tickledorange
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We're getting closer to my life vision of fenced-off areas and designated t-shirt colors. 😀
Lets not seperate ourselves' from one another.
LindyHopper said:What's stopping some guy from registering an account using the screenname of a verified TMF female? How can you be sure that the person who registers as "isabeau," "lk70," or anyone else is actually her? And what if the woman who's name got borrowed doesn't happen to get an account or visit the girls' only forum, so no one ever recognizes what's happened?
It seems to me like the process of verifying that someone is female before allowing them to register is not only impossible, but might actually encourage jerks to borrow the identities of actual women in order to circumvent it.
I think it's fine to have a women-only forum, and state that only women should visit or post there. But I think it's disingenuous to claim that it's truly a women-only environment, when you can't conclusively make sure that that's the case.
But that's the nature of the problem: if you want a board with people on it, you have to make it known. Otherwise, all you have is the few people you've met in person so you know they're female... and in that case you could've just said whatever you wanted to say in PM.The Sean Man said:This thread is only going to increase the odds of some weirdos sneaking in under another name. It should have been done on PM basis, girls contacting girls instead of revealing it out in the open. Best of luck with it though.
I've correctly verified the gender of 5 males trying to get on our forum. They have been denied. I would rather not share my ways of finding out their gender on here and comprimising the "security" of our forum, so we'll leave it as that. Any female is welcome to sign up, new or old to the TMF, but if we find out that they're not female, they will be denied and/or banned. I screen everyone before they are able to post. Also, the forum is only viewable to members, and we have a forum in there viewable only with passwords by the more confirmed females. Anything said in there is definately private. We have that for the women who have things to say and need to know it is kept private.LindyHopper said:But that's the nature of the problem: if you want a board with people on it, you have to make it known. Otherwise, all you have is the few people you've met in person so you know they're female... and in that case you could've just said whatever you wanted to say in PM.
I don't think a female-only "secret society" is in anyone's best interests - it's exclusionary even to other women, the ones who are new and/or haven't shown their faces at events to "prove" that they're female. So have a female-interest forum, just be realistic about the fact that gender can't truly be verified, so you can't keep men out.
tickler_n_black said:How about a guys only 'secret society' forum too?
GirlsDoItToo said:they think that they're all having an orgy or something?
MTP Jeff said:You're saying that's not what's going on? I've suddenly lost all interest in this...
GirlsDoItToo said:Don't get your guys' hopes up yet. We're here, we're queer.... wait, wrong one!
And it's funny, with so many of the guys on here thinking it's a stupid idea, childish, or whatever, we've had a good amount of attempts of males trying to get on. Why? I do not know. Why would a guy want to be on our forum? ?
GirlsDoItToo said:Is it that 10th grade mentality that guys have when they know a lot of girls are in one area they think that they're all having an orgy or something?
tickler_n_black said:How about a guys only 'secret society' forum too?
That's a great way to put it.GirlsDoItToo said:Think of it as a realtionship between two people. The time together may be great, but sometimes both sides just like some time to themselves. Our forum is that time to ourselves.
Iggy pop said:Why? What the hell are we going to talk about that we can't talk about right here?
LoL. I'd love to see that said WITH the women here. lol.tickler_n_black said:Um, which women on the forum we don't like? Haha!
Um, erectile disfunction?
Um, which women on the forum do not look anything like the cartoon character in their signature...
GirlsDoItToo said:LoL. I'd love to see that said WITH the women here. lol.
simulated said:In before it turns out that "girlsdoittoo" is actually a man posing as a woman. Now, I'm not entirely sure, really, but seeing as the account has only been active since 8/15 of this year, and factoring in both that this is the internet and the entire profile/posting style seems to be saying "hey guys, I'm a girl," I'd give it 70/30 odds.
*shrug*
Furthermore, what exactly are you going to accomplish by having a forum that's purported to be "women only" splayed across a forum where the vast majority of the several thousand visitors a day are, quite literally, simply here to get their rocks off? It seems a tad counterintuitive to me that you have a link posted everywhere to this forum, and yet you keep on talking about how ONLY WOMEN ARE ALLOWED TO JOIN NO BOYS ALLOWED. Now, we all know girls have cooties, but if I didn't care about that I could put together an identity for myself, register for your forum, and post in there pretending to be a woman. I can guarantee you right now that there are people who have cared that much, and that many of those posting there are, in fact, men who have created identities of women. Say what you will about your super duper ultra sophisticated guy detection system, if I wanted to I could get access to your forum. Perhaps someday I'll be bored enough to carry through with that.
Which brings me back to my point, that being, what is the point? Is it solely there to titillate the men of the forum with thoughts of a forum where, instead of twenty threads entitled "orgasms while tickling?" you have a different forum with twenty threads entitled "orgasms while tickling?" populated entirely by beautiful nymphomaniac blondes
I understand that there are creepy men out there. I have met many of them personally. However, I will say, with no judgement on whether its right or wrong, that if you register on a fetish message board with a feminine handle and posting manner, you're pretty much guaranteed to have millions of somewhat creepy guys trying to message you, talk to you, etc. And while I guess it sounds a bit like the "you pretty much asked him to rape you by the way you dressed" argument, it does hold a bit of truth that, well, you probably should have known better than to name yourself "cutetklishgirl3542" if you're worried about guys talking to you.
And finally, if you really have something that you just want to ask women, why not PM one of the many who use this site? All of the same helpful advice with noticeably less voyeurism!
GirlsDoItToo said:So maybe you're just getting all upset over a site that has NOTHING to do with you directly or indirectly! Get over it and move on.
Exactly!The Sean Man said:Here HERE! Let the ladies have their night out....break out the tickling vids and beers boys...it's STAG NIGHT! WOO HOO