# Gender, race, and other issues (split off from Doper Demographics thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 7, 2022, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091 "2022-09-07T00:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091/32 "2022-09-06T17:15:38Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > ETA I think it’s more accurate to say that we started here as younger white men and over the past twenty years we hounded out all the women and people of color and now we’re old white men. You know, I keep seeing that posted, but never anything to back it up. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/61): > > There were a lot of threads in which women explicitly said why they were leaving. Cite? Especially the “lot”. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/54): > > I do get the impression that the board of some years ago was probably not a site I would have joined in the first place. It wasn’t that bad- _mostly._ The predecessor of FQ, etc were all fairly decent. But yeah, we had threads like “Who was hotter, MaryAnn or Ginger?”, and a woman complaining about their breasts or whatever, would get “pics or it didn’t happen” stupid joke or two. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/55): > > It was a place where rape jokes were the height of wit. Hardly. But they were allowed. > [@Doper Demographics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-demographics/970834/64): > > For instance, a woman would start a thread about finding a fitting bra, and you could bet there was a boob joke in the first or second reply Maybe not that early, but yes. Posters thought that was harmless fun, but not so much. it wasn’t done out of meanness. Message boards appeal to an older demographic. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-race-and-other-issues-split-off-from-doper-demographics-thread/971091)._