Women’s forum? We want your feedback – Page 4 – Bike Forum

Mark · 2009-02-20T15:40:06Z

After a thread last week that brought up the issue we've been discussing the issue in the office. Our very early thinking is that there's perhaps a need for a forum that deals with mountain biking issues relevant to women. The current forum is considered by some to be a somewhat intimidating place that can perhaps cause some people to lurk instead of posting as freely as they would like. We've had it suggested to us that if there was a women specific forum that many would be posters would be encouraged to get more involved. That's one issue for consideration. Now we don't really want to open up a discussion about it here on the forum although you are free to obviously but if you have ideas/opinions that you'd really like us to consider seriously then please email us at moderator@singletrackworld.com As food for thought our very early thought was that we'd create a new forum that was a place for women to predominantly discuss mountain bike issues with other women. Not a forum that excluded men but a forum where the topics discussed were restricted to issues relevant to women. It's a vague idea.. and ergo why we would really like your input too. We appreciate it may be a topic that encourages strong opinions and so we are throwing the idea out there to see what feedback we can gather. Over to you. :-)

BadlyWiredDog

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I can accept that some women find an all-female environment more supportive and a forum that caters for that need is fine by me. Whether STW is the best place for it, I don't really know. I suspect it'd sit slightly uneasily with the rest of the forum. There's a lot of sexist drivel on here, but then that's because the place is mostly populated by retarded internet nerds who haven't quite grasped that women are just people with minor biological differences. Perhaps it's time for them, the retarded nerds to have a dedicated forum of their own. We could call it Singletrackworld. Oh...

Posted : 24/02/2009 12:25 am

Mark

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Thanks for the input everyone. For now we are going to hold off introducing a womens' forum after reading the views here and on email. I'm going to unsticky this thread now but feel free to continue the discussion 🙂

Posted : 24/02/2009 1:06 pm

juan

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Well to be honest due to my size/shape weight, it's more useful for me to have ladies' opinions than blokes one...

Posted : 24/02/2009 1:25 pm

miketually

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10% of all posts should be from women on here

How do you know which posts are from women and which are from men? Often, you can tell from the name, but there are probably more women posting here than you think.

Posted : 24/02/2009 1:36 pm

mrsflash

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Well to be honest due to my size/shape weight, it's more useful for me to have ladies' opinions than blokes one...

yeah, we always new you were a big girl 😉

Posted : 24/02/2009 1:37 pm

juan

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Mrsflash I am not sure the adjective big is appropriate 😉

Posted : 24/02/2009 1:45 pm

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