The gender ratio at physical meetups, while still unbalanced, seems noticeably better than the visible gender ratio among active commenters on the Internet.
That part is perfectly predictable. Men are less deterred than women by lack of face-to-face contact in relationships. Film at eleven.
I may just be a strange person, but lack of face-to-face contact is a Feature for me, not a Bug. Simply put, I find it easier to connect to a person’s ideas and judge them on merit when my senses aren’t throwing in distracting tidbits that often make me want to run away (such as “he is looking at me funny” or “he smells bad”).
This is also the reason I prefer text to video blogs, emails to in-person meetings, and so on.
No no, I very explicitly do not hang out with the sort of people that elicit that sort of response. The problem is that the person eliciting it might not in fact be deserving of it, but I can’t get far enough to find out.
That part is perfectly predictable. Men are less deterred than women by lack of face-to-face contact in relationships. Film at eleven.
I may just be a strange person, but lack of face-to-face contact is a Feature for me, not a Bug. Simply put, I find it easier to connect to a person’s ideas and judge them on merit when my senses aren’t throwing in distracting tidbits that often make me want to run away (such as “he is looking at me funny” or “he smells bad”).
This is also the reason I prefer text to video blogs, emails to in-person meetings, and so on.
Those examples suggest you’re hanging out with entirely the wrong sort of people.
No no, I very explicitly do not hang out with the sort of people that elicit that sort of response. The problem is that the person eliciting it might not in fact be deserving of it, but I can’t get far enough to find out.
There were, I think, 7 OB men and no OB women at my OB meetup. (There were several women, but they had nothing to do with OB.)