, Pannakke (do you even mine?) or TERA.

Since I've joined I've tried to be helpful and polite, offer some insight where possible (gosh can a noob know anything or be anything other than a spotty adolescent), tried to join in the back slapping, I've sent hopefully helpful PMs to people who have asked for information but most users don't reply and only a small percentage are actually polite - its as if your join date equals your social class. (completely unrelated rant about general unfriendliness. hardly a purely male domain.)

Yet, you want the rest of the world to adopt BTC - well, I've got some news guys...new people love being treated like dirt...us women especially...we find it such a winning business strategy. That comes in heavy irony tags for those of you a bit slow on emotional intelligence. (another genderist put-down. classy.)

The only positive from the last 8 hours of the above thread is seeing Chodpaba again....hurrah for a polite, sensible and considered voice - I wish you'd restart your Peak/Reversal Watch thread.

The rest of you - try respecting each other and especially newcomers - the world is watching you/us now, you/we are ambassadors for Bitcoin, try and behave like adults. And perhaps a few less "I'd fap her" and soft-porn images would stop the general tone that you are basically a bunch of bitter, middle-aged, sexually frustrated, misogynistic geeks. (my original quote. interesting format: ostensibly a conditional ("if you'd stop doing this, then..."), followed by a matter of fact claim about men ("basically" is the keyword here). it's another trash-talking remark, otherwise the phrasing doesn't make sense.)

Just a thought Kiss

Nan

PS.....and no I'm not a dyke, or not getting any etc etc...happilly married for 14 years.

tl;dr: It's the Internet, you should know how it works by now: the combination of a few real neckbeards, anonymity and teenage immaturity means there will always be some jerk posters. Doesn't mean you can't appeal to people, but accusing the predominantly male userbase of being more or less universally dicks isn't going to help your case.

Fine - beg to differ. I read the OP and found it entirely inoffensive (to me as a man) and substantially true. If bitcoin's devotees want to pretend that they're somehow different they need to behave like they're different, and they don't: the forum is not a welcoming place for women, particularly when they're told to "fuck of" for having the temerity to express an opinion. But then this is hardly new. As Rebecca West said at the beginning of the last century:

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.