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Why is it so? I think it has always been like this. however we have had more of them before.
weirdest experience in a universe where the ratio of women to men is some staggering 5:1 or so.

And of course more women here means more fun and fellowship, but not without the normal headache such presence brings.
 
Classik said:
Why is it so? I think it has always been like this. however we have had more of them before.
weirdest experience in a universe where the ratio of women to men is some staggering 5:1 or so.

And of course more women here means more fun and fellowship, but not without the normal headache such presence brings.
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Had a private conversation about this just a little while ago with one of our women. Seems they (at least some) haven't been made to feel as welcome here as they would have liked to have felt. (To put it in the nicest way possible.) However in the defense of non-women members, some women who have come here (not the one I talked too) have been less than friendly to the rest of our members as well. It's one of those vicious circle things I think.

On the other hand, there could be more women here than you realize. Not all screen names give away gender, not all members state their gender, and a lot of members forget to look or don't know where to look to see what gender a person may have claimed. I've seen several times when one member refers to another member as "he" or "him" and got corrected! :lol

But it's true. Compared to active, church going Christians in general I think we probably have a much lower percentage of women. In fact, I was listening to a pastor talk about this a while back and he had some study that had been done (I don't remember the reference to it) that showed that among active church going Christians the ratio of women to men was actually a bit higher; women outnumbered men!

Maybe some of our women members could give us some insight here as to why they think their Christian women friends don't join (or have joined then left).
 
I've seen some say that women in general seem to be more interested in emotional aspects of Christianity and guys tend to go for the more technical stuff. Most of our activity is in the debate forums.
I think that the idea that this is a natural gender thing is mostly bull, but we certainly are conditioned to believe it's the case and so women are less likely to be involved in this because of that conditioning. So most of the people who are knowledgeable enough to debate doctrine would end up being guys.

I may come across as a guy to those who don't know better? IDK. My avatar and interests could give that impression maybe. And so far as pronouns, you can call me a sandwich for all I care. I'll be like "yeah, that's me."
 
One possibility: Women are typically busy with family or household tasks, and generally do not have as much available time to be online.

Another possibility: Some men - definitely not all - show a disregard to the knowledge some women have in terms of Scripture. Every so often, someone will join CFnet for the sole purpose to tell all women that they are to be silent in church, that they are abominations for discussing Scripture with men on this forum.

Our membership roster does have a lengthy list of women. Some are here (sometimes in invisible mode) on a regular enough basis, sometimes without posting.... some are here occasionally, sometimes without posting. And then we have some women who are here on a regular basis and do post.
 
questdriven said:
I've seen some say that women in general seem to be more interested in emotional aspects of Christianity and guys tend to go for the more technical stuff. Most of our activity is in the debate forums.
I think that the idea that this is a natural gender thing is mostly bull, but we certainly are conditioned to believe it's the case and so women are less likely to be involved in this because of that conditioning. So most of the people who are knowledgeable enough to debate doctrine would end up being guys.

I may come across as a guy to those who don't know better? IDK. My avatar and interests could give that impression maybe. And so far as pronouns, you can call me a sandwich for all I care. I'll be like "yeah, that's me."
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Nah, you don't come across as a guy at all. Or if you did, you would have to be a VERY feminine guy! :lol But you might have a point about the emotional vs logical thing. And since religion is one of the biggest things people fight over and we allow that fighting here (within the rules of debate), what you are saying makes sense.

AirDancer said:
Another possibility: Some men - definitely not all - show a disregard to the knowledge some women have in terms of Scripture. Every so often, someone will join CFnet for the sole purpose to tell all women that they are to be silent in church, that they are abominations for discussing Scripture with men on this forum.
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And this is a very good point too. I've seen this happen so many times and have to bite my tongue so hard it HURTS! But when I start getting into it with these kinds I just get so mad at them I'm afraid I'll start saying things that will get me booted out of here! :angry
 
I dont even know who is man or woman here. Just one body of Christ I guess. I only know a couple from over time or from obvious pics or username.

I even got shamed last month when I said hey brother, and they be like, no its sister, and I be like, who cares we all one in Christ. Lol.
 
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Had a private conversation about this just a little while ago with one of our women. Seems they (at least some) haven't been made to feel as welcome here as they would have liked to have felt. (To put it in the nicest way possible.) However in the defense of non-women members, some women who have come here (not the one I talked too) have been less than friendly to the rest of our members as well. It's one of those vicious circle things I think.

On the other hand, there could be more women here than you realize. Not all screen names give away gender, not all members state their gender, and a lot of members forget to look or don't know where to look to see what gender a person may have claimed. I've seen several times when one member refers to another member as "he" or "him" and got corrected! :lol

But it's true. Compared to active, church going Christians in general I think we probably have a much lower percentage of women. In fact, I was listening to a pastor talk about this a while back and he had some study that had been done (I don't remember the reference to it) that showed that among active church going Christians the ratio of women to men was actually a bit higher; women outnumbered men!

Maybe some of our women members could give us some insight here as to why they think their Christian women friends don't join (or have joined then left).
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I had noticed some people who had come here looking for help or to share and have been ignored or overtaken by regular members posting.

One acturally made me a bit upset, I did not have the skills or knowledge to help but I knew others did, and some responces shocked me. I could feel that persons pain and they just wanted support but got none, then they left.
 
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