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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Where have all the girls gone?
Over the last 6 months there has been a serious drop in the number of ladies online - good to see you back MissA., and I occasionally see Rachedid.
I myself have dropped off for a variety of reasons, including work pressures at time.
Granted there has been some unpleasantness earlier this hear from now long-banned posters who kept returning to troll under different names.
I see that Dream87 has been banned for what is just silliness, but it makes this site just plain dull as old topics are just rehashed
what are your thoughts?
I don't like it either, because only men posting old, dull topics, especially 'scan' and 'dr.'
I (my mum) live close to the big hospital area. Plastic surgeons are just across the street. However, I'm not sure how that works. Can they change the brain...too? I'm thinking, brain doesn't get changed, when 'tool' is different.?
My Kaifeng School received 'laowai hire authorization' last week. New WPermit and ILetter is next.
I can't wait, till I return to China. With few nights stop in Camden.
royceH:
Camden! Really? I'm going for a hit and run visit to a place just north of there later this week. South west Sydney, right? As you strike me as an interesting and seriously unusual chap perhaps we can meet up for a live conversation? I'll make the effort to get half a dozen drinks into myself beforehand so I'm a chance to be on your wavelength.
Waddiyareckon?
How do you find out that ppl have been banned? Perhaps that's what happened to that loony radical, Red Fox.
dongbeiren:
Click on the person's name and it links to something saying "you are not authorized to view this page". It seems that Dream (Vicky) has been banned again but surely will be back.
To be fair I don't remember there being many girls on this forum. Or maybe I just didn't realise they were girls.
Gone to husbands, everyone.
SOMEONE needs to brush up on their Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Foreign women never last long in China.
They have very few reasons to stick around unlike foreign males.
frankly i was surprised how many female board users there were, given that this is china.
I actually used to be a woman, so I might make crude comments at times, but deep down I have feelings too.
Just in general, I think there are fewer expat women than men in China.
Reasons (my guesses, theories if you want to be generous) :
Men tend to be more risk takers (perhaps cultural in origin), and moving to a foreign country is a big risk.
Dissatisfaction with life at home. Highly subjective, but according to Pew research http://www.pewglobal.org/2003/10/29/global-gender-gaps/ men tend to be less happy and satisfied (other surveys came to the same conclusion). When life sucks, you want a big change.
Cultural attitudes towards teachers. I worked at several American schools, and in each one, I was given the same lecture. As a male, I would be under constant scrutiny, and need to watch myself, because all men are assumed to be rapist pedophiles (sure, there are often stories in the news about female teachers who have sex with their teen students, but that's different. When men do it it, then it's rape. When women do it, then it's a love affair. The stereotype of male = sexual predator is big in the West), since it's impossible for a man to ever actually go into teaching because he has an interest in education and wants to teach. Nope. He must be some horrible subhuman sex addict.
Romantic attachments. Chinese men tend to go for non-Chinese women less often than Chinese women go for non-Chinese men... and that's a horse of another kettle of fish, so I'll leave it at that for now.
I think everyone just automatically assumes that everyone is a man (unless you can tell by the name or avatar). They always refer to me as 'he', but I am a she. *waves*
Thanks sorrel
I do still lurk around here sometimes.