Full disclosure: I am one of a group of 17 women (well now it's actually 19 but I haven't personally met 2 of the girls) who have been lurking at SBR and another gambling forum for over a year. We're all friends, we all love to gamble, and actually the majority of our group have been around here for 2yrs +. Some have registered and have never posted or post VERY rarely, some just operate in complete ninja stealth-mode and I am the only one who posts regularily from our group.
I hesitated ever posting at all, but I enjoyed what I was watching in LB's NBA thread and liked (as much as you can via the Internet) a core group of the people in there so I said stuff it, finally registered properly and here I am. Since I've been here, I've been bashed in threads (which I can totally handle unless you bring my son into the discussion which happened today) and have received disgusting PMs. I must admit though that for every crappy PM I've had, I've received triple the amount of decent ones so it's all good.
So obviously those in my group have basically written off the prospect of ever becoming a 'proper' member of this forum. Although 4 in my group consistently make enough money to not have to return to work so they can concentrate on raising their children, and maybe, I know it's a stretch, but maybe, have something worthwhile to contribute, they've closely watched my experience here and said "Hell NO".
We even meet twice a year (we're all spread out over the world thanks to work): once in Vegas and now in Macau, to spend a week gambling together on anything and everything. In fact, our Vegas trip is scheduled for a week before the SBR Bash and we were seriously contemplating extending it just so we could kind of silently take part and maybe meet the regulars on here if we felt comfortable enough. Obviously that idea has been scrapped now and the fact that I had mistakenly uploaded an actual picture of me from my desktop when I first signed up officially
means we probably wouldn't be able to go incognito for long.
So the question is: Why do y'all find it hard to believe that there are actually females who like to gamble, and heaven forbid, may actually be ok at it? Is it because stereotypically women claim not to like sports? For the record, you don't need to 'enjoy' watching a particular sport to be able to cap it at a winning percentage. And sometimes women claim to dislike sports because it's been drilled in their heads that it's neither feminine nor attractive to guys to be screaming at a tv screen.
We're all just baffled. Especially because it seems that for some on here the presence of more women on the forum would seriously increase the amount of female interaction they would have in a day. Or double it even! That would be a good thing, no?
And I highly suspect if we've been here for this long then there must be others who just aren't posting.
What's the story? (And please try not to be too jackarse-ish in your replies as I've had a bit of a rough day). Thanks.
I hesitated ever posting at all, but I enjoyed what I was watching in LB's NBA thread and liked (as much as you can via the Internet) a core group of the people in there so I said stuff it, finally registered properly and here I am. Since I've been here, I've been bashed in threads (which I can totally handle unless you bring my son into the discussion which happened today) and have received disgusting PMs. I must admit though that for every crappy PM I've had, I've received triple the amount of decent ones so it's all good.
So obviously those in my group have basically written off the prospect of ever becoming a 'proper' member of this forum. Although 4 in my group consistently make enough money to not have to return to work so they can concentrate on raising their children, and maybe, I know it's a stretch, but maybe, have something worthwhile to contribute, they've closely watched my experience here and said "Hell NO".
We even meet twice a year (we're all spread out over the world thanks to work): once in Vegas and now in Macau, to spend a week gambling together on anything and everything. In fact, our Vegas trip is scheduled for a week before the SBR Bash and we were seriously contemplating extending it just so we could kind of silently take part and maybe meet the regulars on here if we felt comfortable enough. Obviously that idea has been scrapped now and the fact that I had mistakenly uploaded an actual picture of me from my desktop when I first signed up officially
means we probably wouldn't be able to go incognito for long. So the question is: Why do y'all find it hard to believe that there are actually females who like to gamble, and heaven forbid, may actually be ok at it? Is it because stereotypically women claim not to like sports? For the record, you don't need to 'enjoy' watching a particular sport to be able to cap it at a winning percentage. And sometimes women claim to dislike sports because it's been drilled in their heads that it's neither feminine nor attractive to guys to be screaming at a tv screen.
We're all just baffled. Especially because it seems that for some on here the presence of more women on the forum would seriously increase the amount of female interaction they would have in a day. Or double it even! That would be a good thing, no?
And I highly suspect if we've been here for this long then there must be others who just aren't posting.
What's the story? (And please try not to be too jackarse-ish in your replies as I've had a bit of a rough day). Thanks.
I know. That's the collective work of 9 different women via MSN. I suggested shortening it - but majority rules. And you know how stubborn women can be! 
