PUNdit:
By ‘lower forums’, considering GQ the SD-thematic forum, I meant the three, GD, MPSIMS and the Pit – those GQ threads degenerate to qualification for, as a result of posters’ off-theme habits. I practically never check these. As far as my. . .uh. . .non-PC implication, I guess GD is not relevent to it. I spent some there this time, in order to size up someone. I was referring to the gender distribution of the participant posters, not the moderators.
As far as my take on the subject, it is not as you say; it is my impression that another of women with interesting questions often lurk in GQ and a few test the waters with a question, but then, I think they see the general gist of where things go here, together with what goes on with the women that hang here. . .and then scoot for a rather different environment.
The fact of my recent dances with ladies in two different fora was mostly, of course, due to two of them nosing around to carry my earlier complaints against widespread obnoxious behavior within their professions, primarily by males, into cumulative support for any of their co-gendered combatants (?) whom might be taking flak (?) from me.
I guess I was not nice, in mixing humor with a mild sense of annoyance from TubaDiva’s casual reference to Netscape’s likely being the cause of a conflict in an interim glitch in an SD UBB modification – to the extent that it couldn’t be determined how strong my objection was. The background of that annoyance is the rampant buck-passing responses one gets these days from software-outfit tech-support personnel, who are anywhere from totally non-technical to mildly so. Tuba’s tangent remark was not a hard U-turn sign, just something that seemed like the beginnings of a habit that shouldn’t get started in that cubicle.
My comments and data on professions’ systematic incivilities toward the public are all basically grounded on their inherent gangsterism. I’ll have to admit that “my panties’ wad” sees a bit of the same kind of gangsterism in the busybody expressioons dished around in multiple threads and forums, by members of the wad-plagued set, upon my feigned outburst to Tuba. Of course, since then, we have witnessed far more gang-support behavior here from male posters. Hey, I thought SDers were supposed to be individuals, even ones not easily threatened by positions taken by those who are not doctors, lawyers, writers, and all the other word-oriented analyzers from the other side of campus.
I’m a little shocked by the large number of (now be nice) briefers hangin out here. I’m also amazed that one MD (albeit one somewhat atypical) has managed to stick out for a bit). Usually, MDs don’t like to swarm with the hoi polloi without all their props carefully in place. (Heehee: Wait till the AMA and DOD (not to mention los paseños latinos del Río Bravo) see that “steekin’” comment captured in the archives here. 
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Ray (No offense to Elmer, but some posts here indicate that the “pleasant” here is passed by in ennui. (That last word was for Chief Wigwam – to keep his wig wa’m. Sorry.))