Poll: How many straight birth-gendered females are on the Escapist?

[WOPR]

You know, if you read the first post you'd know that the OP doesnt want to know how many girls are on the site.

Unloaded Device specifically created the thread because he thinks there is a large number of gay women and transgender women on the site, so asking how many girls are on the site is totally worthless as all the gay women and the majority of the transgender women would just pick the female option, making the OP's poll worthless for what he wants to show.

Well, since straight women are obviously women. And lesbians are obviously women (unless we're counting Harry Partridge parodies), and Trans-women call themselves women (typically) how am I being exclusive? Unless of course you don't think non-cishet women are women.

Edit:

Just so we're clear, are you saying that acknowledging the existence of people in between and outside the two genders is a bad thing? The poll does take into account the typical two genders as well.

I don't see any inclusion of hermaphrodites or any of their varients. Just a bunch of [current year] malarkey hiding behind a shield of political correctness.

Are we seriously going this SJW that we can't just ask "How many girls use this site?" Man now I miss 2009 escapist.

You mean when the site was more friendly to LGBT women?

Are you sure you don't mean some other site?

No, I meant this site, back when it had more than just Zero Punctuation, a far more active forum, people who weren't terrified of the banhammer because Bob Chipman's feels we're forum rule yet... Ahh those were the days, back when we were able to openly discuss just about anything so long as we didn't excessively use a particular 6 letter slur for homosexuals, or post links to porn-games

 

[UnloadedDevice]

How in the flying fuck are you getting this from anything I am writing!? FUCK! This is just absolutely maddening.

Are you being serious?!

EDIT: Having to deal with this kind of absolutely mind-melting post is what I talk about when I say "aggressive and prejudiced debating". You are riling me up to no end by writing what you are, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT APPLY AT ALL.

[HEADING=2]Mod Voice[/HEADING]

s0denone, I understand completely you obviously have strong feelings about the topic, but if you're feeling wound up by what another user has posted, take a breather and come back to the thread later, or give it a pass. It's not worth getting aggressive towards other users for.

Stay calm and don't let this escalate into something it does not need to be.

Thanks!

 

[EternallyBored]

You know, if you read the first post you'd know that the OP doesnt want to know how many girls are on the site.

Unloaded Device specifically created the thread because he thinks there is a large number of gay women and transgender women on the site, so asking how many girls are on the site is totally worthless as all the gay women and the majority of the transgender women would just pick the female option, making the OP's poll worthless for what he wants to show.

Well, since straight women are obviously women. And lesbians are obviously women (unless we're counting Harry Partridge parodies), and Trans-women call themselves women (typically) how am I being exclusive? Unless of course you don't think non-cishet women are women.

Edit:

Just so we're clear, are you saying that acknowledging the existence of people in between and outside the two genders is a bad thing? The poll does take into account the typical two genders as well.

I don't see any inclusion of hermaphrodites or any of their varients. Just a bunch of [current year] malarkey hiding behind a shield of political correctness.

Are we seriously going this SJW that we can't just ask "How many girls use this site?" Man now I miss 2009 escapist.

You mean when the site was more friendly to LGBT women?

Are you sure you don't mean some other site?

No, I meant this site, back when it had more than just Zero Punctuation, a far more active forum, people who weren't terrified of the banhammer because Bob Chipman's feels we're forum rule yet... Ahh those were the days, back when we were able to openly discuss just about anything so long as we didn't excessively use a particular 6 letter slur for homosexuals, or post links to porn-games

It's not my topic, why don't you ask the OP why he wants to know specifically how many trans gender and gay women are on this site. If I had to guess I would imagine it's because the OP thinks there are more gay women and transgender women on the site than straight dis women, thus the poll.

So once again, whether or not gay or transgender women count as women is absolutely worthless, it's not what the OP wants to know, and you coming in here to whine about it makes as much sense coming into a thread polling the color of men's hair on the escapist to complain about, "they're all men why are we separating them into groups". Yes they're all women, but that's not what the OP wants to know, you being obtuse about it accomplishes little. I started lurking the escapist in 2010, there were polls asking about how many gay posters there we're and topics about transgender people, they also tended to get more replies since the forum was a lot busier than nowadays.

Actually given the bitching about identity politics going on, you seem to fit right in with the [current year] format of the escapist.

EDIT: especially since I didn't say anything about you being exclusionary, so see, you've even got the taking offense to imaginary insults thing down already.