Where are the grandads on Gransnet?

Germanshepherdsmum

I had assumed that Rameses was a woman so was a bit shocked to discover otherwise. Yes I know, I shouldn’t be but I would prefer that men had obviously male usernames.

Isn't Rameses a male name?

You must be getting on a bit now, Rameses so perhaps you'll bring great wisdom to GN.

Our Australian poster was very elderly and had visited hospital a few times and we never found out what happened to him.

Uh, gransnet. Not popsnet, not grandpa net. Maybe that might have something to do with it ? I don’t go to the mens’ shed, either. Just a thought.

The grim reaper seems to have carried off a few of us males (is it safe to use that word?) over the last couple of years
A lot of females too,grumppa

I had assumed that Rameses was a woman so was a bit shocked to discover otherwise. Yes I know, I shouldn’t be but I would prefer that men had obviously male usernames.

Rameses This is where the grandads are!
www.gransnet.com/forums/grandads_shed/1305873-Whoever-goes-first

Curlywhirly, Thankyou for replying about the missing Grandads, I rather liked Grandad 1943 ,he was quite an interesting character , he seemed to have a great deal of knowledge about the shop floor politics,shame if he was banned, maybe a step too far !! and Rufus was always fun with his stories of Oz ,

I think Grandad43 was banned and Rufus (from Australia) who signed off with Oru, just stopped posting (many GNs have mentioned their concern about what's happened to him). Mick as has been mentioned, still posts every day on the Good Morning thread.

There's Mick who faithfully starts off the Good morning thread at around 6am.

Rameses I thought from the name you were male as it made me think of Yul Brynner in 'The Ten Commandments'. ?

The last Grand dad who posted on GN most recently was called Standad (if I remember rightly), but he didn't come back after everyone tried to advise him not to ask for a sleepover with a nine year old.

We used to get posts from Mick. Grandad1943. And an Aussie bloke who always signed off with Oru , I wonder what’s happened to those Grandads. Are they all locked in their sheds!, Come back if you can. You are missed, well, by me anyway

Kittylester ???

My husband, a grandad to our daughter's five and one year old, often asks me what "the Grans" are talking about, or think about a certain topic.
With me to report though it wouldn't occur to him to read or comment for himself ?

Among my same age (70 -80s) friends, it is mostly the women who are active on social media. I think that is because they women mainly worked in admin or clerical jobs where they easily transferred from typewriters to computer keyboards, whereas the men were either building industry or management, with a secretary, clerkess or 'the wife' doing the invoices, letters, accounts etc. For those people now in their 50s and 60s who were working when computerisation was introduced to all aspects of work and life rather than only tasks of a clerical nature, the balance of male/female computer users evened out. When DD1 did a post grad degree in programming back in the 1990's she was one of only two females in the class' Computing had become a mainly male preserve.

kittylester

On gn obvs. The one I have at home is quite sufficient.

This reminded me of a card I saw yesterday. A woman was pictured with the caption 'I often dream of having two men at once. One cleaning and one fixing things'.

Sometimes a poster who has been posting on various subjects without mentioning whether they are male or female does let slip in passing something which reveals the truth. I have noticed about 8 or 10 regular posters who have done this - but I don't remember now who they were!

A few years ago there was a kind of census of GN members. I think that about 95% of those who voluntarily replied were female, so that makes about 5% male - perhaps the rest of the men were staying under the radar in case they were expected to cut the grass or put the bins out.

Agree that the site seems to be geared towards women. Guess most men don’t like engaging with on line chats anyway. Also those few known males have often been frightened off.

Think many handles do not suggest gender. There may be a few on here who do not wish to reveal that fact?

The grim reaper seems to have carried off a few of us males (is it safe to use that word?) over the last couple of years. I follow the political threads, and others of general interest, and contribute now and then, sometimes incurring the wrath of those who despise the patriarchy as a matter of principle.

Mostly, I try to inject some lightheartedness, following my favourite epitaph:-

Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, and now I know it.

Mind you, I did have a limerick deleted once.

The clue is in the name, Gransnet, which might put some Grandads off. Also, as someone pointed out, the demographic is older, and some members have sadly lost their partners.

On gn obvs. The one I have at home is quite sufficient.

I would guess that 99.9% of the members are women. It's an offshoot of Mumsnet after all. I would like to see more male contributors but I suspect the name of the forum alone, its logo and most of the content would deter men from joining. It does say in the small print that all are welcome but the name and logo suggest otherwise as do the general features.

Try reopening it Rameses.

It drives me nuts that people, who I assume are women, say *ladies' an awful lot.

I would love more men.

I've wondered about this too. I'm female and been on here many years.
I used to think it was because of the name of the site and if they changed that the Grandads would come flooding back.
Thank God I still have a husband and we have many disagreements. But when I cool down. I'm glad for his very different points of view.

Jaxjacky

There used to be a thread Grandad’s shed, not sure why it fell by the wayside.

It's still there and I've looked at. The most recent posting was in January this year (by a male) and, as far as one can tell from nicknames, every response was from a woman!