Posted by alexandra_k on July 24, 2005, at 18:02:30
In reply to Re: gender differences, posted by henrietta on July 24, 2005, at 15:58:06
Hello Hen. Hmm. Hmmmmmmmm. I'll admit that I had similar thoughts shortly after I joined up to Babble. I think it was because I started spending a bit of time on the admin board. Actually... I'll admit that I left Babble and went back to a consumer run board and that fairly much was my initial assessment of Babble. Then that board folded and I came crawling back... I decided to avoid admin and just try and post and try and see whether I could get to know the posters here.
Because I felt like there were clicky little groups on Babble too. That you had to be part of one of those before you could really get a thread up off the ground. After some time... Jai reached out to me and I made my first Babble friend :-) Then others... Then conflict arises... And one finds ones way back to admin.
I don't know what to say really... Except that once one does start to feel accepted by the posters. To care about them. Then once conflict arises it can be hard. I really appreciate that here we can talk about it. I'd rather talk about it in the open than have to talk about it 'behind the scenes'. I don't know what to say. Maybe your assessment of posters would be different if you Babbled more to your friends :-)
Or maybe thats my sneaky way of encouraging you to come Babble with me over on social...
;-)
I'm not sure how many more females than males there are here... Maybe males tend to hang out on the main Babble board. Maybe males tend to post more to give / receive info. Maybe females tend to be more visible with lots of social chat. It has come up before about why there aren't more guys posting to the psychology board. A couple of guys jumped on the thread and I think they said it was because they have different issues in therapy. We talk a lot about transference etc etc. The guys seemed to be more in CBT and not have such strong transference responses. maybe females (typically) need a bit more of an emotional connection than males. Maybe that is why there are more females here. I don't know. Interesting...
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