BiG, and Forumites. If we are gonna divide ourselves into 2 factions based on gender (something that is totally inevitable in the forum of a niche fetish porn site aimed, just in a general way mind you, at gay chickenhawks with a slight schadenfreud bent) then I think we have to find a way to do that without filling certain threads with recriminations. I would tend to say it's healthier to find a way to recognize the fact that the new influx of very vocal women members has skewed the forum, neither for better nor for worse, just different, and that in a place like this, such a big shift will be noticed by some of the hitherto all male coterie. This attitude ought to square with the girls' outlook too. You don't think the forum is a "better place" than it was before you started posting do you? It's possibly there where the all male forum might have been more thoughtful in welcoming the influx when it took place: in paying lipservice to the rather insulting old American frontier wisdom that women are a civilizing force for good, we might have lost track of the fact that in a place like this they are something of an anomaly, a surprise.
If we could all be comfortable with that, and not become too stressed when individual forumites occasionally betray attitudes which conform to the clichés regarding their sex, we could be more like a slightly disfunctional family than like two warring factions. Embrace the differences. Embrace.
(BiG, I've got to know you through your posts. You are someone I read every time I see your byline on a comment. In the one quoted above it looks to me as if you've been proofed before publication: a pity since your honest mistakes are more lyrical than even lovelumps' effortless and beautifully constructed prose. And if lovelumps has you beat conceptually, just for that one phrase addressed to the guys who sent in entries to your photo competition, that you would "make it worth their wild", you live in my heart forever.)