Grandad Many of the threads on GN are about "women's problems" and some women would prefer to discuss predominently female topics in the company of women only. Some others just prefer to chat with women. The vast majority of members are happy to chat to any congenial poster who doesn't constantly criticise them, and that is evident on most threads.
This is one of the few where on the surface there could appear to be conflict, but if you look a little deeper the conflict fades away.
When Rufus2 joined he was at first insistent that he wanted to talk to the men. He seems now to have become reconciled to talking to women and even appears to enjoy the experience, but he also enjoys winding them up with tongu-in-cheek anti-women pronouncements. Is he a misogynist? No, I don't think so, in fact I think he rather likes women, but he does disguise that with a bit of banter. That is what the posters are doing on here with what you see as humiliating their menfolk but those posting and most reading see as affection. What is more important, I suspect that if those men are aware of what is said about them they see it as affection too. They don't need you to defend them; they are not under attack.
