DandyDude

Okay, now no male is allowed to post ANYTHING in the "girls'" forum for any reason. Supposedly that will bring back women to posting there. Well, what kind of women post there, based on what I've seen so far of course? You have a woman who was a long ago poster emphatically saying that she would have nothing to do with men who wear heels. She also intimates that men who wear heels are NECESSARILLY trying to pose as women. While that may be true of some, now most apparently, of the posters here, it is not mechanistic.

I recall when the problems about that forum appeared to be getting to a head back awhile. There was a poster who kept insisting ALL men who wear heels want to be women. She took people's postings out of context, argued with quite a few, including me. I gave it back to her two for one. Some others agreed with me, while others practically encouraged her abuse and supplicated to her rantings.

The problems started when an influx of the gender crowd appeared on the boards. They started to post there and gradually took over the forum, driving the few real women away. They were given their own forum, but the seeds of division they had planted grew quite fast. That has been discussed many times elsewhere, and not only by me. It eventually led to the first of the "reforms", that all topics there had to be strictly about women, which was reasonable, if a bit stilting to the postings. After a few twists and turns, it got to the point it is now with no males allowed whatsoever on that forum.

Perhaps some of the women who posted here before will return. Would they be the kind who thinks all men who wear heels are budding trannies? I'm inclined to believe so. If so, is the male segment of this board so desperate that they would encourage abuse by women and for the sole purpose of keeping women on the board? As it appears a lot on this board are into forced transvestism/"feminisation," it would not suprise me in the least.

While the Stilettos Goddess herself, LHeels of course, had issues with men wearing heels, she fully admitted her contradictions, and was willing to engage in some dialogue with men. She is well missed by me. Great heels, and a bit of a brain as well, albeit a bit frustrated.

I believe I used the coffee klatch analogy first in terms of how women tend to see their forum. As I also said, men who wear heels have different issues such as gult feelings over liking heels. I do not see the influx of the gender crowd as being conducive to men's coming to terms with something that is really harmless, and I also see the extreme attacks on heel-wearing men by supposed women I think would be better served by the likes of style.com as having the same effects. Funny how the women on those more overtly female oriented boards are more likely to be willing to at least consider the idea of men in heels than on this supposedly sexually integrated one.

I know that I'm not the only one who wonders just how many of the shit-stirring female nyms who were here for awhile were actually men posing as women. Not posing as trannies, but posing as actual women.

Again, perhaps some women will post, perhaps not. Perhaps the forum will be taken over by poseurs, perhaps not. If women do post, will they be spouting the same old rubbish about heeled men being trannies de facto? Time will tell.

I now turn this topic over to any and all comments. Thank you.

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