Re: CHAT: poofs and yanks

Yoon Ha Lee sikayal:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Dan Jones scripsit:
> >
> > > I've just noticed, we've got loads of gay people [...].
> >
> > Indeed, in the early days of the list we discussed the theory that conlangers
> > tend to be gay, bearded, left-handed, or all three.
>
> And I just noticed that women seem to be outnumbered.  I'm slow, possibly
> because I get involved in things (math, RPGs, etc.) where women are
> generally outnumbered and I stopped registering the fact a long time
> ago.  :-p
Actually, the gender ratio on this list isn't terribly imbalanced, or at
least it doesn't seem so to me.  I haven't counted, though--does anyone
have the exact number?  Does anyone know the exact straight/gay ratio?
Interesting studies, those'd be.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"It is of the new things that men tire--of fashions and proposals and
improvements and change.  It is the old things that startle and
intoxicate.  It is the old things that are young."
-G.K. Chesterton _The Napoleon of Notting Hill_
Conlanger code: CLI> l%p+++ cS:R:N:H a++ y n18d:6 X+++ A-- E-- L-- N2.5
Idmp k++ ia-- p+ m++ o+++ P d++ b++ Yivríndil

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