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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 35 of 202 12 April 2009 at 1:10am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
It got negative the minute somebody, can't remember who, responded to your original post saying that few women are drawn to intellectual endeavours in general. I offered a valid sociological analysis (which was far from rocket science) as to why this might be, and some guy responds with ridicule- as did you. I'm not 'making excuses' for not being a polyglot, as I don't even have children. I was merely pointing out the statistical reality that the majority of the world's women, above a certain age, will be spending a vast amount of time looking after children (as well as working in other jobs). Yes, there are some men who do this too but the numbers are negligible on a global scale. I don't see how anyone can argue with that point. Yes, there are plenty of female members on this forum, but I'd stake money on the probability that the vast majority of them are relatively young and without family ties. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| FrenchLanguage Senior Member Germany Joined 5738 days ago 122 posts - 135 votes | Message 37 of 202 12 April 2009 at 2:44am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Not sure if it has been mentioned before (and I wont go through 5 pages of posts only to look for it :-)), but I've heard about something with a community website (it was in a college class). The lecturer said it was totally surprising that 60% of the people on that community/social media website were males...which made me ask him if maybe it had something to do with the fact that men are simply more drawn towards technical stuff/internet stuff (of course many females use the internet, too these days, but I think men are in general still more "tech-savy" or well tech-geeky ;-) and likely to do things such as participate on internet forums...
that being said Ive only been around for a little while and have seen a decent number of female posters :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5917 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 38 of 202 12 April 2009 at 2:46am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I'm female.
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| robertdover8 Groupie United States Joined 6022 days ago 43 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 40 of 202 12 April 2009 at 3:50am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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"CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?"
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