Females Outnumber Males Online 299
westcoaster004 writes "In news which may surprise some Slashdot users, females have been found to outnumber males online in the U.S. according to a report, and for some time. The statistics for Canadians show a slightly greater number of male users."
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Please mod me -1, Spelling Nazi... (Score:3, Funny)
What this actually means... (Score:5, Funny)
On the internet... (Score:5, Funny)
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That statement makes me wonder which one you were--the deceiver or the deceived.
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Those are not mutually exclusive.
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Sweetheart: I am wearing a red silk blouse, a miniskirt and high heels. I work out every day, I'm toned and perfect. My measurements are 36-24-36. What do you look like?
Wellhung: I'm 6'3" and about 250 pounds.I wear glasses and I have on a pair of blue sweat pants I just bought from Walmart.I'm also wearing a T-shirt with a few spots of barbecue sauce on it from dinner...it smells funny.
Sweetheart: I want you.Would you like to screw me?
Wellhung: OK
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You gotta be real careful about that...
Some of those little girls actually are little girls. You go in there looking to fuck with some FBI agent's head just for fun, and you may run into a real little girl. And then she will seriously fuck with your head. Just for fun.
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Less exercise I can see (although those of us who don't enjoy sports don't get much excercise outside the gym anyway). But I am completely lost when trying to figure out how you associate being online with obsessions and diet. If anything, the internet is filled with loads of good information to help you avoid a complex or plan a good diet.
You make it sound like being online is unhealthy. In my
Definition (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's a definition Comic book guy! (Score:2)
Yup, most slashdotters have a problem defining it. I'll define it as "someone who has different stuff than you between their legs" and leave you to ponder what it possibly might look like;)
Age distribution? (Score:5, Funny)
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Teens. They will be the death of our society! Mark my words! Create something cool.. but don't invite the teens!
Can we go back to downloading blueprints to the enterprise?
sri
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Damn! All this time I was downloading plans of the Enterprise and you had plans to get to the real one?
Got a link?
I hate myspace... (Score:2)
[RANT]
Okay, we start with bbsing, local, community oriented... Actual get togethers, regular parties, etc... then the early internet, IRC, ICQ, and AOL a little more remote and disconnected, but still some actual community and real people, generally those you already know in real lif
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And just how is this funny? Granny is no less a woman with her knitting needles than the young, hot, smoking blond of the average slashdotter's hopeless fantasies and probably has more sex than the average slashdotter anyway (with any being more than none).
And why isn't Granpa online and Granny is? Is Granny smarter than Granpa? Was Granny more able to adapt to online culture better? Why? Isn't it enough that she is able to search, navigate, compare, order and pay for her purchases? Isn't it enough that now she talks to her grandchildren every week through IM or email than never with snail mail and not being able to afford cross-country visits?
The fact that she is able to make use of the internet to improve or enjoy her life isn't enough? Granny has to be a programer, 3l33t haxor, network admin and security expert too? Does Granny have to be Uber Elder Geek to be counted as an online personage?
For people who are supposed to be geeks, you and the people who modded you up seem to be awfully narrow minded. Tech is not for just the people you think are worthy enough to be counted.
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Brava! My mom (a granny eight times over) took up computing for the very reasons the OP chose to denigrate: family communications and yes, knitting patterns. Our favorite is Knitty [slashdot.org] because of its "open source" policy.
Her latest project has been to dub all of the family home movies to DVD's, first for archival purposes, and now she's editing them down to the funniest moments by theme and/or subject, and dubbing music tracks over them.
While visiting my sister in New York, one of her teenage grandso
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But slashdotters have no one to blame but themselves if this is the case--how many of you worked to get your moms on-line so you could email pictures of the grandkids?
Personally, I think many women are attracted to the internet because of the social interaction: email, texting, shopping, etc. The stereotypical int
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When you no longer feel compelled to assign a gender and race to a person for anything about that person, you also might find yourself not assuming things about this person. For anything about a specific person that you do not know, would you subconsciously start to fill the knowledge gap by drawing what you don't know from a stereotype?
Try this...(and only as an experiment), for people you don't know that you come across in your day (people on the street, customers at your business, customers over the phone, etc), try and guess what kind of music they like. Use whatever information you have about them to discern their music tastes (obviously without clueing them in that your doing this). But after you've made your guess, write down their seen (or perceived over the phone) skin color, gender, and music preference you came up with. You will probably want to keep this list of yours out of sight, or in a password protected word document or something. Spreadsheet maybe?
At the end of a few days, go through your list and first divide people up by gender, and group the males together, and the female together. For each gender, make a subgroup for each race (whites, blacks, asians, etc.). After that, go through and write down the different kinds of music you assigned (Country, rap, gospel, etc), and then after that, go back and tally up how many black males like X, or how many white females like Y, and so on. I'm almost certain that one music taste in particular will have a majority in each group. Like you might see that you have far more black females listening to gospel than any other kind of music in that group.
You now have a successfully stereotyped gender and race bias for music tastes. You have asked no one what they actually like, just what you think they would like to listen to. Since you didn't actually ask anyone what they liked, your list is probably highly inaccurate. But because you took the time to classify these people according to their gender and race, and then see what music they liked, you have willfully imposed a condition that requires you to discriminate based on race and gender. Should you do this test, you might conclude that had you not first identified their race and gender, your assumptions about their music tastes would be absolutely anyone's wild guess, because without their race and gender, you know nothing about that person, including their music tastes.
Since you didn't have any actual information, how did you have any faith in your guess even being remotely close to accurate? What gave you any confidence in your judgment? Since you had no information about a person, you had to have taken some of your guesswork from a preconceived notion of what you learned in life. For example, you probably were not consciously aware of it, but you limited all the possible types of music a person could enjoy, from what people of that race and gender you know already like. I bet your list will not have these entries...
And you are probably thinking that those music tastes are absurd for those people, but do you think this because you have never heard or known an asian female to like salsa, a black male to like yodeling, or a hispanic male to like polish folk? Or do
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Obviously you've never heard the wonder of Norteno being blasted at seven in the morning on a Saturday. I'd venture that the two are not so dissimilar.
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I wonder what catagory I fit in?
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My aim in my previous post, was not "these kinds of people won't like this kind of music." That would be stereotypical of me, and I don't believe it to be true. My aim was to show that given no information, someone who was trying to guess another person's music tastes using only their race and gender would likely avoid linking, for example, a hispanic male with Polish folk.
I was trying to point out that since this made up list of ours is complete conjecture, we only have our stereotypes to look to when we try to label people. Because we are drawing our guesses from a stereotype, we're not going to put on the list something that doesn't match a stereotype.
I wrote what I did in my previous post, not to encourage, but to show the huge flaw in trying to categorize people when you don't actually know anything about them. I posted what I did to help people realize that labeling people is a bad practice, and I understand that the great grandparent post might have been sarcastic, but I think that if my reply helps just one person avoid prejudices, then it was worth my time to write it.
I must also say, that I'm not perfect and sometimes I find myself being prejudiced too. I try to stop myself when I catch it, but I make mistakes as well. I don't want anyone to feel that I'm trying to talk down to them. I don't want anyone to feel that I believe myself to be better than them.
I hope that better explains my post
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"The statistics for Canadians show a slightly greater number of male users."
THis is compensated by a surprising number of sheep.
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http://www.cafepress.com/piggywig/2318364 [cafepress.com]
But here in New Zealand (Score:2)
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Did they mean..... (Score:4, Funny)
Fixed
Why does this remind me of an old IRC saying.....
"Welcome to IRC, where the Men are Men, the Women are Men, and the 14 Year Old Girls are FBI Agents"
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Not supprising (Score:5, Interesting)
Males, on the other hand, like to play with stuff, build stuff, etc. Maybe the internet isn't that appealing to that crowd in the same way. Or maybe it is, but males actually get "done" with the internet, just like we usually finish a phone call in one minute, and go on to do something else instead.
Of course, that doesn't mean that there are more female hackers than male - hackers are people who use internet (and computers in general) to build stuff, and more males want to build stuff than females, and thus, there should be more male hackers than females.
"females have been found... (Score:3, Funny)
And I still can't find a date!
Posting as AC because I'm embarrased as hell.
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Neither can I, and I'm fucking proud of it.
This is Slashdot. The only thing to be embarrassed about here is poor spelling.
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Running windows is acceptable, as long as it's only begrudgingly and to play games.
Article summary in case the link goes down... (Score:3, Funny)
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OMG ponies !
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Taco, looks like it's time to bring back the pink css theme.
Females have more 'home' time on average (Score:4, Insightful)
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its not like the audience here really deserves proof reading.
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Everywhere else: 1%
I knew it.... (Score:2, Funny)
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Plus if it was Canadian we'd get a lot more hockey related stories and comments
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Plus if it was Canadian we'd get a lot more hockey related stories and comments
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Why is this surprising? (Score:5, Insightful)
2: Women are more likely to attend college than men. Virtually all college students are required to use the internet while they are there, and at least some will keep up the habit later.
3: Women are more likely to have desk jobs or other indoor jobs, which again often exposes them to the internet.
That being said, I think time spent on the internet is a much greater measure. I bet men spend far more time on the internet than women, despite the apparent data that says women dabble with it more often.
Re:Why is this surprising? (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, jokes aside, I don't know about you guys(girls?) but I probably have as many, if not more female friends online than males. Obviously, all of the male geeks are online, but not all of the rest of the guys. On the other side, almost all of the females are online.
TFA doesn't say what "online" means (unless I'm dumb and missed it), so that kind of makes this entire discussion moot. Online gaming? Social Networking? Email? Internet Browsing? Voip? Online shopping? Without breaking that down by activity, that's kinda almost like a really, really expensive way to find out that there are more women then men.
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I believe the standard was any contact with any sort of internet activity at all at least once in the last 30 days. Spending 5 minutes online, checking a single web page, just to see a picture of Britney Spears bald, three weeks ago, from a computer at a friend's house, would qualify.
It's tempting to say that males are going to still solidly hold the lead on total cumulative hours on the internet, but remember... for every guy sitting here on Slashdot for some obscene number o
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This reminds me of my 12 year old neice who sites on MSN for hours at a time jibba-jabbin to her friends, whilst her brother would rather watch Hockey on TV.
This is good news for those people who've recently been ranting about there not being enough [meganmcdermott.com] women [mezzoblue.com] in web design [burningbird.net], and trying to work out the reasons why. With more women now online than men, the balance will hopefully be redressed (when that generation gets off MSN and wants to do something useful with their lives).
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Facebook/Myspace's fault (Score:4, Funny)
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There may be more women than men. (Score:5, Funny)
As a Canadian... (Score:4, Funny)
Still, the cat is out of the bag. We have large and sparsely populated country. By government mandate we are attempting to increase our populace by going online and luring the ladies to our glacial climate via online dating services!
This throws a wrench into our grand plan of luring the likes of nubile young women like "cuteie332" "betty22" and "chicky_54" here so we can increase our populace and dominate the earth with our floppy heads!
--- I need more coffee...
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'women online' on web sites (Score:2)
Simple (Score:4, Funny)
female what? male what? (Score:3, Funny)
We've known this all along... (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry couldn't resist
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Spoken like a true arrogant netgeek lardass male.
Lies!! (Score:2)
To be more relevant (Score:2)
Of course women outnumber men on-line. (Score:4, Funny)
Lots of Forums For Girls (Score:2)
In related news.. (Score:2, Funny)
What is the surprise? (Score:3, Insightful)
happy now? (Score:2)
I am not.
Well, I am online a lot... (Score:3)
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A few choice ones:
#24: Pics or it never happened.
#26: Nobody knows the answer to "What is love?".
#29: Barrel Rolls can evade anything.
#32: There is a market for any kind of porn.
#34: There is porn of it, no exceptions.
#37: There are no girls on the internet.
#50: If you die in the game, you die for real.
#52: Developers, developers, developers, developers.
#54: Snape killed dumbledore.
#55: "Winner" is actually spelled "WinRar"
#65: You will be reported to AOL if you steal pictures.
#71: If you fap to it and acheive orgasm, you must tell everyone.
#72: Everything on eBaumsworld is stolen. No exceptions.
#73: Believe everything you read on the internet.
#75: There is always a female version of a male character. No exceptions.
#76: Duke Nukem Forever must never be released or the whole of the interent will collapse.
#78: It's been cracked and pirated. No exceptions.
#82: Upgrading someone's RAM is a sign of goodwill.
#87: If you would have sex with it, let everyone know.
God damn I spend too much time on 4chan.
Male & female porn (Score:5, Insightful)
I disagree. Most visual porn (an overwhelming majority) is targeted towards straight men, this is true. But to most women, good porn is a trashy romance novel, not a playboy. And if you've ever looked at the "romantic fiction" online, you'll see a pretty good number written by women.
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"Can you come here and pick this up for me?"
That's the kind of thing you wanted, right?
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