Re: Men vs Women on Conlang

 --- Sally Caves skrzypszy:

> > Then there's the other situation: I'm a man, and I've never made a single
> > a posteriori language.  Never even been interested in trying.  Just
> > another datum for you all...
>
> Yeah, I'm with you there.  What's the point?  What's so "masculine" about a
> posteriori languages?  Or so "feminine" about a priori conlangs?
I never implied a posteriori conlanging is more "masculine" than a priori
conlanging, nor did I say that a priori conlanging is female business. All I
noticed is that in the field of a posteriori conlanging women are
underrepresented even more.

> As for gender and conlanging, I think that more men in 1990 had access to
> computers, but as that changes we'll see how many more women are drawn to a
> public display of their inventions.
Yes, I agree.

> Only recently have women wanted to go on-line and talk about their fantasy
> inventions to mostly men.  Mau, Camilla, Heather, Nicole, Mia, Irina, go for
> it.  Times are a-changin'.
Silvia Sotomayor, Amanda Babcock, Keolah, the other Nicole...

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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