Girls in forum?

[Dene]

I think Miss abbracadiabra has made it clear to all of us men out there: Women are a strange animal.

 

[hdskull]

Hahaha I see. I still can't see the pictures, maybe they are set on private.

Do you guys know what program was used for this?

Does anyone know ?

 

[K8]

heyyy, I have exactly the same photo!and exactly the same question with you...anyway, another girl here!

 

[ShadenSmith]

Don't men have evolution on their side? Men, being the hunter/gatherer gender have more developed visual/spacial intelligence due to evolution, thus giving them an advantage.

At least that's what I've always been told..please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[darkzelkova]

I think it is pretty even.

 

[cmhardw]

It has been proven though that women are, on average, better than men at tracking multiple indistinct moving objects amongst a group of objects that look exactly the same (thank you Exploratorium and US Nationals 2006) ;-)

So in theory women speedcubers should be able to "look ahead" better than men during F2L since the problem is made much easier as all pieces on the cube are distinct.

I think it would tie. Maybe men, on average, can visualize better than women, on average. But women, on average, should be able to track multiple F2L pieces better than men, on average.

I don't see a clear advantage to either side, and this is assuming there are strong differences in the visual/tracking abilities of men and women, for the average person. This may not even be true in the first place, which would mean people are fairly equal, on average, anyway.

Chris

 

[Schvetlana]

IM A GIRL!!!!

lol

 

[Sa967St]

IM A GIRL!!!!

lol

me toooooooooo

 

[Unknown.soul]

You people don't know what I am, for I am unknown.

 

[shelley]

I hardly think the fact that you're female was that important that you had to bump a 9 month old topic. Look at the dates before posting, please.

 

[masterofthebass]

I hardly think the fact that you're female was that important that you had to bump a 9 month old topic. Look at the dates before posting, please.

Hey... I'd rather have this than creating a duplicate thread. At least she was sensible and used the search function (or dug through threads to find a good one)

 

[pjk]

I don't see anything wrong with bumping an old thread.... new people have new opinions. Although the 'opinion' left here was kind of worthless, but still.

Like Dan said, I'd rather see an old topic bumped than a duplicate thread.

 

[Dene]

I vote for an automatic lock on threads with, say, 3 weeks since the last post. A request could be made to bring back an old thread.

 

[Neroflux]

I hardly think the fact that you're female was that important that you had to bump a 9 month old topic. Look at the dates before posting, please.

what's wrong with you? you've been harsh on random people all week long.

 

[pjk]

I vote for an automatic lock on threads with, say, 3 weeks since the last post. A request could be made to bring back an old thread.

Why do people hate when an old topic is bumped? What is wrong with it?

 

[shelley]

There's a reason this thread was dead for 9 months. It's not topical anymore. If someone had bumped this thread with a new discussion point or hypothesis on why they think there are so few girls on this forum, I wouldn't have minded so much. Simply announcing "I'm a girl!" adds nothing of value to the discussion and is something you can do in the introduction forum.

We used to tell people off when they bumped month old topics to answer questions that had already been answered. This is the same kind of thing.

 

[AvGalen]

What if the father/mother of Schvetlana and Sa967St followed this thread 9 months ago, just had daughters and this is there way to announce it?

Just in case that guess is actually correct (): Congratulations!

Seriously, I don't see anything wrong with bumping an old thread. If someone wants to tell everyone she is a girl, go right ahead and do so.

On a very serious note, could someone please explain to me when I should call a female a girl and when I should call her a woman?
Nobody calls a 30 year old man a boy, but I often say "girl" when "woman" would maybe be more appropriate. It is not as easy as > 18 years old is it? And girlfriend is obviously something different than woman friend, but is it weird when two 60 year olds call each other boyfriend/girlfriend?

 

[cmhardw]

On a very serious note, could someone please explain to me when I should call a female a girl and when I should call her a woman?
Nobody calls a 30 year old man a boy, but I often say "girl" when "woman" would maybe be more appropriate. It is not as easy as > 18 years old is it? And girlfriend is obviously something different than woman friend, but is it weird when two 60 year olds call each other boyfriend/girlfriend?

[temporary thread hijack]

Usually you hear "man" or "woman" for people who are over 18, or at least over 20 or 21. It's not too uncommon to hear "boy" or "girl" used in a flirtatious way when people are older, probably up to about 40 or so. Say if a 30 year old man comes up to a 30 year old woman and wants to be flirtatious there is at least a small chance he could say "hey girl" or something to that effect. As to the effectiveness of using this as your pickup line I won't get into that ;-) , but I don't think it would sound linguistically odd for English to hear that phrase in that context.

As to older people (over 60) I think the flirtatious part would mean it wouldn't be odd to hear "boy" or "girl" but people this old, if they are married, I think would tend to use standard terms of endearment like "honey" or something like that. At least that's why my grandparents do.

In short, call a woman a "girl" if you want to flirt with her and she knows you're flirting. If you call a woman a girl in a non-flirtatious situation she will most likely find it slightly insulting/offensive, as if you are looking down on her. However, I've met some women who find the term "girl" slightly downgrading or insulting in all situations. So if you plan to call a woman a girl you might want to make sure that she is also kind of flirty. At least that's how I see it.

[/ temporary thread hijack]

Chris

 

[AvGalen]

Summarized:
Below 18: Use girl whether I am flirting or not
18-40: Use girl when flirting, use woman when not ......... hypothetical
> 40: Use woman normally, honey when married, girl when flirting

I guess I was rightfully using girl all along

Thanks Chris! And a big "Hi girls" to girls of all ages on this forum

 

[Dene]

Mr van Galen: paedophile?