• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    12 hours ago

    I don’t like these only men / only women questions. Why don’t you judge an answer by if it’s well reasoned? You shouldn’t judge by if it’s coming from a person with a certain set of private parts.

    I mean there are exceptions. »How does it feel to be a woman? I’m interested in the woman perspective.« is a valid question. But I think if asking for broad concepts like in this case, it should be avoided.

    Regarding the OF creator question… I’m not sure. I’d date first and see if it’s a nice person before marrying. And live together for maybe half a year to assess if that’s working out. Basically the same as with any other person with regular hobbies/jobs. If that’s alright, everyone loves each other, enough boxes are ticked… I’d marry anyone. Disregarding if she’s a plumber, OF creator or computer science professor.

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      I understand why one would ask for “Only men or women” in questions about men or women.

      The person asking probably has their own assumptions, but wants to see how close they are to reality. If a man is under the assumption that women don’t poop (going with something silly here just for an example), and they get a bunch of responses from other men that are under the same assumption, they will all assume they are right and confirm the misinformation. Of course, some men will know the real answer, but when you have 50% of the comments saying yes, and 50% saying no, you aren’t any further ahead then you were to begin with.

      Aside from the inevitable joke responses (usually from me) if “only women plz” answer, you will get the correct answer, or at least a spectrum of opinions that you can get a general idea from.